An HSI is not a label. It is a promise. And I believe the students sitting in those lecture halls deserve to feel that promise kept - not in the brochure, but in the room.

You do not develop grit at a leadership retreat. You develop it at the kitchen table, watching your mother calculate whether there is enough money for groceries and rent in the same month.

The question was never whether 25 percent is the right number. The question was always whether the institution would treat that number as an obligation or an opportunity.

Every September, America sets aside thirty days for my heritage. I have spent my whole life wondering whether thirty days is an act of honor or an act of containment.