1. Higher Education in the 21st century must be inclusive; it should be available to and affordable for all who can benefit from and want a college education. 
2. The curriculum for a quality 21st century higher education must be broad and diverse. 

3. Quality higher education in the 21st century will require a sufficient investment in excellent faculty who have the academic freedom, terms of employment, and institutional support needed   to do state-of-the-art professional work.
4. Quality higher education in the 21st century should incorporate technology in ways that expand opportunity and maintain quality.
5. Quality education in the 21st century will require the pursuit of real efficiencies and the avoidance of false economies.
6. Quality higher education in the 21st century will require substantially more public investment over current levels.
7. Quality higher education in the 21st century cannot be measured by a standardized, simplistic set of metrics.