I think people are cautious, but I think caution is different from resistance. Universities are slow to change. ... I think there is an institutional crisis when a new field emerges and comes into its own.

That's my motivation in doing it, that this is something that is really going to serve the students at Penn and that they're excited about it.

Students need to know about classes in this field; there needs to be a place to go and find out about these kind of classes.