Charles W. Steger, president of Virginia Tech, has spent more than a week responding to the April 16 shootings on his campus in which a student gunman killed 32 students and faculty members before taking his own life. No other college leader has had to confront a massacre of that scale.
In an interview with The Chronicle on Wednesday, Mr. Steger talked about the role of a president in a crisis of such magnitude, how he wants Virginia Tech and other institutions to learn from the external and internal reviews being conducted, and how he is trying to move the university forward.