This lecture decries the lack of any real sense of community in the modern university. It argues that the fundamental difficulty of creating a greater sense of community in higher education institutions is a problem of values. Competitiveness and materialism are emphasized more than those values that support and nurture a sense of community. There is an undervaluing of "good colleagueship," a phrase meant to communicate the extent to which one faculty member can positively influence another. A survey of over 400 institutions of higher education revealed great variation in the priority they gave to developing a sense of community among students and faculty. Consideration is given to understanding why, among the 50 institutions giving the highest priority to developing community, all but three were private and none were research universities. Following an analysis of the tension between the concepts of individualism and community in today's higher education institutions, the lecture explores some ways that community values can be emphasized in research universities and makes a case for the centrality of community as a guiding value in higher education. Responses to the lecture are provided by four faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including Philip Garcia, Carol Thomas Neely, Philip A. Sandberg, and Steve Tozer. (Contains 15 references.) (JDD)