As an immigrant turned entrepreneur and college president, here is why I celebrate our nation as it turns 250

nido (Credit: courtesy of High Point University)

Americans throw the best birthday parties. I know. I showed up to one uninvited and never left.

I came to this country as a young man with no money and limited knowledge of the language. What I lacked in material substance, I made up for with conviction. I had a half-formed but fierce belief that this was the place. Not a place. The place.