Speaking of Duke : leading the 21st-century university / Richard H. Brodhead.

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Main Author: Brodhead, Richard H., 1947- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Remarks on accepting the presidency of Duke, 2004
  • Freshman convocation: Authoring a community
  • Graduate and professional convocation: The virtues and limits of specialization
  • Inaugural address: More day to dawn
  • Remarks at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Literature as life, 2005
  • Baccalaureate: On education and empowerment
  • Founders' Day address: On founding as a continuous labor
  • Faculty address: Financial aid; The problem-centric university, 2006
  • Preface to the university strategic plan: Making a difference, 2007
  • Commencement address at Fisk University
  • Freshman convocation: The ethic of engagement
  • Lessons of lacrosse, 2008
  • Baccalaureate address: Frolics and detours, 2009
  • Baccalaureate address: Advancing in a recession
  • In memoriam: John Hope Franklin, 2010
  • Faculty address: The university and the financial downturn
  • Baccalaureate: Walk ten thousand miles, read ten thousand books, 2011
  • Faculty address: Budgets, international opportunities, the humanities
  • In memoriam: Reynolds Price
  • Freshman convocation: On the use of new freedoms
  • John Tyler Caldwell lecture on the humanities: The fire that never goes out, 2012
  • In memoriam: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans
  • Faculty address: Duke and race
  • Baccalaureate address: On repairing a broken world, 2013
  • Baccalaureate: Connecting and disconnecting
  • Interview with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report
  • Freshman convocation: Receive, connect, engage
  • Remarks at the opening of The Center on Sexual and Gender Diversity
  • Presidential address, The College Board Forum: The value debate in higher education, 2014
  • Lecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing: Interconnected knowledge and the 21st century university
  • Faculty address: Leadership transitions, rebuilding the campus, the role of philanthropy
  • Commencement address at Miami Dade College: Opportunity changes everything
  • Freshman convocation: On comfort true and false, 2015
  • Faculty address: Choices that made Duke medicine, athletics, Durham
  • Remarks at a community forum on a racial incident
  • Freshman convocation: Constructing Duke
  • Keynote address, 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Endowment for the Humanities: On the fate and fortunes of public goods, 2016
  • Baccalaureate address: I learn by going where I have to go
  • Freshman convocation: Citizens of Duke.