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

Label
Speaking of Duke, leading the 21st-century university, Richard H. Brodhead
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Speaking of Duke
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
Responsibility statement
Richard H. Brodhead
Sub title
leading the 21st-century university
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