Speaking of Duke
Subtitle: leading the 21st-century university
By: Richard H. Brodhead
Contributors: Duke University Press
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780822368847
Subjects: Higher Education; Aims and objectives; Presidents; Administration; Duke University; Universities and colleges
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Remarks on accepting the presidency of Duke, 2004; title: Freshman convocation: Authoring a community; title: Graduate and professional convocation: The virtues and limits of specialization; title: Inaugural address: More day to dawn; title: Remarks at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Literature as life, 2005; title: Baccalaureate: On education and empowerment; title: Founders' Day address: On founding as a continuous labor; title: Faculty address: Financial aid; The problem-centric university, 2006; title: Preface to the university strategic plan: Making a difference, 2007; title: Commencement address at Fisk University; title: Freshman convocation: The ethic of engagement; title: Lessons of lacrosse, 2008; title: Baccalaureate address: Frolics and detours, 2009; title: Baccalaureate address: Advancing in a recession; title: In memoriam: John Hope Franklin, 2010; title: Faculty address: The university and the financial downturn; title: Baccalaureate: Walk ten thousand miles, read ten thousand books, 2011; title: Faculty address: Budgets, international opportunities, the humanities; title: In memoriam: Reynolds Price; title: Freshman convocation: On the use of new freedoms; title: John Tyler Caldwell lecture on the humanities: The fire that never goes out, 2012; title: In memoriam: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans; title: Faculty address: Duke and race; title: Baccalaureate address: On repairing a broken world, 2013; title: Baccalaureate: Connecting and disconnecting; title: Interview with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report; title: Freshman convocation: Receive, connect, engage; title: Remarks at the opening of The Center on Sexual and Gender Diversity; title: Presidential address, The College Board Forum: The value debate in higher education, 2014; title: Lecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing: Interconnected knowledge and the 21st century university; title: Faculty address: Leadership transitions, rebuilding the campus, the role of philanthropy; title: Commencement address at Miami Dade College: Opportunity changes everything; title: Freshman convocation: On comfort true and false, 2015; title: Faculty address: Choices that made Duke medicine, athletics, Durham; title: Remarks at a community forum on a racial incident; title: Freshman convocation: Constructing Duke; title: Keynote address, 50th anniversary of the founding of the National Endowment for the Humanities: On the fate and fortunes of public goods, 2016; title: Baccalaureate address: I learn by going where I have to go; title: Freshman convocation: Citizens of Duke.