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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brodhead, Richard H., 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Duke University.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Duke University--Presidents.

Presidents.

Genre:

Speeches.

Physical Description:

xiii, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Brodhead, Richard H., 1947- Speaking of Duke.

ISBN:

9780822368847

0822368846

OCLC:

959809743