Richard H Brodhead

Speaking of Duke

Leading the Twenty-First-Century University

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Produktbeschreibung

Richard H. Brodhead was the president of Duke University from 2004 to 2017 and served as the William Preston Few Professor of English. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He previously served as the dean of Yale College from 1993 to 2004 and as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English at Yale University. He is the recipient of several awards, including four honorary degrees. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, he cochaired its national Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. A scholar of nineteenth-century American literature, Brodhead is the author of several books, including The Good of This Place: Values and Challenges in College Education and Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America, and the editor of many others, including The Journals of Charles W. Chesnutt and The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales, both also published by Duke University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822368847
• ISBN-10: 0822368846
• Artikelnr.: 46481668

Autorenporträt

Richard H. Brodhead

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
2003
Remarks on Being Named President of Duke University  1
2004
Freshman Convocation: Authoring a Community  5
Graduate and Professional Convocation: The Virtues and Limits of
Specialization  12
Inaugural Address: More Day to Dawn  19
Remarks at the Induction Ceremony of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences: Literature as Life  29
2005
Baccalaureate: On Education and Empowerment  32
Founders' Day Address: On Founding as a Continuous Labor  37
Faculty Address: Financial Aid, the Problem-centric University  44
2006
Preface to the University Strategic Plan, Making A Difference: Duke and the
Changing Landscape: A Planning Prologue  53
2007
Commencement Address at Fisk University  60
Fresman Convocation: The Ethic of Engagement  64
Lessons of Lacrosse  71
2008
Baccalaureate: Frolics and Detours  75
2009
Baccalaureate: Advancing in a Recession  80
In Memoriam: John Hope Franklin  85
2010
Faculty Address: The University and the Financial Downturn  88
Baccalaureate: Walk Ten Thousand Miles, Read Ten Thousand Books  98
2011
Faculty Address: Budgets, International Opportunities, the Humanities  103
In Memoriam: Reynolds Price  113
Freshman Convocation: On the Use of New Freedoms  115
John Tyler Caldwell Lecture on the Humanities: The Fire That Never Goes
Out  119
2012
In Memoriam: Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans  127
Faculty Address: Duke and Race  130
Baccalaureate: Repairing the Broken World  139
2013
Baccalaureate: Connecting and Disconnecting  144
Interview with Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report  148
Freshman Convocation: Receive, Connect, Engage  153
Remarks at the Opening of the Center on Sexual and Gender Diversity  157
Presidential Address, The College Board Forum: The Value Debate in Higher
Education  161
2014
Lecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing: Interconnected Knowledge and the
Twenty-First-Century University  172
Faculty Address; Leadership Transitions, Rebuilding the Campus, the Role of
Philanthropy  183
Commencement Address at Miami Dade College: Opportunity Changes Everything 
194
Freshman Convocation: On Comfort True and False  201
2015
Faculty Address: Chocies That Made Duke—Medicine, Athletics, Durham  205
Remarks at a Community Forum on a Racial Incident  216
Freshman Convocation: Constructing Duke  220
Keynote Address, Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the National
Endowment for the Humanties: On the Fate and Fortunes of Public Goods  225
2016
Baccalaureate: I Learn by Going Where I Have to Go  237
Freshman Convocation: Citizens of Duke  242
Index  247