Brodhead Richard H. Brodhead

Speaking of Duke (eBook, PDF)

Leading the Twenty-First-Century University

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the course of his thirteen years as president of Duke University, Richard H. Brodhead spoke at numerous university ceremonies, community forums, and faculty meetings, and even appeared on The Colbert Report. Speaking of Duke collects dozens of these speeches, in which Brodhead speaks both to the special character and history of Duke University and to the general state of higher education.In these essays, Brodhead shows a university thinking its way forward through challenges all institutes of higher education have faced in the twenty-first century, including an expanding global horizon, an economic downturn that has left a diminished sense of opportunity and a shaken faith in the value of liberal arts education, and pressure to think more deeply about issues of equity and inclusion. His audiences range from newly arrived freshmen and new graduates-both facing uncertainty about how to build their future lives-to seasoned faculty members. On other occasions, he makes the case to the general public for the enduring importance of the humanities.What results is a portrait of Duke University in its modern chapter and the social and political climate that it shapes and is shaped by. While these speeches were given on official occasions, they are not impersonal official pronouncements; they are often quite personal and written with grace, humor, and an unwavering belief in the power of education to shape a changing world for the better.Brodhead notes that it is an underappreciated fact that a great deal of the exercise of power by a university leader is done through speaking: by articulating the aspirations of the school and the reasons for its choices, and by voicing the shared sense of mission that gives a learning community its reality. Speaking of Duke accomplishes each of those and demonstrates Brodhead's conviction that higher education is more valuable now than ever.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372721
• Artikelnr.: 54789765

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