
Speaking of Duke
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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
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