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
 

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