Good evening! Thank you for joining us to celebrate the life and legacy of Maya Angelou. Tonight, we gather on what would be Maya Angelou’s 90th birthday. As you all know, Maya Angelou came from humble beginnings, but engaged in a lifelong – and fearless […]
State of the University Good afternoon. Thanks to all of you for joining us. I appreciate your engagement and interest in the state of our University. Thomas Edison, an inventor who held more than a thousand patents, once noted, “We often miss opportunity because it […]
Presentation to the Board of Trustees, June 2017 This past weekend, we celebrated Father’s Day, and I thought about my father, a minister and psychologist, who was a man of few words. Despite having a rambunctious household with four sons, my dad rarely raised his […]
Commencement Address to the Class of 2017 In 1943, the Saturday Evening Post published in successive issues, four paintings by artist Norman Rockwell. The paintings drew from Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech, depicting core democratic values in the face of Nazi tyranny: freedom […]
State of the University
Commencement Address to the Class of 2016
State of the University
Commencement Address to the Class of 2015
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Commencement address to the Class of 2014
