Upcoming Events: Leading Universities—Tales from the Trenches V & VI

Leading Universities: Tales from the Trenches V & VI

Six Yale faculty members who started their administrative careers at Yale went on to head major universities: Cambridge, Duke, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford, and Yale. At the invitation of the Yale Henry Koerner Center, Richard Brodhead, Andrew Hamilton, Richard Levin, and Alison Richard shared their experiences as leaders in higher education last spring; and two, Susan Hockfield and Peter Salovey, will discuss their careers this fall. The Yale Center for British Art will host the upcoming Koerner Center lectures on the following dates. The lectures are free and open to the Yale community; advance registration is required. 

“It is hard to convey the interest and delight of being so often in the company of brilliant people from every academic discipline and flavor imaginable, listening to them talk about their work or how best to approach the particular issue under discussion.” – Alison Richard

“We hired first-rate people, we listened, and we drew on the resources identified by Herman Melville [Moby Dick] in a line often invoked by Dick Brodhead: ‘Time, strength, cash, and patience!’” – Richard Levin

“At Yale, I learned lessons in academic leadership that served me well at Oxford, which is twice the size of Yale, and then later at NYU, which is twice the size of Oxford!” – Andrew Hamilton

“As president I got incomparable education in hundreds of contemporary issues, and I got to learn them in the most privileged, soul-satisfying way: not by reading about them but by meeting people in the midst of them, people across multiple generations and five continents, older people using their powers to promote good outcomes in place of bad, younger people awaking to what they could become.” – Richard Brodhead

Monday, September 15, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
Leading Universities: Tales from the Trenches V
Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall

Susan Hockfield, Professor of Neurobiology, Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Provost, Yale University; President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Monday, November 10, 4:00–5:00 p.m.

Leading Universities: Tales from the Trenches VI
Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall

Peter Salovey, Professor of Psychology, Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dean of Yale College, Provost, and President, Yale University

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