Speeches and Writings

Speeches

2017

• Spring 2017 Commencement Address, speech, Berkeley, CA, May 2017.

2016

• Spring 2016 Commencement Address, speech, Berkeley, CA, May 2016.
• Clinton Global Initiative University Keynote Address, speech, Berkeley, CA, Apr. 2016.

2015

• 2015 Winter Commencement Address, speech, Berkeley, CA, Dec. 2015.
• Times Higher Education World Academic Summit, keynote, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 2015.
• 2015 Fall Convocation Address, speech, Berkeley, CA, Aug. 2015.
• 2015 Spring Commencement Address, speech, Berkeley, CA, May 2015.
• Remarks - 2015 Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation, speech, Berkeley, CA, Mar. 2015.

2014

• 2014 Winter Commencement Address, speech, Berkeley, CA, Dec. 2014.
• Address to the Academic Senate on the Berkeley Global Campus, speech, Berkeley, CA, Oct. 2014.
• "Online Education: Preparing the Labor Force," debate with Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun, The World Affairs Council, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 2014.
• Berkeley Incoming Student Convocation Keynote, speech, Berkeley, CA, Aug. 2014.
• "The Utopian Past and Future of the Public University," speech, The Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, CA, Mar. 2014.

Writings

2017

• "Making a difference in four years" in The Daily Californian, May 2017
• "Berkeley is under attack from both sides" in The New York Times, Apr. 2017
• "Top Universities must enroll more low-income students" in The San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 2017

2016

• "Flagships must create new models to preserve the public good" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul. 2016
• "Challenges create stronger campus and community" in The Daily Californian, May 2016.
• "New emphasis on data science valuable to students in all fields" in The Daily Californian, Feb. 2016.
• “The Evolution of Globalized Higher Education,” with Nils Gilman, in University Priorities and Constraints, Luc E. Weber and James Duderstadt, Eds. Economica, Glion Colloquium Series No. 9: London, Paris, Geneve. 2016

2015

• "Berkeley's new approach to global engagement: Early and current efforts to become more international" in the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education's Research & Occasional Paper Series, Dec. 2015.
• "Campus staff professionals deserve infinite gratitude" in The Daily Californian, Dec. 2015.
• "Exposure to arts central to undegraduate experience" in The Daily Californian, Nov. 2015.
• "Our student-athletes can excel on two fronts" in The Daily Californian, Oct. 2015
• "Dubois' ideology still relevant today" in The Daily Californian, Sep. 2015
• "The Liberal Arts and The University: Tracing the Origins and Structure of Undergraduate Education In the US and at the University Of California" in the UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education's Research & Occasional Paper Series, Jun. 2015.
• "Intercollegiate athletics crucial to academic values" in The Daily Californian, Jun. 2015.
• "Rebirth of the research university" in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr. 2015.
• "Discourse on free speech, civility gives us lessons to take forward" in The Daily Californian, Apr. 2015.
• "How we are improving the undergraduate experience" in The Daily Californian, Mar. 2015.
• "Traditions of excellence worth maintaining" in The Daily Californian, Feb. 2015.
• "My passage to India" on The Berkeley Blog, Feb. 2015.
• "Why I miss the culture wars" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 2015.
• "How are universities adapting to globalization?" on the World Economic Forum blog, Jan. 2015.
• "Leading a global transformation of the American research university" in The Huffington Post, Jan. 2015.

2014

• "Our global university: What might this mean for Berkeley students?" in The Daily Californian, Nov. 2014.
• "Lead your generation with a vote," in The Daily Californian, Oct. 2014.
• "Reaffirming roles of intercollegiate student-athletes, coaches, staff," in The Daily Californian, Sep. 2014.
• "Berkeley’s forecast: sunshine after the storm," in The Times (UK) Higher Education Supplement, Oct. 2014.
• "Reflecting on the legacy of the Free Speech Movement," in The Daily Californian, Oct. 2014.
• "Reimagining the future, not just for ourselves, but for all," in The Daily Californian, Aug. 2014.
• "What Ivory Tower gets wrong," in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul. 2014.  
• "Together, our school can continue to lead," in The Daily Californian, Feb. 2014
• “Utopian pasts and futures,” in The Huffington Post, January 2014.

2013

• “A brighter outlook for higher education in California,” in the Los Angeles Times, July 2013.