Boiler Up

Mitch Daniels

Description

When former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels was named Purdue University’s twelfth president, he became one of a small handful of nationally renowned figures to lead an institution of higher education. In an era when university presidents had largely abandoned the role of public intellectual, Daniels immediately captured broad attention for his willingness to take a thoughtful stand on America’s most pressing challenges—in academia and far beyond.

Boiler Up: A University President in the Public Square offers readers a fascinating compendium of commencement addresses, published columns, and transcripts of speeches and hosted events spanning ten years of insights and insightful interactions that put Mitch Daniels front and center among American thought leaders. Throughout the book, Daniels’s sharp intellect, incisive analysis, and delightful sense of humor reign supreme. Via embedded QR codes, readers can “attend” recorded content, including evenings with Condoleezza Rice, Garry Kasparov, Walter Isaacson, and other fascinating people. Whether the reader seeks lessons on leadership or immersion in engaging ideas, Boiler Up is a tour de force of transformative thinking.

Proceeds from the sales of Boiler Up support the scholarship fund at Purdue Polytechnic High Schools.

Foreword, by Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Introduction

Part I. Speeches, Interviews, and Messages

Speeches and Interviews

Messages to the Purdue

Community

Part II. The Columns

Common Sense

Educational Challenges

Keeping Our Democracy (Good Policy and Practice)

COVID and Our After Life

Our Cultural Crevasse

Bad Policy and Its Trappings

Lessons from Science

Part III. Presidential Lecture Series

No Greater Honor — Public Service at Its Finest

How We Got Here — Great Historians of Our Time

The Grand Experiment — The Future of Democracy

A Way with Words — Journalists Writers and Commentators

Great Challenges Great Courage

Science and Sound Thinking

Part IV. The Ten Commencements

Ingenuity

Change

Duty

Intention

Humility

Tribalism

Grit

Connection

Risk

You

Part V. Selected Media Interviews and Articles from the Daniels Decade

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Author

Sujets

• Gestion et management
• Universidad Purdue
• History of Indiana
• Boilermaker
• Presidency of George W. Bush
• Purdue University
• Economics
• Business
• Université Purdue
• Leadership
• Mitch Daniels

Informations

• Publié par: Purdue University Press
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781612499376
• Langue: English

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