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October 20, 2005 | Installation Ceremony
President Nathan O. Hatch
Full speech
"Wake Forest has been, and will continue to be, a full citizen and good neighbor in this region."
"Given the remarkable trajectory of this university, we face today's challenges with confidence."
"One of the most vexing issues in the world today is that it seems simultaneously to be more radically religious and radically secular."
"Graduates also face a society more diverse than ever before, ethnically and religiously. But it is not necessarily a more integrated society or one that has more things in common."
"Wake Forest's finest tradition is that of a community, personal in scale, committed to learning at the highest level, to character formation, and to diversity."
"In short, our goal should be nothing less than a learning environment that is contagious for faculty and students alike."
"Wake Forest's religious heritage, far from being a liability, provides a middle ground where vital religious traditions can engage modern thought in a climate of academic freedom."
"Above all, students today long for one thing: to narrow the gap between the ideals we profess and the lives we lead."
October 19, 2005 | Academic Symposia
"The Moral Challenges of Professional Life"
Selected excerpts
E.J. Dionne, syndicated columnist, The Washington Post
"It's fascinating in light of this school's religious history and Nathan's own deep interest in religion that the first three definitions of profession in the Miriam Webster dictionary are, in fact, religious."
James A. Autry, former Fortune 500 executive
"You know, in organizational life today, there's a lot of talk about values and morality and such, but a lot of it is just talk."
"The two main areas of moral challenge (in business) are people ... I just can't stand the term human resources ... are people and the business itself."
"In lecture management classes what I say is, 'Look, if you don't care about people, please don't go into management. We have enough of you already.' "
"Frankly, I believe this preoccupation with stock holder value to the exclusion of other considerations set up a moral climate in which everything viewed is the stock price. Enron is simply our most egregious example."
Charles K. Francis, cardiologist
"As a profession, (physicians) declare that we have certain obligations, a binding commitment to place one's special knowledge and skill at the service of the sick."
"Where do physicians get their moral foundations?"
"We need to, first of all, deal with trying to educate young people as they enter their own professors, but also to teach the faculty, develop role models, and increase the numbers of minority and women faculty that students encounter."
Miroslav Volf, Yale Divinity School
"First, we know now, or at least the students of religion ought to know now, that religions at the bottom are not the same."
"Religions are continuing to have significant impact on public life, particularly, I think, worldwide because religions are the growing, overarching interpretations of the world."
"As citizens, I think we ought to advocate not so much separation of church and state, but rather we ought to advocate impartiality of state toward all overarching views of life-secularism included-all different religions included."
"Religious people must be allowed to bring arguments based on their sacred texts and traditions into a public debate."
"I think work spaces ought not to be conceived, or practiced rather, as has been often the case so far, as faith-free zones, but rather must be replaced or become faith-friendly work environments."
Full audio
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Part III
"Why the Liberal Arts? Exploring the Aims of a University Education"
Selected excerpts
Stanley Katz, Princeton University historian
Katz believes a liberal arts education better fits contemporary working lives because people no longer work for a single employer or one industry throughout their working lives.
Stanley Katz, Princeton University historian
"We're also committed to moral education. ..."
Jean Elshtain, University of Chicago
"I want to suggest, this morning, that neither the side of faith nor the side of reason fares very well when faith and reason are driven apart."
Jean Elshtain, University of Chicago
"So the physics or math professor who offers to his or her student's an example of adult integrity ..."
Harry Stout, American religious history scholar
"Where is moral education in our modern liberal arts curriculum? ..."
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Part II
Part III
October 18, 2005 | Prayer Service
Maya Angelou
"When it looked like the sun wasn't gonna shine any more, God put a rainbow in the clouds," Angelou sang.
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