Presidential Leadership

President Richard H. Brodhead has emphasized several key themes since arriving at Duke in July 2004.

He has focused much of his leadership on enriching the undergraduate experience of Duke students, an effort that is reflected in the university's five-year strategic plan and a $30-million civic engagement effort to provide funding and faculty support to all undergraduates who want to apply their classroom learning to societal issues at home and abroad.

Brodhead is committed to expanding the university’s financial aid endowment to ensure that a Duke education is accessible to qualified students regardless of their family’s financial circumstances. He is also leading an effort to infuse the campus with expanded opportunities to participate in and enjoy the arts.

The president has called for Duke to become an international center in addressing health care inequities through a major global health initiative involving faculty and schools across the university. Brodhead has also been active in Durham promoting K-12 public education, several new community health clinics, neighborhood revitalization through the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership and the future strategic direction of Research Triangle Park.