Price Addresses Steps to Restore Public Trust in Higher Education

In a free-ranging question-and-answer discussion with university faculty last Thursday, Duke President Vincent Price gave extended comments about what he sees as a critical challenge for Duke and other universities: How to restore trust in higher education’s contributions to society at a moment when universities are coming under attack for being entitled.

Price said the attacks are coming from “concerted efforts to undercut what universities might do well,” attacks that are a “caricature” of how