Price Highlights Transitions in Annual Address to the Faculty

President Vincent Price has described Duke's upcoming centennial celebration in 2024 as a moment of transition and a way to launch Duke into its second century. He began his annual address to the faculty Thursday with a nod to the Academic Council’s creation 60 years ago in another pivotal point of transition in the university's history.

The Academic Council was formed in 1963 in the aftermath of the Edens-Gross affair,