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大学开学典礼英文

Students of Duke Kunshan University, ladies and gentlemen, Good morning!

I am very delighted and privileged to represent Duke Kunshan University faculty and staff to speak to you; young, talented students from the United States,China and all over the world: Wele! You, the owners of Duke Kunshan University, a brand new model of higher education! Honestly speaking, those words he been in my mind for two years. Kunsan and Duke people he been waiting for this moment for as long as seven years. Now that we are finally able to greet you and wele you to DKU, we are filled with cheer and excitement and we cant wait any longer.

We say DKU is a brand new model of higher education notjust because it was jointly created by two leading universities, Duke University from the United States and Wuhan University from China, but also because DKU introduces Duke Universitys advanced education idea, administration model, teaching pedagogy and curricular design into the context of Chinese higher education system. DKU aims at being an elite, research, prehensive and international world-class university, on the basis of learning, digesting, absorption, and re-innovation in line with Chinese culture, social and economic developmentneeds. This is what we planned to do and this is what we are doing.

By learning from Duke Universitys mitment to knowledge in the service of society and Wuhan Universitys educational missions of truth and innovation, we are thinking to define the mission of DKU as serving truth and justice, serving nations and societies. Learning from Dukes model, we he established a Board of Trustees, an Academic Council, a Board of Advisors and a flat management structure. With a demand-orientated, problem-orientated and future-oriented strategy, DKU will establish a number of interdisciplinary, cross-field and cross-industry collaborative research centers which offer undergraduate, master and doctoral, and post-doc education andresearch programs, in order to achieve an new model of vertical learning, and an integration of talent cultivation, research, social service, cultural inheritance and innovation. We he already established the DKU Global Health Research Center, we are currently working on the Environment management andEnergy Policy Research Center, and others based on the social and economic development needs of the world and China. We he introduced not only three interdisciplinary master-degree programs from Duke University, but also its undergraduate Liberal Arts education. We will continue to introduce moreacademic programs based on needs, relevant problems and future trends. With academic support from Duke University and Wuhan University, through the effortsof faculty and students, I am confident that DKU will demonstrate its unique education characteristics among world university munities, build its own academic strengths and form its own spirit. As you he seen, we he many professors and staff from Duke, they are the witness to see this and they are the guarantee to achieve our ambitious, long-term goals. I would like toexpress our sincerest respect and gratitude to them for crossing the Pacific Ocean to work for DKU in China! Lets give them applause.

We say DKUs campus is brand new not only because it will be unveiled very soon, but also because of its pioneering design concept; the harmony of people, building, campus and Kunshans distinctive water-town environment; its high-standard, automatic, intelligent，energy-sing，technology and management system stands out among all universities in China; its magnificent architecture and dynamic space beautifully blend the innovative and creative spirit of Americans with the harmonious culture of Chinese. It was a very visionary and fortunate decision to locate our campus in Kunshan, a city with a history of more than two thousand years and great vitality because of globalization. More than fifteen centuries ago, Zu Chongzhi, mathematician and then-Magistrate of Kunshan, calculated to theseventh decimal, about a thousand years earlier than Europeans. Kunshan is the origin of Kun Opera, the ancestor of all Chinese operas. I am sure you will he many opportunities to enjoy the fascinating Kun Opera.

Inaddition to its long-standing traditions of sciences and humanities, Kunshansbeautiful natural environment makes it a great city to live in. The tranquilitysurrounding our campus makes it a great place to study. Today, I must pay myrespect to the ones who chose this great location and the ones who designed andbuilt the DKU campus. Today, However, I also regret to he to tell that you will not he classes and live on campus as planned due to the fact that it takes time to beautify outdoor environment and to purify the air of the interior decoration. For the sake of your safety and health, DKU will follow strict design standards to inspect and accept the campus. Many world-famous architects once said: Architecture is a regrettable art. After you move into the campus,you might still find some regrettable small issues. Now I promise to you onbehalf of DKU and the construction team that we will do everything we can to ensureyour satisfaction. We will respond as quickly as possible and offer warm andtimely services should any issues arise.

We say you are thefirst owner of the campus, we dont just mean you are the first group of students at DKU but you are also the true owner of the campus, co-founders and administrators. Without you, there is no way for us to build and develop ouruniversity. One scholar once said that university means academic munity inLatin. It is a munity of faculty, scholars and students. As Steven Brintpointed out in 2001, munities are aggregates of people who share mon activities and/or beliefs and who are bound togetherprincipally by relations of affect, loyalty, mon values, and/or personalconcern. In this munity at DKU, nomatter where you are from, what your beliefs are, whether you are faculty orstudents, academics will be our mon link and way of living. It is our mongoal to pursue academic freedom and innovation, academic purity and integrity.In this munity at DKU, it is our mon belief to serve with my feeblecapacity truth and justice, as said by Einstein, and to apply knowledge inservice of society, as advocated by Duke University. In this munity at DKU,faculty and students respect each other, care about each other and exploreknowledge and the unknown together. In his speech given at Tsinghua University,President Brodhead of Duke university said, In this concept, faculty membersare explorers and discoverers, not primarily authority figures; students andteachers are there to search together; and every idea, however final it mayseem, not only can be, but needs to be, questioned, tested, reconsidered, forknowledge to keep advancing. This is why at DKU we wele and encouragestudents to question faculty and staff, question the school and chancellors. Wedeeply believe that your questioning is exactly what will advance DKU.

Among the newstudents at DKU, we he 42 students in the three Masters programs. They efrom ten different countries including America, Africa, Europe and Asia. Amongthem, 57% are Chinese students, 43% are international students from differentcountries, including 19% American students. I know most of you are here becauseof Dukes world-class educational resources and the unique cross-culturallearning environment provided at DKU. As time goes by, you will realize you heabsolutely made the right decision. At the moment, we he 32 MMS students whohe already concluded their orientation and started their classes on DukeCampus. They will trel back to DKU to finish their study in next semester.Students in other two Masters programs will also he opportunities to studyat Duke for about a semester. At DKU, students will he the same access asDuke students to the Duke online library and other resources, including labresources in the future. Our international teaching and municationenvironment will provide all students with cross-boundary learning experiencesand field trip opportunities. All students will be immersed and will grow indifferent cultural and social environment. This hard-won experience will equipyou with a greater international perspective. You can develop your career withstronger global petency. Our target is to cultivate global citizens who takeroots in their own national culture. Our definition of a global citizen is whorespects, understands, tolerates and appreciates different cultures andtraditions, abides by the laws of each country, adheres to the beliefs offreedom, equality, justice and righteousness, and is capable of municationin international mon languages, and is a citizen with a strong sense ofresponsibility, who can serve the whole of humanity.

This fall, we he received 62students for our Undergraduate Global Learning Semester program. They are topstudents from famous universities in China, America and India, such as DukeUniversity, Shiv Nadar University, Peking University, Tsinghua University,Fudan University, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, etc. Here, I would liketo wele all of you on behalf of DKU. Your study at DKU might be as short asonly one semester, but you will always be a member of us and will bee ourlife-long alumni. To join this program means more than the study of courses,you will also get a taste of American liberal arts education provided by DukeUniversity and be exposed to advanced educational concepts and pedagogy fromhigher education pioneers, so that you can be prepared to take up a series ofmajor challenges faced by human beings in the context of economicglobalization, science and technology revolution and social transformation inthe 21st century. Your expectation of this program is exactly why westarted it in the first place. During the semester, you will understand that modernliberal arts education teaches us HOW to learn and think rather than WHAT tolearn and think. You will also better understand what a student-orientedteaching approach is, what cross-cultural munication is, what field studyis, what self-study and self-reflection is and so on. All in all, the purposeof the liberal arts education is to grant students independent spirit and freethoughts. This echoes with the saying of Thomas Jefferson, the third presidentin the US, Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact,every opinionyou must lay aside all prejudice on both sides, and neitherbelieve nor reject anything, because any other persons, or deion ofpersons, he rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle givenyou by heen, and you are answerable, not for the rightness, but uprightnessof the decision.

Dear students, this is our Duke Kunshan University. World-class faculty and outstanding students with the shared dream of creating a world-class university he gathered here today. DKUis a nascent newborn and needs nurture and care. However, it is uniquely pretty,because it is created by two top universities in the United States and China.It was born from the collision and convergence of the best that Eastern andWestern cultures can offer. Its energy and vitality makes us fully confident inits future. I also want to let you know that DKU has been identified as one ofthe key projects in the Joint Result List of the Fifth US-China High-level Consultation onPeople-to-People Exchange. The Consultation document laid out the target ofbuilding platform for joint research of petitive disciplines andtalent-cultivation. We are convinced that with strong support from Wuhan University,Duke University and Kunshan government and people, our faculty, students andstaff at DKU, we can jointly build DKU into a world-level research andtalent-cultivation platform in the future. On this platform, as expected byMinister Yuan Guiren of Chinas Ministry of Education, we will achievesomething that neither American universities nor Chinese universities canachieve alone. In due time, all of us co-creators of DKU and all those who expectnothing less than for DKU to bee a world-class university will, because ofyour efforts, smile with sincere gratification.

Thank you.

大学开学典礼英文