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  Richard H. Brodhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brodhead was born in 1947 in Dayton, Ohio.
Brodhead graduated from Yale College in 1968 (summa cum laude with Highest Distinction in the English major) and was granted a Ph.D. in English from Yale Graduate School in 1972.
[1] Brodhead, along with others in the administration, were accused of putting the students who participated in the strike on a fllist, though the charges were never proven.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_H._Brodhead   (500 words)

  
 Duke's Next President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Brodhead was introduced to the Duke community Friday morning at a press conference in the Rare Book Room of the Perkins Library, on Duke's West Campus.
Brodhead was the first Yale graduate in more than two decades to be named to the deanship, which he has held longer than all but two others in Yale's 302-year history.
Brodhead was a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1989 and 1991.
www.duke.edu /newpresident   (1427 words)

  
 Genealogy Biographies - Henry Johnson biography with Johnson genealogy resources by Ancestor Search
Richard Brodhead (2)., third son of Daniel and Ann (Tye) Brodhead, was born in Ulster county, New York, and married Jansen, by whom he had a son Daniel, mentioned at length hereinafter.
Richard Green (2), eldest child of William (1) and Joanna (Reede) Green, and first to bear the name of Richard, married Mary, daughter of George Ely, of Trenton, and they were the parents of four children Richard, mentioned at length hereinafter; Rebecca, Christian, and William.
Richard Green (3), eldest child of Richard (2) and Mary (Ely) Green, and second of the name of Richard, married Phoebe, daughter of Nathaniel Moore, and their children were: William, Nathaniel, Richard, Enoch, John, mentioned at length hereinafter; Samuel, Benjamin, Joseph, George, Rebecca and Sarah.
www.searchforancestors.com /bios/pennsylvania/history_of_lycoming_county/johnson_henry.html   (2424 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Education / Higher education / Duke selects Yale dean as new president   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Brodhead excused himself by saying he had nearly a lifelong relationship with Yale and would probably recover as soon as he attended a Blue Devil basketball game.
Brodhead, who said he had turned down offers from other schools over the years, said the allure of Duke was overwhelming.
Brodhead, a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College with exceptional distinction in English, joined its faculty as an assistant professor of English in 1972; became a full professor in 1985; and was appointed to the Bird White Housum Professorship in English in 1990.
www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2003/12/12/duke_selects_yale_dean_as_new_president   (673 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Richard H. Brodhead
Richard A. (Dick) Wolf, born December 20, 1946, New York City), is one of television’s most respected drama series creators and is an Emmy-award-winning producer.
In December 1995, GESO began a grade-strike, which ultimately failed when the Yale administration refused to concede to their demands.[[1] Brodhead, along with others in the administration, were accused of putting the students who participated in the strike on a fllist, though the charges were never proven.
One month into his tenure as president, Brodhead encountered controversy when he approved usage of the campus for a conference by the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) [3].
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-H.-Brodhead   (956 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Education / Higher education / Duke selects Yale dean as new president   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Brodhead has served as dean of Yale College and its 5,200 undergraduates since 1992, and he cited the similarities in the schools in sketching out his goals for Duke, which has 6,500 undergraduates among its 12,000 students.
Brodhead, who grew up in Connecticut, graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a degree in English in 1968, joined its faculty in 1972 and became a full professor in 1985.
Brodhead said teaching remains his first love, and he hopes to find time after learning his new job to lead some classes.
www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2003/12/12/duke_selects_yale_dean_as_new_president?mode=PF   (1327 words)

  
 Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release
Brodhead has shared with the provost and the dean of the Graduate School broad responsibilities for the support of departments and chairs in the recruitment of new faculty.
Dean Brodhead was honored for his skills as a classroom teacher in 1979 when he was awarded one of the University's highest accolades, the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Scholarship and Teaching by the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and he has continued to teach during his deanship.
Brodhead joined the University faculty as an assistant professor of English in 1972; became a full professor in 1985; and was appointed to the Bird White Housum Professorship in English in 1990.
www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/97-11-03-01.all.html   (930 words)

  
 Administrators: not just faceless bureaucrats | Summer1998
Brodhead, who was recently appointed to another five year term, deals with faculty appointments and funding allocation for various areas of the University.
A Cambridge graduate with a doctorate in primate biology, Richard is the chief academic and budgetary officer of the University.
Richard helps determine faculty salaries and chairs the budget committee, which prepares both the operating and capital budgets for finalization by the Yale Corporation.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/frosh/1998/you/administrators.html   (691 words)

  
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Brodhead was appointed to the deanship by Howard Lamar, who was acting president of Yale from 1992 to 1993.
Brodhead chaired the self-study committee and wrote the final report, which included a new look at science for nonscientists, an effort to broaden international experience and integrate it better with the curriculum, a call to increase opportunities for the study of the arts, and proposed reforms to undergraduate advising.
Brodhead evidently was intrigued; in his freshman-class address, he referred to "the formidable expertise developing in Bingham Hall in Dance Dance Revolution, not yet an accredited academic program." Edelman proceeded to invite Brodhead to a DDR demonstration, and then to invite his friends to what he dubbed "the first annual DDR Faculty Invitational."
www.dukemagazine.duke.edu /dukemag/cgi-bin/printout.pl?date=111204&article=yankee   (4805 words)

  
 WRAL.com - News - Duke Officially Names New President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Richard H. Brodhead, dean of Yale College and the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English at Yale University, has been elected Duke's ninth president.
Brodhead showed that humor Friday, quoting Huckleberry Finn during his press conference and describing a series of funny coincidences that may also have played a role in his coming to Duke.
Brodhead earned three degrees from the university -- his bachelor's degree in English in 1968, followed two years later by a master's degree and then, in 1972, by a Ph.D. in English.
www.wral.com /news/2701469/detail.html   (1086 words)

  
 newsobserver.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Brodhead, who has been at the helm of Duke for nearly 15 months, was a guest Tuesday on "The State of Things," a local public radio program produced by WUNC.
During the radio interview, Brodhead said he thought some of the trouble in near-campus neighborhoods could be curbed if the legal drinking age were lowered to 18.
But Brodhead said he was not on a crusade to lower the legal drinking age.
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 Richard BRODHEAD & Mary Jane BRADFORD & Robert SAYRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
BRODHEAD, Richard, senator, was born in Lehman township, Pike county, Pa., Jan. 5, 1811.
John Jordan and Rachel (Brodhead) Linderman; and grandson of Henry Linderman of Orange county, N.Y., and of Richard Brodhead of Pike county, Pa. His first ancestors in America were Jacob von Linderman, who settled near Kingston, Ulster county, N.Y., in 1710, and Capt.
BRODHEAD, RICHARD, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1811 in Pike county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1849; and a senator of the United States senate from Pennsylvania from 1851 to 1857.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Richard Brodhead said his newest role as the university's president will be daunting, but the man who spent 32 years at Yale University describes the challenge as "fun."
Brodhead said there are no grand plans to fix the university because he said it is not broken, but there are some areas he is interested in improving.
Brodhead also hopes to increase the endowment for financial aid, making the private university affordable to more people.
www.officer.com /news/IBS/wral/news-2270725.html   (233 words)

  
 Richard H. Brodhead - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The charges were never proven, although he was cited in an NLRB decision.
At Duke University, Brodhead is currently criticized by some as acting against workers' rights.
These issues mainly revolve around Angelica Corporation, to whom the University's Health System outsourced its laundry, and the implementation of a "living wage" for university employees.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Richard_H._Brodhead   (342 words)

  
 yaledailynews.com - Dean Richard Brodhead: a true Yalie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead is perhaps the most dynamic of the Yale administrators.
A Branfordian, Brodhead graduated from Yale in 1968 with a degree in English, and then graduated from the Yale Graduate School in 1972 with a doctorate.
Brodhead's official duty is overseeing all facets of Yale College.
www.yaledailynews.com /articlefunctions/Printerfriendly.asp?AID=12347   (328 words)

  
 Dean at Yale Is Named President of Duke
Brodhead, who earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Yale and has spent most of his career there, said that Duke's core values were close to his own and that he was excited by its dual position as a top-ranked university and one that is "still so up-and-coming."
Brodhead said that highlights included a new look at science for nonscientists and an effort to broaden international experience and integrate it better with the college curriculum.
Brodhead said that studying Chesnutt had immersed him in a study of North Carolina's history and had also given him a chance to savor its barbecue.
www.nytimes.com /2003/12/12/education/12CND-DUKE.html?ex=1386651600&en=a602fa243e07c55a&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND   (653 words)

  
 Brodhead resigns as dean: Becomes third Yale College dean to step down in three years
Richard Brodhead, BR '68, GRD '72, called a special meeting of top faculty and administrators in his office yesterday to announce that he will resign as dean of Yale College, effective Fri., Apr. 21.
Brodhead also elaborated upon the rumor that he is planning to teach Israeli erotic dancing at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, if it ever gets constructed and stops making life living hell for everyone in Silliman.
Brodhead will soon announce that he plans to live off-campus next year, a move that will surely draw much criticism in light of his recent attempts to encourage on-campus living.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/xix/3.31.95/news/brodhead.html   (1295 words)

  
 MELUS: The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales. - Review - book reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
And while, as Brodhead claims, it was this very perpetuation of fl storytellers which led to the acceptance of a fl author by the readership of the Atlantic and other mainstream periodicals, that acceptance was strictly limited to certain kinds of stories.
Brodhead indicates that the question is open to argument, but claims "that cultural events always have more than one party to them and unfold through the interactions of competing interests."
Brodhead offers these stories not only as a way to investigate the work of the author but also to interrogate the cultural context which affected the collection's publication.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_2_24/ai_59211523   (962 words)

  
 Richard Brodhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other men with similar names, see Richard Brodhead (disambiguation).
Richard Brodhead (January 5, 1811–September 16, 1863) was an American lawyer and politician from Easton, Pennsylvania.
He represented Pennsylvania in both the U.S. House and Senate.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Brodhead   (62 words)

  
 News 14 Carolina | 24 Hour Local News | HEADLINES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Richard Brodhead becomes the university's ninth president Thursday, replacing Nan Keohane.
As Duke University prepares for new President Richard Brodhead, students said there are a few things they would like to see addressed.
In response, President Brodhead is non-committal but vows to meet with and discuss all issues surrounding Mount Olive Pickle workers.
rdu.news14.com /content/headlines?ArID=50352&SecID=2   (341 words)

  
 Richard H. Brodhead, M.D.
Brodhead was born January 30, 1922, in Chicago, IL the son of the late Richard and Irma (Crawmer) Brodhead.
Brodhead was Board Certified in Otolaryngology and practiced his profession in Wausau, Wisconsin until his retirement in 1987.
Brodhead moved to Hot Springs Village, Arkansas with his wife in 1987 and was a member of the Village United Methodist Church.
www.hsvvoice.com /News/2003/0507/Obituaries/027.html   (259 words)

  
 Carnegie Corporation - About
Richard H. Brodhead, the ninth president of Duke University, joined Carnegie Corporation's Board of Trustees in December 2004.
Brodhead has also been active in the Nineteeth-Century American Literature Division of the Modern Language Association.
Brodhead received a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale College and a M. Phil.
www.carnegie.org /sub/about/r.brodhead.html   (259 words)

  
 Duke Magazine-Between the Lines-November/December 2004
He recalls that students "turned out in massive numbers" to hear Brodhead, who "could lecture as well as anybody I have seen in my entire life." Later, Brodhead helped inspire and direct Ferraro's dissertation, which looked at how immigrant literature has been received.
Brodhead impressed on him the value of intellectual risk-taking.
When Brodhead received tenure at Yale, Ferraro recalls, the graduate students "took it as a victory for everybody." They threw him a big party and gave him a first edition of Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady.
www.dukemagazine.duke.edu /dukemag/issues/111204/depbtw.html   (301 words)

  
 Richard H. Brodhead - Yale University :: Office of Public Affairs
Richard H. Brodhead is Dean of Yale College and A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University.
Brodhead has consulted widely on educational issues and served on the editorial boards of several publications in the humanities, among them American Literary History and PMLA.
Professor Brodhead is married to Cynthia Degnan Brodhead and has one son.
www.yale.edu /opa/brodhead   (496 words)

  
 News 14 Carolina | 24 Hour Local News | HEADLINES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
That choice ends a 30-year career at Yale University but Brodhead says his time there prepared him well for his new job and the tough tasks ahead, such as helping search for a new leader of the university's health system.
Brodhead earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Yale University.
To learn more about Richard Brodhead, read the official release from Duke University.
rdu.news14.com /content/headlines?ArID=40159&SecID=2   (331 words)

  
 Yale Alumni Magazine
In welcoming the Class of 1998 to Yale College, President Richard C. Levin reminded his audience that the path to self-discovery should be neither unwavering nor short.
The inauguration of Richard C. Levin as Yale's 22nd president on October 2 proceeded with unprecedented informality, but the gravity of the occasion was evident to all.
In his inaugural address as Yale's 22nd president, Richard C. Levin called for an increased awareness of the university as part of a larger intellectual and social environment.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /archive/president.html   (949 words)

  
 Duke University's Weekend Hate Fest
Duke University, under the leadership of its president, Richard Brodhead, and most notably its Vice President for Governmental Affairs, John Burness, continues to whitewash the anti-Semitic and anti-American event still scheduled for this weekend on the Durham campus despite misrepresentation by the organizers over the event’s real purpose.
Duke President Richard Brodhead was inaugurated only weeks ago and has lowered Duke’s reputation by making Duke a training base to spread pro-terrorist hatred.
Brodhead and Burness are perfectly willing to let the organizers ban the press from strategy-and-training sessions.
www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org /archive/October2004/DukeConferenceLeeKaplan101504.htm   (3038 words)

  
 Oxford University Press: The School of Hawthorne: Richard H. Brodhead
In The School of Hawthorne, Brodhead uses Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born.
Under Brodhead's scrutiny, the Hawthorne tradition opens out onto a wide array of subjects, many of which have received little previous attention.
As he traces Hawthorne's continued life among his heirs, Brodhead also reflects on the ways in which writers receive and resist official tradition, how their work is conditioned by the institutionalized pasts that surround them, and how they go about creating new traditions to counter existing ones.
www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/?view=usa&ci=0195060709   (450 words)

  
 The Times Plus, Monroe Times, Monroe, Wisconsin, USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
BRODHEAD -- Earl Richard Pinnow, age 92, of Brodhead, passed away on Monday, August 2, 2004 at his home.
He also was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Brodhead, and had served on the church council.
He was a past member of the Farm Bureau, assessor for Spring Grove Township, served on school boards for rural schools, and was a 4-H leader.
www.themonroetimes.com /d0803ppi.htm   (275 words)

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