Vincent Price (educator)

Vincent Price is an American academic administrator serving as the 10th and current President of Duke University. Price was previously the 29th Provost of the University of Pennsylvania before replacing Richard H. Brodhead as President of Duke. [1]

This article is about the President of Duke University. For other uses, see Vincent Price (disambiguation).
Vincent Edward Price
10th President of Duke University
Assumed office
July 1, 2017
Preceded byRichard H. Brodhead
Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
In office
July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2017
Preceded byRonald J. Daniels
Succeeded byWendell Pritchett
Personal details
Alma materSanta Clara University (BA)
Stanford University (MA, PhD)

Education

Price studied at Santa Clara University where he received a B.A. in English in 1979.[2] He received a Master's Degree in Communication from Stanford University in 1985, followed by a Ph.D in 1987.[2]

Career

Price was the chair at the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan prior to his tenure at UPenn.[3] While at UPenn he held the positions of Interim Provost, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Chair of the Faculty Senate, and Associate Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Price served as the editor-in-chief of the Public Opinion Quarterly from 1997 to 2001.[3]

Price was announced as the 10th President of Duke University on December 2, 2016, and he assumed office on July 1, 2017. Since 2017, Price has served as a trustee of the National Humanities Center at Research Triangle Park.

Price wrote a book entitled Public Opinion in 1992.[3] It was reviewed in the Public Opinion Quarterly by John P. Robinson, of the University of Maryland, College Park, who called it an "indispensable and insightful guide to the historical and intellectual roots of our profession".[4] The book is 92 pages long and examines and contrasts the ideas of Plato, John Locke and Walter Lippman with current laboratory findings of group dynamics and cognitive psychology.[4] The book examines a lack of consensus on the definition of "public opinion".[4] Robinson wrote that, "The work establishes Price as a major contributor to a field that has yet to address adequately many of the fundamental issues that he has articulated."[4]

Selected works
  • Public Opinion SAGE, 1992[3]

Awards and honors

References
  1. "About the Provost". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  2. "CV" (PDF). Vincent Price. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  3. "Vincent Price, Ph.D." The Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania. 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
  4. Robinson, John P. (1993). "Public Opinion. by Vincent Price". The Public Opinion Quarterly. 57 (4): 614–617. JSTOR 2749490.
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