In a move crowning a 30-year career in higher education, Vincent Price, MA ’85, PhD ’87, has been named the next president of Duke University. Currently the provost at the University of Pennsylvania, he will move to Durham, N.C., this summer and take up his new position on July 1.
“I’m both honored and humbled” by the appointment, Price says, adding that he’s excited to build on Duke’s strengths in fields like technology and biomedicine, and to continue to globalize and diversify the university.
After graduate studies at Stanford, Price began his academic career as a professor in communications at the University of Michigan and later at Penn, holding administrative roles in addition to teaching and conducting research. Price says he’s looking forward to joining the Duke community in a few months. “I think of it as a different opportunity to give back to higher education what I’ve received,” he says. “That all started at Stanford.”
