the VISION
CHANCELLOR GARY LEON MILLER
Since his arrival in July 2011, Chancellor Miller has emphasized that UNCW’s reputation for academic excellence and affordability will be sustained and nurtured by affirming the university’s commitment to student learning in an environment where teaching, research, service, entrepreneurship, university-community partnerships and the stewardship of place are key values. He imagines a university of national prominence in signature academic programs that combines faculty and student research, community engagement, globalization and education abroad, NCAA Division I athletics and innovative student life programming with a commitment to service.
A video of his installation and a transcript of his remarks will be available on this site April 20.
RECENT READING
Non-fiction
American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen. New York: HarperCollins, 2011
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy by Bill Clinton. New York: Knopf, 2011
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2011
Cape Fear Rising by Philip Gerard. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1997
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour by Lynne Olson. New York: Random House, 2010
DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education by Anya Kamenetz. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne. New York: Scribner, 2010
Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. Watertown, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2009
Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black by John Feinstein. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2011
The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It by Joshua Cooper Ramo. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009
The Downhill Lie: A Hackers Return to a Ruinous Sport by Carl Hiaasen. New York: Knopf, 2008
The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out by Clayton M. Christensen and Henry J. Eyring. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2011
The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University by Louis Menand. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2010
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu. New York: Knopf, 2010
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement by David Brooks. New York: Random House, 2011
The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill by David Gessner. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2011
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. New York: Random House, 2010.
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2011
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin. New York: Viking Press, 2009
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011
Fiction
Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010
The Night Train by Clyde Edgerton. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. San Francisco: McSweeney’s, 2009. New York: Vintage Books, 2010