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This book is a collection of speeches about life within a great research university. I wrote and delivered them while I was serving as president of Cornell University; they are intended to be read by anyone who wonders what higher education should be like in the twenty-first century.
Since 2008 I have been living and working in China, serving first as the leader of the Peking University School of Transnational Law, and now of Shanghai New York University. My time in China has helped to nurture within my American identity something that I call a transnational soul. My life has been much more fulfilling because I have had the opportunity to experience it from several different cultural standpoints.
It has been a privilege for me to participate in a movement to create new Chinese institutions of higher education that prepare the next generation of global leaders to be creative innovators who can bridge cultural differences. Engaging with today’s students in this way has brought a powerful new wave of optimism into my heart.
I hope that you enjoy these speeches, and that as you read them you will share my excitement about the changes that are unfolding around us.
Jeffrey S. Lehman