Archive: The David Dodds Henry Lecture Series
Founded in 1971, the David Dodds Henry Lecture Series is one of the nation’s oldest endowed lectures dedicated to leadership in higher education. Created to honor David Dodds Henry, president of the University of Illinois from 1955 to 1971, the series reflects his belief that public universities must serve as engines of innovation, opportunity, and societal progress.
Henry guided the institution through a period of unprecedented growth — expanding campus infrastructure, establishing a strong presence in Chicago, strengthening academic programs, and advancing the university’s role as a national center of research and innovation.
Henry believed deeply in the public mission of higher education: to expand opportunity, generate new knowledge, and improve quality of life for the people of Illinois and beyond.
For more than five decades, the series has brought together influential voices in higher education to explore the pressing issues, emerging trends, and leadership challenges colleges and universities face.
Higher Education and the Global Knowledge Economy: Affordability and Accountability Redefined
Twenty-sixth David Dodds Henry Lecture by David Ward, Ph.D.
The California System: Governing and Management Principles and Their Link to Academic Excellence
Twenty-fifth David Dodds Henry Lecture by David P. Gardner, Ph. D.
Public Higher Education: Is the Public Lost?
Twenty-fourth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Constantine W. Curris, Ph. D.
Supporting the Talented Tenth: The Role of Research Universities in Promoting High Achievement Among Minorities in Science and Engineering
Twenty-third David Dodds Henry Lecture by Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
TQM and Other Management Fads: Why Has Their Impact on Higher Education Been so Small?
Twenty-second David Dodds Henry Lecture by James V. Koch, Ph. D.
New Deal, Big Deal: Higher Education in a Conceptual Era
Twenty-first David Dodds Henry Lecture by Stanley O. Ikenberry, Ph. D.
A Society of Learning: A Vision for the Future of the University in the New Millennium
Twentieth David Dodds Henry Lecture by James J. Duderstadt
Beauty in the Bureacracy
Nineteenth David Dodds Henry Lecture by W. Ann Reynolds
Adding Value and Virtue to Higher Education
Eighteenth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Dr. William C. Richardson
Reactionary Thoughts of a Revolutionary
Seventeenth David Dodds Henry Lecture by J. W. Peltason
The Public University for the Twenty-First Century: Beyond the Land Grant
Sixteenth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Walter E. Massey
Higher Education and the Concept of Community
Fifteenth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Alexander W. Astin
(R)evolution in American Higher Education
Fourteenth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Donald N. Langenberg
Beyond Conservation and Liberation: The Education of Our Aspirations
Thirteenth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Linda S. Wilson
The New American University
Twelfth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Frank H. T. Rhodes
Mandate for a New Century: Reshaping the Research University's Role in Social Policy
Eleventh David Dodds Henry Lecture by Donna E. Shalala
Innovation and Tradition in Higher Education
Tenth David Dodds Henry Lecture by John B. Slaughter
The University Presidency: Comparative Reflections on Leadership
Ninth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Martin A. Trow
The Liberal Arts Revisited
Eighth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Hanna Holborn Gray
How We Talk and How We Act: Administrative Theory and Administrative Life
Seventh David Dodds Henry Lecture by James G. March
Quality and Equality in Health Professions Education and Service
Sixth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Lloyd C. Elam
Socially Imposed Costs of Higher Education
Fifth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Howard R. Bowen
The Education of Administration for Higher Education
Fourth David Dodds Henry Lecture by Harlan Cleveland
The Administration of Education for the Health Professionals: A Time for Reappraisal
Third David Dodds Henry Lecture by John R. Hogness
Can We Maintain Quality Graduate Education in a Perdiod of Retrenchment?
Second David Dodds Henry Lecture by David Riesman
The Administration of Higher Education in an Era of Change and Conflict
First David Dodds Henry Lecture by Clark Kerr