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Transitivity Analysis of Faust’s Speech from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar

Drew Gilpin Faust, who as the first female president of Harvard, her appointment and her thought of running a school exert a vital part for Harvard. Her speeches attracts people’s attention as well as touch people’s hearts so that this research is a transitivity analysis of her freshman convocation address to the class of 2021, in which her speech can reveal relationships between language and meaning, for researchers being conducive to better understand the meaning conveyed by her speeches. Guided by Halliday’s Systemic-Functional Grammar, this paper is apt to explore how transitivity is realized in Faust’s speech, as well as to reveal the deep meaning of her speech. Faust can better grasp transitivity in speech, so as to achieve her purpose and meaning of speech, that is, significance of education to enable to graduates to recognize when someone is talking rot.

The 32 nd OUSL General Convocation Address 2019

The 32 nd OUSL General Convocation Address 2019

Kellogg Foundation CEO to Deliver Convocation Address

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Association NewsFull AccessKellogg Foundation CEO to Deliver Convocation AddressMark MoranMark MoranSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:8 Feb 2019https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2019.2b6AbstractThe Kellogg Foundation CEO has a message of racial healing through dialogue that should resonate with psychiatrists.La June Montgomery Tabron, president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, believes racial healing needs to be rooted in relationship building and shared experience.The Kellogg Foundation CEO has a message of racial healing through dialogue that should resonate with psychiatrists.W.K. Kellogg FoundationThat’s why she also believes psychiatrists have a unique role in addressing disparities and building racial reconciliation. She’ll bring that message to the APA Annual Meeting in San Francisco when she delivers this year’s William C. Menninger Memorial Convocation Lecture, titled, “Psychiatric Leadership to Expand Equity and Well-Being.”Tabron’s address will take place at the Convocation of Distinguished Fellows on Monday, May 20, in the Moscone Center.In comments to Psychiatric News, Tabron said that the founder of the Kellogg Foundation, Will Keith Kellogg, recognized that for children to thrive, adults from every sector of society had to take an active role in removing the barriers to their health and well-being. “Children are at the heart of everything we undertake at the Kellogg Foundation,” she said. “But too many children live in families and communities where racism is a persistent obstacle to health, education, employment, and economic viability. Psychiatrists are in a unique position to recognize the interplay between these circumstances and well-being—physical, mental, economic, and social—and to bring their insight and leadership into addressing community challenges.”As the head of the Kellogg Foundation, Tabron leads its work to support vulnerable children and working families and create conditions necessary for children to thrive. She has played a leadership role in the foundation’s racial equity, diversity, and inclusion work for more than two decades—both internally through work with its board and staff and externally through its work with grantees, partners, and vendors.She helped develop the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (THRT) project, a national and place-based process launched by the Kellogg Foundation in 2016 to bring about a sustainable transformation and address the historic and contemporary effects and consequences of racism.“Our framework for racial equity begins with healing, and healing is deeply relational work,” Tabron told Psychiatric News. “If we want to change society so that it contributes to the health and well-being of more people, racial healing is a good place to begin. Healing lays the groundwork for expanding equity and engaging leaders from every sector into creating the society our children deserve.”APA President Altha Stewart, M.D., said Tabron’s message of racial transformation through dialogue is one that is consistent with her focus during her presidential term on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the practice of psychiatry. Stewart said that Tabron’s message will especially resonate with APA members and others in attendance who have witnessed recent challenges related to the policies and services provided to vulnerable populations—women, children, racial and ethnic minority groups, immigrants, prisoners, and transgender individuals.“Ms. Tabron has been a remarkable and transformational leader at the Kellogg Foundation, bringing people together in communities and creating a space for authentic dialogue, which we as psychiatrists know is the foundation of healing,” she said. “We welcome her as the keynote speaker at our meeting this year in San Francisco and look forward to hearing her message of a role for psychiatry in improving the nation’s health and emotional well-being.”As a community and civic leader, Tabron serves on the Detroit Workforce Development Board, the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, and the Kalamazoo Chapter of the Links Inc. She also serves on the boards of Battle Creek Community Health Partners, Bronson Healthcare Group, and the Kellogg Company. She chairs the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Trust.Tabron holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and a master’s degree in business administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Marygrove College in Detroit and an honorary doctorate from Union Institute and University. She is a certified public accountant and certified management accountant licensed in Michigan. She is also a graduate of the inaugural class of the Council on Foundations’ Career Pathways Program.The W.K. Kellogg Foundation was founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg and is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. ■The Convocation of Distinguished Fellows will be held Monday, May 20, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Hall F, Exhibition Level, Moscone North. ISSUES NewArchived

Challenges and Changes towards a Sustainable Society: Climate, Energy and Education: The 31<sub>st</sub> OUSL General Convocation Address 2018

The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It is the first scholarly journal in Sri Lanka focusing on research in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL), and is being published since 1997. The journal provides a platform to publish research and pedagogy relating to teaching and learning at the University level, and in particular to Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It also provides a forum for research and review articles related in the areas of Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences and Health Sciences.

Convocation Address 2015

It is my honor and pleasure to be given this opportunity to deliver the Convocation Address at the 27th General Convocation ceremony 2015 of the Open University of Sri Lanka. I have structured my talk around the potential of distance education and its relevance to the current job market. I will rely heavily on my experience with the Virtual University of Pakistan, but the thrust of my discourse should be applicable to the broader distance learning arena. Distance education, as you all know, is not a new phenomenon. Over the years, the specific delivery methods and pedagogy have evolved and changed but the basic premise has remained the same: the provision of learning opportunities for knowledge seekers who faced one or more impediments in accessing formal education at conventional campuses. This issue of access to learning is assuming a much higher degree of importance in the current era, the primary reason being the changing face of the job market.

Convocation Address 2014 - Looking Back Looking Forward: The Invention and Reinvention of Distance Education

The Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) has very generously conferred upon me, an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters for my “valuable contributions to the field of distance education regionally and internationally”. This is a tremendous honour for which I am very grateful. It is therefore imperative that I take this opportunity to reflect on the field of distance education, its journey during my lifetime and where it might go in the future. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/ouslj.v7i0.7311 OUSL Journal Vol.7 2014: 123-134

English

It is a proud privilege and a humbling honour for me to be here today to deliver the Convocation Address. While I have been well acquainted with the sterling reputation and remarkable record of SVIMS, it is with awe and admiration that I stand here today on my first visit to its campus. I feel specially blessed to be part of this sacred ceremony, where many young health professionals will be embarking on their professional careers after receiving their richly earned degreesin such a sanctified setting.

McGill Convocation Address: Legal Pluralism in Practice

McGill Convocation Address: Legal Pluralism in Practice. Un article de la revue McGill Law Journal / Revue de droit de McGill (Volume 59, numéro 1, september 2013, p. 1-224) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.

Convocation Address I - Miles to go before I sleep

The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It is the first scholarly journal in Sri Lanka focusing on research in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL), and is being published since 1997. The journal provides a platform to publish research and pedagogy relating to teaching and learning at the University level, and in particular to Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It also provides a forum for research and review articles related in the areas of Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences and Health Sciences.

Convocation Address III - Multiple global problems need integrated solutions: applying the sustainomics framework

The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It is the first scholarly journal in Sri Lanka focusing on research in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL), and is being published since 1997. The journal provides a platform to publish research and pedagogy relating to teaching and learning at the University level, and in particular to Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It also provides a forum for research and review articles related in the areas of Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences and Health Sciences.

The Challenge of Collaboration: Organizational Structure and Professional Identity

The learning encompassed by a baccalaureate degree is not a collection of discrete parts linked to specific classes but rather the cumulative consequence and judgments for all aspects of the learning environment…. Learning takes place from the curriculum and classroom but also through personal development, cocurricular activities, and community activities. —from the president's 2003 convocation address

Borderlands

In its centenary year, the Harvard Theological Review stands at a threshold that reflects Harvard Divinity School's renewed determination to do justice to the cultural and ethnic diversity of our contemporary world, to foster interdisciplinarity, and to enter into dialogue with the social and natural sciences. Davíd Carrasco's Convocation Address at the Harvard Divinity School in September 2006 boldly outlined some of the implications of this resolve, and suggested that we adopt the notion of borderlands not only to refer to the expanding U.S.-Mexican borderlands where diverse cultures, languages, politics and religious practices converge, collide and undergo transformation, but as a lens through which to interpret and understand the dramatically changing religious, social, and cultural landscapes in which we are all living today. It is this existential sense of the term borderlands that Carrasco, Jackson and Premawardhana address in their explorations of the new forms of intellectual identity, academic writing, teaching practice, and religious creativity that arise in the destabilized and transgressive lifeworlds we now inhabit.

Between Biography and Ethnography

My point of departure in this essay is Davíd Carrasco's Convocation Address at the Harvard Divinity School in September 2006. Speaking of the borderlands between Mexico and the United States, Carrasco projects an image of a vexed and ambiguous zone that is not merely geographic or political; it defines an existential situation of being betwixt and between, of struggle and suffering, that Karl Jaspers sums up in the term Grenzsituationen (borders/limit situations). The frontier throws up images of borderline experiences, of a destabilized and transgressive consciousness in which “dreams, repressed memories, psychological transferences and associations” possess greater presence than they do in ordinary waking life, and religious experiences emerge from the unconscious like apparitions. This interplay between borderlands and borderline phenomena—between “the differences we have with others and the conflicts within ourselves” also finds expression in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa. “Mestiza consciousness,” she observes, may be identified with a “juncture … where phenomena collide.” This implies “a shock culture, a border culture, a third country” where migrants find themselves at the limits of what they can endure, border patrol agents are stretched beyond the limits of what they can control, and intellectuals find that orthodox ways of describing and analyzing the world do not do justice to the experiences involved.

Alerts and Provocations Moving American Mores: From Women’s Education to Torture

In the spring of 2006,1 was asked to give the convocation address at Bryn Mawr College (BMC), from which I graduated in 1972. Upon accepting the honor, I did what I had been taught to do there-research. The college provided me with the texts of more than one hundred speeches dating from 1889 when Paul Shorey, a professor of Greek and Latin, addressed the first group of twenty-four graduating students. He told them that BMC was no mere high school for girls but a potent force in the intellectual life of America.1 Speaking in 1919, Bryn Mawr's own president, M. Carey Thomas argued that the inseparable corollaries of rights were suffrage, equal educational opportunity and equal pay for equal work. Not all speakers agreed. Senator George Hoar of Massachusetts advised the graduates of 1898 that every American woman had to understand that it was only her function to be the companion, helper, comfort and nurse of her husband and son and brother in misfortune and sickness and sorrow, but that it is her special function to be his stimulant to heroism and his shield against dishonor. Yet William Howard Taft, giving a commencement speech in 1910 when he was president of the United States, had a very different view. Taft told his audience that actual experiment has shown the claim that there is any difference in favor of man in the quickness of learning, or the thoroughness of acquisition of knowledge, to be entirely unfounded. Indeed . . . the averages of women are higher than that of men. Moreover, as Virginia Woolf advised in her book, A Room of One's Own, President Taft stressed women's economic independence; he urged graduates to enter professions and the business world so that they could be financially independent. Jump forward to 1979 to capture both the speed and the slowness of change. Jeannette Ridion Piccard, described on the roster of speakers as a balloonist, titled her talk Caution. Piccard had entered Bryn Mawr in 1914 and she reported that in 1920, when women got the vote, she expected many doors to open. But Piccard's own efforts to gain ordination as an Episcopal priest proved otherwise; she was not able to take her orders until the 1970s. Like Virginia Woolf, Piccard focused on doors, but for her, they were not a source of solace but a barrier. Piccard counseled that the only way to move forward was by each door being cracked, forced, or unlocked and opened. Issues of nationality, ethnicity, religion, and race enter the archive of speeches during World War II. The first speaker from abroad, coming in 1940, was the Chinese ambassador Dr. Hu Shih, who remarked on Mr. Hitler and his armies, as he told the students that they had to take moral responsibility for the consequences of the decisions they made.2 In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. joined President Robert Goheen of Princeton to speak at graduation and, in the decades thereafter, stellar women and men of all colors can be found as regulars in the ranks of invitees. This set of historical materials provided a window both into changing attitudes and norms about women and race in the United States and into a particular literary genre-the convocation address. Such materials are in need of more scholarly attention as they are an under-mined source of women's histories. Some were wonderful to read and, as a lawyer and a person interested in, if not always loyal to, social customs, I also regarded them as precedents. I wondered about whether-in light of the joy of the occasion-I should raise the subject of torture, intellectually apropos as it, like attitudes toward women, was an example of changing American mores. As justification for mentioning this awful subject when addressing a commencement audience, I could have cited previous speakers who had taken up the topics of war, terrorism, poverty, and hunger. But that was not why I decided to talk about torture in the spring of 2006 or why I have done so on many other occasions since. …

Convocation Address I - Globalisation and its Implication on Education and Human Resource Development

The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It is the first scholarly journal in Sri Lanka focusing on research in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL), and is being published since 1997. The journal provides a platform to publish research and pedagogy relating to teaching and learning at the University level, and in particular to Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It also provides a forum for research and review articles related in the areas of Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences and Health Sciences.

Convocation Address II - Early Education as seen by a student

The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It is the first scholarly journal in Sri Lanka focusing on research in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL), and is being published since 1997. The journal provides a platform to publish research and pedagogy relating to teaching and learning at the University level, and in particular to Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It also provides a forum for research and review articles related in the areas of Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences and Health Sciences.

Convocation Address III - Open Universities - Agents of Change in Knowledge Societies

The OUSL Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal published by the Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL). It is the first scholarly journal in Sri Lanka focusing on research in the field of Open and Distance Learning (ODL), and is being published since 1997. The journal provides a platform to publish research and pedagogy relating to teaching and learning at the University level, and in particular to Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It also provides a forum for research and review articles related in the areas of Agriculture, Natural Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences and Health Sciences.

Convocation address

Convocation address

Introduction

In 2005–2006 Harvard Divinity School observed the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of women to the school, and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Women's Studies in Religion Program. This special issue of the Harvard Theological Review extends the celebration of these two anniversaries by gathering highlights of their intellectual fruit. The year-long celebration began with a convocation at which Harvard President Lawrence Summers joined Divinity School Dean William Graham and the faculty, staff and students in marking the historic anniversary. The convocation address, “A Short Half-Century: Fifty Years of Women at Harvard Divinity School,” is included as the first entry in this issue. Throughout the year, distinguished alumnae delivered prestigious named lectures, and panels recalled particularly salient outcomes of women's presence. The year concluded with a session at which the first women students who entered in 1955 returned to HDS to reflect on their experiences and careers.

Higher ground: ethics and leadership in the modern university

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Articles and Speeches Collaboration and Leadership: Are They in Conflict? 37 The University in the Twenty-first Century 52 The Mission of the Research University 59 Pro Bono Publico: Institutional Leadership and the Public Good 84 Moral Education in the Modern University 98 More Power to the President? 112 The American Campus: From Colonial Seminary to Global Multidiversity 120 ACE Address: The Atwell Lecture 140 The Liberal Arts and the Role of Elite Higher Education 157 Say You Want a Revolution? Well ... 178 When Should a College President Use the Bully Pulpit? 187 Are We There Yet? 192 Part II. Duke University Addresses Opening Convocation Address 209 Inaugural Address 218 The University of the Future 229 Address to the Faculty 241 Threats to Academic Freedom 250 Founders' Day Address 253 Notes 263 Index 277