Vincent Price is an American academic administrator serving as the 10th and current President of

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. Price was previously the 29th Provost of the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

before replacing

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as President of Duke University.

Education

Price studied at

Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university's campus surrounds the historic Mis ...

where he received a

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in English in 1979. He received a

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in Communication from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 1985, followed by a

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in 1987.

Career

Price was the chair at the Department of Communication Studies at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

prior to his tenure at the University of Pennsylvania. While at UPenn he held the positions of Interim Provost, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs, Chair of the Faculty Senate, and Associate Dean of the

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. Price served as the

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of the ''

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'' from 1997 to 2001. Price was announced as the 10th President of

on December 2, 2016, and he assumed office on July 1, 2017. Since 2017, Price has served as a trustee of the

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. Since 2017 he has lived in the

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, the official residence for Duke's presidents.https://myatlascms.com/map/accessible.php?id=21&cId=179&mId=3916 Price wrote a book entitled ''Public Opinion'' in 1992. It was reviewed in the ''

'' by John P. Robinson, of the

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, who called it an "indispensable and insightful guide to the historical and intellectual roots of our profession". The book is 92 pages long and examines and contrasts the ideas of

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and

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with current laboratory findings of

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and

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. The book examines a lack of consensus on the definition of "

public opinion Public opinion is the collective opinion on a specific topic or voting intention relevant to a society. It is the people's views on matters affecting them. Etymology The term "public opinion" was derived from the French ', which was first use ...

". Robinson wrote that, "The work establishes Price as a major contributor to a field that has yet to address adequately many of the fundamental issues that he has articulated."

Selected works

*''Public Opinion''

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, 1992

Awards and honors

*The International Communication Association's K. Kyoon Hur Dissertation Award. *The American Association in Journalism and Mass Communication's Nafziger-White Dissertation Award. *The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts' Excellence in Education Award. *The World Association for Public Opinion Research's Robert M. Worcester Award. *The American Association for Public Opinion Research's Award of Recognition.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Price, Vincent Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Pennsylvania faculty Chief Administrators of the University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan faculty Academic journal editors Santa Clara University alumni Stanford University alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Presidents of Duke University