哈佛首位黑人女校長開學(xué)致辭：改變自己才能改變世界！

For me, one of the most inspiring aspects of being part of our university is knowing that the gap between can and will is narrower here at Harvard.

對我來說,身為我們大學(xué)的一員，最歡欣鼓舞的一點就是知道——在哈佛,“能力”和“意愿”之間的鴻溝很小。

We dare to reach, encouraged by colleagues and by classmates, emboldened by a history of extraordinary achievement.

在同事和同學(xué)的鼓勵下,在非凡成就歷史的激勵下,我們敢于達(dá)成目標(biāo)。

We dare to change knowing that leadership and impact demand innovation.

因為深知領(lǐng)導(dǎo)力和影響力需要創(chuàng)新，我們勇于改變。

Since my election as president, I've learned more about the aspirations that exist throughout our community.

自當(dāng)選校長以來,我對整個社區(qū)存在的愿景了解得更多。

Aspirations that not only fulfill our mission but also expand, enrich, and celebrate it.

這些愿景不僅實現(xiàn)我們的使命,還擴展、充實并慶祝它。

At events and meetings, in chance encounters and over ice cream, I've gotten to know some of you and to understand what motivates your contributions to the university and your drive to change the world.

在活動和會議上,在偶遇甚至是一起吃冰淇淋時,我認(rèn)識了你們中的一些人,并理解是什么驅(qū)使你們?yōu)榇髮W(xué)做出貢獻和改變世界的動力。

Though our pursuits are vast and varied, we all share something important and essential, a boundless and probing curiosity.

雖然我們的目標(biāo)廣泛多樣,但我們都共享一些重要而本質(zhì)的東西,那就是無窮無盡的好奇心。

I begin my first academic year as president in awe of your ambition, your optimism, your fearlessness, and your talent, and with enormous gratitude for the warm welcome you've given me.

作為校長,我對你們的雄心、樂觀、無畏和才華充滿敬畏,也對你們給予我的熱烈歡迎充滿了無限的感激,開始我的第 一個學(xué)年。

I wish you well in the months to come and I look forward to everything we'll accomplish together.

在未來的幾個月里,我祝你們一切順利,并期待我們將共同取得的一切。

Once again welcome and see you soon.

再次歡迎,期待很快見到你們!

哈佛官網(wǎng)原文報道

President Claudine Gay welcomes Class of 2027, urges them to fearlessly embrace personal transformation

BY：Liz Mineo Harvard Staff Writer

It was a day of firsts.

Harvard President Claudine Gay welcomed the Class of 2027 and exhorted them to lean into the journey that brought them to the present moment and gear up for the transformations that await them in the next four years.

“Let your joy and your pride win out,” said Gay, Ph.D. ’98, who spoke at Tercentenary Theatre on Monday afternoon in the annual Convocation ceremony, officially marking the entry of first-year students into the Harvard community. “Each of you deserves it. Each of you has earned it. Each of you belongs here.

“Each of you will make Harvard stronger and better by being who you are, by sharing your perspective, and by contributing to our mission,” she said. “I know this because I have seen it myself. Year after year, as a faculty member, I witnessed extraordinary transformations in students, profound shifts in understanding and awareness across every dimension of being.”

Yesterday was also an extra special Convocation for Gay, marking her first as president of Harvard. Gay succeeded Larry Bacow, who stepped down in June, after serving as Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 2018. Gay, who was also Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and a professor of African and African-American studies, urged the students to be prepared to overcome feelings of self-doubt that may arise at times during their undergraduate years.

She noted such insecurities are difficult to avoid, recounting an incident that took place when she was a child. At the age of 11 she began to feel painfully “insufficient” because she lacked a middle name. She feared being thus incomplete might somehow preclude her from “the possibility of reinvention.” When Gay turned to her parents for advice, they simply responded: “Your name is enough.”

“I turned those four words over in my mind, and they have stayed with me all these years, a powerful statement about my inheritance, my identity, and my capacity,” said Gay. “Sometimes, even now, even as president, when I am pushing a pen across paper and signing my name, those four words surface in my mind.”

“At some point between now and Commencement — probably at several points between now and your Commencement — you will feel insufficient. Despite knowing better, you will feel as if everyone around you knows exactly what is going on, as if everyone around you understands something you do not, sees something that you do not. When that happens, I hope you remember this story — and my parents’ wisdom.”

In closing Gay asked students to be willing to be transformed by Harvard by exploring who they are and who they want to become. “You have been given a name, and that is all that you need, but from this day forward you will make a name for yourself,” she said.

“Who can you be? Who will you be?’ said Gay. “These are the questions that you will consider alongside your classmates; in conversation with faculty, proctors, tutors, and deans; and in connection to your own learning and scholarship.

“Take notice of work and ideas that energize and fulfill you. Take notice of your joy and your satisfaction. Take nothing for granted. Be willing to reconsider assumptions for the sake of your present happiness, but also for future contentment.”

Along with Gay, other University officials took part in the ceremony to salute the newest members of the Harvard community, including Thomas Dunne, dean of students at Harvard College. Representing students were Harvard Undergraduate Association co-presidents John Cooke ’25 and Shikoh Hirabayashi ’25.

Rakesh Khurana, A.M. ’97, Ph.D.’98, Martin Bower Professor of Leadership at the Harvard Business School, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Danoff Dean of Harvard College, encouraged students to make the best of their Harvard education by being “open to transformation” and “commit[ting] to something beyond yourself.”

“College is not a stop on the way to the rest of your life,” he said. “This is your life. And these four years of College are where the patterns for your lives will be set. If you spend these years taking no chances, reinforcing your beliefs, deferring any reflection on who you are and what you want, you will be doing the same thing in 20 years.

“In embracing your own transformation, you will be embracing the best that a liberal arts education has to offer,” said Khurana. “To embrace your own transformation may sound like a selfish pursuit when there is so much work to be done in our world. But it is the only way forward. We can only begin to change the world if we are open to changing ourselves.”

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