George Wright, senior adviser to President Eli Capilouto and interim vice president for institutional diversity at UK, has been honored by Duke University, where he received his doctoral degree in history. Pete Comparoni | UK Photo.
DURHAM, N.C. (April 7, 2021) When George C. Wright arrived at Duke as a history Ph.D. student in August 1974, he felt the kind of anxiety that many new graduate students can relate to.
“I was scared to death; I just knew that Duke had made a mistake,” he said.
That anxiety abated, however, when he spoke with his director of graduate studies, the noted historian Anne Firor Scott.
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