Name: Carly Fiorina Lecture at JMU
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I'm Jon Alger, president of James Madison University and it's my great pleasure to welcome

you to this fifth event of the Madison Vision Series.

Through the Madison Vision Fund we are proud to sponsor the Madison Vision Series and want

to thank the series cosponsor, the office of Madison Institutes in Outreach and Engagement

as well as all the supporters of the fund who have made this series possible.

Our bold new vision statement talks about becoming the national model of the engaged

university, engaged with ideas, and the world.

This model of engagement has several facets in our strategic plan including engaged learning,

community engagement and civic engagement.

As a member of the James Madison University Board of Visitors, today's speaker has played

an important role in the development of our strategic plan and in articulating the importance

of these interrelated forms of engagement.

It has a been a joy and a privilege to work with Carly Fiorina, a nationally renowned

strategic thinker and supporter of higher education as we breathe life into this vision

Carly has brought a national perspective, a thoughtful and constructive critical thinking

skills and a positive spirit to our discussions over the past year.

Probably most of you know that she's one of the world's leading business executives.

The former CEO of Hewlett Packard, a high tech giant.

Many of you may also know that she has run for the US Senate, that she's in high demand

on the national television talk show circuit and is a cancer survivor.

A few of you might even know that she briefly attended law school.

As a recovering lawyer myself I will refrain from telling any lawyer jokes, but Carly I'll

But, did you know that Carly launched her career from the foundation of a bachelor's

degree from Stanford in medieval history and philosophy.

Carly is a poster woman for the modern value and relevance of a liberal arts education.

She exemplifies lifelong learning and her journey has not followed some cookie cutter

She has blazed her own path with hard work, determination, a resilient spirit and a can-do

Among many other things Carly has been a role model for engaging women in leadership, and

also for creative philanthropy that addresses urgent needs in the 21st Century.

Carly currently chairs Good 360, the world's largest product philanthropy organization

which helps companies donate excess merchandise to charities.

She has also established Carly Fiorina Enterprises to focus on powerful levers for unlocking

human potential, which include championing entrepreneurship and innovation and building

She's using her skills and experience to live out the JMU motto that calls for all of us

to Be the Change we want to see in the world.

Carly's presentation today, Foundations of Ethical Reasoning, builds on recent calls

to action for American universities to return their focus to undergraduate education.

The title should sound familiar as it echo's our own new signature initiative here, the

Madison Collaborative, Ethical Reasoning in Action.

We believe that the Madison Collaborative and our own strategic plan provide a powerful

set of answers to the questions that many people are currently raising today as they

call upon higher education to focus more on actual student learning outcomes and on preparing

students to face real world problems and challenges.

We're excited that Carly agreed to serve on JMU's Board of Visitors and are especially

pleased that she has been willing to come to campus this week to share some of her own

personal story, her perspectives and her passion.

Please join me in welcoming Carly Fiorina to the stage today.

I am delighted to be with you this afternoon and I must say that I'm honored as well to

serve as a member of the Board of Visitors and so excited by the leadership that Dr.

Alger is bringing to this wonderful university.

I appreciate so much that very gracious introduction and whenever I'm given an introduction like

that I always reflect on the fact that it sort of sounds so smooth.

You know, well she had a degree in medieval history and then she became a CEO and the

truth is no success story is without its setbacks; no one who has had triumphs has also avoided

I've had triumphs and tragedies, which I'll talk about successes and setbacks, but of

course no one's life is as smooth as a gracious introduction would imply.

I grew up a middle child and as a middle child I was, I would say, probably kind of a dutiful

I always felt somehow less everything, less intelligent, less gifted, less popular, less.

And I remember when I was about eight years old my mother gave me a plaque at church and

the plaque said: "What you are, is God's gift to you; what you make of yourself is your

And it became sort of a challenge for me, growing up.

What are my gifts; what should I make of myself?

I went off to Stanford as Dr. Alger said and because my parents were putting three kids

through college at the same time and Stanford was a pretty expensive place to go to school,

I had to work while I was going to school and so, thanks to my mother, who when I was

in junior high insisted that I take typing lessons, I know those of you who are students

here don't even know what I'm talking about probably, but we did in fact used to type

on things called typewriters and so I put myself through school, help my parents put

me through school by typing during college.

Now the term Kelly Girl is politically incorrect these days; now I think they're called Kelly

Temporary Personnel, but back then we were Kelly Girls.

We were young women who would go into offices temporarily and type.

And one of my very first jobs while I was a sophomore at Stanford was to type coincidentally

bills of lading in the shipping department of Hewlett Packard.

And I date myself because I remember very well as a very young woman who had no idea

what I was going to do with my life, I remember interacting with my fellow workers, all women

and at the time the big technology breakthrough -- now I'm really going to date myself -- the

big technology breakthrough was the IBM Selectric typewriter.

Again, for you students, this is a lesson in ancient history but the IBM Selectric typewriter

had this little ball with all the letters on it and when you typed it would spin around

and it was just a breakthrough and so we would watch, literally, I remember sitting at our

desks and watching the ball going around and 'round, wow was that an amazing innovation!

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