Full Video Interview with Purdue University President Mung Chiang

In this special episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re talking to the 13th president of Purdue University, Mung Chiang.
Listen in as President Chiang discusses the day he learned he would become president of what he calls “the most consequential public university in the U.S.” He also shares stories of Boilermaker persistence and humility and why the college experience should be both transformative and fun.
Plus, he shares more about his family life (the Chiangs will be the first Purdue family to live in Westwood Manor with young children), hobbies, and the best spot in West Lafayette to grab his favorite sweet treat - ice cream.
President Chiang, who officially became Purdue’s president on Jan. 1, 2023, is also the Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
You don’t want to miss this chance to get to know Purdue’s new president on a more personal level!
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[@littlecooky1099]

We are lucky to have you as our leader, Dr. Chiang!

[@imoknu]

Purdue seems to have found a worthy successor to the legendary Mitch Daniels. Best of luck to you Dr. Chiang in taking Purdue to even greater heights. Boiler up!

[@1990mry]

Wow, Chiang can SPEECH!

[@johnmeng5102]

Good luck Dr. Chiang!

[@KrazyKittyTailz]

Best wishes in your Administration, Dr. Chiang....BOILER UP!! (-Tom BS/MSEE).

[@pradeeppandey8404]

Great institute ❤ Purdue

[@nesphra1094]

What a beautifully outspoken man.

[@meganhoskins5024]

Wow, loved this! Great conversation!

[@Sookim2698]

Great Purdue

[@mikehunt368]

i don’t know much.. but one thing i can confirm…. his brain works more efficiently than mine 🤭 #ope

[@xxx4651]

I just met him twice today accidentally, and figured he bought a house close to Westwood for his family.😂

[@natesnautical]

Not sure who did they lighting. The DP Cocked this up. The exposure needs to be dropped also maybe the lighting reduced. There skin tones, are burning out. This is very hard to watch, and the audio is clipping ;(

[@avonneyang8402]

A Poem to Memorialize Purdue’s Eternal Shame of Institutional Racism: The Pale One at Purdue Northwest mocks a grieving family Many Pale Ones flash white teeth in delight Anguish in the hearts, pain in the soul of the grieving family A Judas from the grieving family accepts silver coins in exchange for a smile instead of mockery from the Pale Ones The curtain falls Darkness comes Now blood everywhere but silence from the Pale Ones at the Purdue home in the West Who to blame? This is not a game Who to blame? Search your heart Transform your soul Now ask again: Who to blame?

[@edalbanese6310]

What now? What do you mean?

[@avonneyang8402]

@@edalbanese6310 A Poem to Memorialize Purdue’s Eternal Shame of Institutional Racism: The Pale One at Purdue Northwest mocks a grieving family Many Pale Ones flash white teeth in delight Anguish in the hearts, pain in the soul of the grieving family A Judas from the grieving family accepts silver coins in exchange for a smile instead of mockery from the Pale Ones The curtain falls Darkness comes Now blood everywhere but silence from the Pale Ones at the Purdue home in the West Who to blame? This is not a game Who to blame? Search your heart Transform your soul Now ask again: Who to blame? [end of poem] The Meaning of the Poem: Asian Americans are still grieving from having their family members killed by racists. The grieving family refers collectively to Asians in the U.S. The Pale One at Purdue Northwest is Keon. The Pale Ones are Whites. Judas is Mung Chiang, Purdue Univ. President who is too afraid to speak up to Whites and wants to keep his job with the racists, so as long as they pay him a salary and smile to his face without mocking him, he will continue to keep silent on Keon's racism and Purdue's institutional racism. The line about “Blood everywhere but silence from the Purdue home in the West” refers to Asian Americans being killed and harmed by racists, and yet, the White people in the parent institution (Purdue University) and Mung Chiang's supporters there remain silent, because they are too ashamed and too cowardly to speak out against anti-Asian racism. “Blood everywhere” also refers to the Monterrey shooting where an Asian American man used a gun to kill many Asian Americans. It alludes to the fact that guns are very easy to obtain and to the fact that most killers using guns are men. It points out the need for USA to control guns so that not just anyone including unstable ones like this man can just walk off the street and get a gun and use it to kill. It holds politicians and voters responsible for making sure that we have practical, sane gun control laws in place to make sure people get background checks and that military-style assault rifles do not get sold to just anyone who walks off the street. It holds us all accountable for asking ourselves if these types of guns should be sold to civilians."Blood everywhere" also refers to the Half Moon Bay mass shooting. It makes us think about how we each need to work towards just laws and just pay for working class folks like the killer so that they feel less oppressed and less likely to snap and turn their anger into killing. "Blood everywhere" also refers to Asian Americans who may feel oppressed like this killer at Half Moon Bay who are so sick and tired of oppression that the racist behavior like how Purdue has mishandled the Keon racist incident may just be the "last straw on the camel's back" that drive them to retaliate against Whites with gun violence. The question about who to blame asks us all to reflect on what racism does to victims--how it harms them psychologically as I described above--and how if we do nothing to fight the racism, we all are to blame for the violence that they lash out in retaliation. We all need to care. Even the racists need to care, because they bleed just like non-racists, so when victims lash out at them, they bleed, too.

[@genetung8590]

What nonsense gibberish do you speak of? Meritocracy reigns at Purdue, not wokeism.

[@janexian9232]

He speaks like a robot

[@seifmehelmy3867]

Such waffle

[@alicezoom]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXaVhZKDmqdsb6c: “Deep down in our non-violent creed is the conviction there are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they're worth dying for. And if a man happens to be 36 years old, as I happen to be, some great truth stands before the door of his life--some great opportunity to stand up for that which is right. He’s afraid his home will get bombed, he's afraid that he will lose his job or he's afraid that he will get shot, or beat down by state troopers, he may go on and live until he's 80. He's just as dead at 36 as he would be at 80. At the cessation of breathing in his life is merely the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. He died. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true. So we're going to stand up right here amid horses. We're going to stand up right here in Alabama, amid the billy-clubs. We're going to stand up right here in Alabama amid police dogs, if they have them. We're going to stand up amid tear gas!We're going to stand up amid anything that they can muster up, letting the world know that we are determined to be free!"-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-3

[@thuongpham7208]

Great Purdue