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I am grateful to the Editorial Board for supporting Duke’s efforts to be a leader in online education in their April 15 editorial. With our venture into online education, we seek to create opportunities to enrich our current offerings and to help improve what we already teach. The potential benefits to Duke students and faculty are considerable.
I read the op-ed, “Winds of change” by Antonio Segalini, in The Chronicle Nov. 9 with interest. I appreciate his concern for the political science department, the implications of its proposed move to Gross Chem and the process that has gone into determining whether and how that move will occur. Any move of a department, which necessarily involves some disruption for faculty, students and staff, deserves careful thought, no matter how necessary or inevitable. I would suggest, however, that the writer would have been well advised to contact Dr. Trask or myself to find out what we actually intend, rather than rely on secondhand information or his own speculation. Here are the facts: It is a firm commitment, communicated clearly to the faculty of political science, that Gross Chem will be a transitional site for a period of two years or less, after which political science will have a fully integrated, unified and renovated permanent home in Old Chem. The space there into which the department is moving is currently occupied by the earth and ocean sciences department of the Nicholas School, which will be moving to the new wing of the LSRC designed for the school, when that is completed. That move will, for the first time, allow the Nicholas School to house all its Durham-campus faculty under one roof.
Just another Duke weekend - and it's only Sunday morning....
Recently, the Organization of American Historians--the leading scholarly association in the nation focusing on American history--honored John Hope Franklin for his extraordinary career. Franklin, together with Duke's Anne Firor Scott and historian Gerda Lerner, who is currently a visiting professor at Duke, received the organization's distinguished service award for having reshaped the agenda of American history with their work on black and women's history.
