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Finding ways to maintain campus security, spur the creative arts and alleviate the housing crunch--with 200 more engineering students at the doorstep--topped the list of questions for Provost Peter Lange and Executive Vice President Tallman Trask at their semi-annual joint meeting before the Graduate and Professional Student Council and the Duke Student Government Tuesday night.
Paranoid or...justified?
Roughly a thousand new beds for graduate and professional students may make their way onto Central Campus as soon as two years from now, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta told the Graduate and Professional Student Council Tuesday night.
Even in old photographs, John Spencer Bassett looks a beat off from the rest of the world, leaning slightly on a garden urn in a shot from 1890 as others sit and stand up straight around him. A profile taken later in life captures him gazing out at the world with the same youthful tenacity, even as his hair threatens to depart with the swiftness of a moment in fame. But then, if you look closely enough, right around the corners, that tinge of generosity, of illogical, raging optimism, pokes out at you.
Work on a new student Internet portal, which the Office of Information Technology has had in the works for several months, will begin Dec. 17, officials announced at the Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting Tuesday night.
As the Arts & Sciences budget crunch continues, several of the largest social sciences departments have had to scale back their adjunct professor appointments and course offerings--all in the hope that they will be able to hire more full-time faculty with the money saved.
Speaking from his wheelchair, Michael Stein, an associate professor at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at The College of William and Mary, outlined his schematic for reassessing the employment process for disabled workers before an audience of about 100 Thursday.
Kemel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, contrasted Duke's facilities with the Yale University system he presided over for eight and a half years as an associate vice president while members of the Graduate and Professional Student Council peppered him with questions and comments Tuesday night.
Former University President Douglas Knight led an audience of 60 on a nostalgia-tinged journey through his tumultuous six-year reign as one of the University's most influential leaders and the man who set the course for Duke's rise to national prominence.
With a line wrapping around the Chapel Quad and a jam-packed Page Auditorium awaiting his wisdom and humor, jack-of-all-trades Ben Stein met high expectations in an hour-and-a-half long speech Saturday afternoon.
Oft-neglected in recent years, the movement for women's professional development and mentorship has found a new spark in the efforts of two undergraduates.
Taking aim at overcrowding and other parking snafus across campus, Graduate and Professional Student Council members took a draft parking survey at last night's meeting.
Drifting through the Bronx without a home, a dime or a prayer, then-18-year-old Liz Murray had it all figured out.
Standing on the bricks of Harvard Square one day in 1964, Jonathan Kozol was just a few yards away from graduate school and a nice, safe career as a tenured professor of English. Kozol--who spoke last night to an audience of 250 in the Griffith Film Theater--already had the Harvard education, the Rhodes scholarship, the expatriate years in Paris; all that remained was the application form.
From the depths of the Blue Zone, the first echoes of bass creep up the hill, flying on the back of Frisbees and footballs and scattered wisps of smoke. As the cars start to thin out, a caravan of RVs appears on the horizon. Next, the grills and Beirut tables come into view. Then, finally, there are the students--1,250 in all, hailing from the Fuqua School of Business, the Nicholas School of the Environment, the law school, the medical school, the divinity school and the graduate school. As the sun sets on summer, basketball season has come at last to Duke.
Nipping at the heels of equivalent programs at Harvard, Stanford and Princeton universities, the economics department has begun a major overhaul to bring its doctoral candidates one step closer to the top dogs.
Basketball fever is here. Well, almost.
"I'm Bart Simpson. Who the hell are you?"
With a typical student debt load of over $80,000 after law school, it's no wonder that many aspiring attorneys dodge the public interest route.
Budgets and introductions dominated the Graduate and Professional Student Council's first meeting of the year Tuesday night, as the council reached out to its constituents by sharply increasing funds to social initiatives and group projects.
