Gift to support teaching
Two members of the Board of Visitors of Trinity College donated $10 million this week to the University's endowment-the largest gift in the history of the University specifically aimed at supporting undergraduate teaching.
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Two members of the Board of Visitors of Trinity College donated $10 million this week to the University's endowment-the largest gift in the history of the University specifically aimed at supporting undergraduate teaching.
In her report to the Board of Trustees Friday afternoon, President Nan Keohane said the University would begin this year to look at new ways to address concerns familiar to many institutions of higher education, including improving community relations and reviewing the tenure process.
More than 10 years after it was proposed and six years after fund raising began, the University's most ambitious construction project ever-the $79.5 million Levine Science Research Center-still needs just a few more big givers.
In an attempt to relieve student concerns about access to sufficient meeting space on campus, the administration has decided to reverse its policy of restricting availability to rooms that hold expensive audio visual equipment.
The Duke University Police Department arrested Trinity junior Lyndon King Allin, 20, early Thursday morning and charged him with driving while intoxicated, according to an arrest report filed Thursday with the Durham County Magistrate's Office. DUPD later charged Allin with hit and run, as he allegedly attempted to leave the scene of an accident on Flowers Drive.
John Howard, director of faculty recruitment for The National Faculty in Atlanta, will serve as the first full-time director of the Center for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Life, said Maureen Cullins, dean of campus community development.
The University's Board of Trustees meeting at the end of September will be the first to take place under a new structure designed to streamline and focus the board's decision-making process.
Vice President for Institutional Equity Myrna Adams announced this week that the search for a University harassment prevention coordinator would be temporarily suspended while her office considers restructuring the post.
Researchers at the Medical Center have made a substantial leap forward in the search for a way to diagnose accurately Alzheimer's disease.
Richard White, dean of Trinity College and vice provost for undergraduate education, will soon be making the leap from bureaucracy back to botany.
Executive Vice President Tallman Trask is a man who knows how to listen.
President Nan Keohane announced late last week that Elizabeth Kiss, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University, will serve as the first director of the Kenan Program in Ethics starting Jan. 1, 1997.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.-In a tremendous demonstration of love and support, more than 1,000 people gathered at the Centenary United Methodist Church Wednesday to celebrate the life of Stephenson Pope Babcock, Trinity '96, who was killed in a car accident May 24.
After approving a total budget for 1996-97 of $1.06 billion, the Board of Trustees granted final approval May 10 to plans for a $143 million Medical Center construction and renovation project, bringing to a close almost five years of discussion and three and a half years of planning.
As the dust settles around the results of this year's housing lottery, it is clear that Trent Dormitory remains a largely unpopular housing option for many students.
Two University students were robbed at gunpoint Wednesday night in the parking lot outside of T.J. Hoops in Durham.
As the Housing Assignments Office works to compile the results of the first-ever online housing registration process, administrators are evaluating the program and looking at ways to improve it for next year.
As a result of an extensive internal evaluation conducted in response to recent changes in residential life, the Freshman Advisory Counselor program will be dramatically restructured for next year.
While students are scrambling to figure out where they would like to live next fall, some have discovered that becoming a "friend" of a fraternity or selective house may not be quite as easy as it was last year.
Four days into the new online housing registration period, only 1,138 students have submitted their individual housing registration forms, fewer than the housing assignments office expected out of the approximately 4,000 students who need to register.