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University officials have decided that there will no longer be campus-wide shuffling of sections for fraternities and selective living groups, Campus Council President Stephen Temple announced in a town hall-style forum Wednesday.
Arts and Sciences Council went out with a “major” bang Thursday evening.
The Durham police officer who was put on administrative leave for selling counterfeit items is back on duty.
Access to scholarly articles penned by Duke faculty will soon be available to the general public through a digital repository.
Although the primary mission of the University’s budget cuts is to protect undergraduate academics, students may soon feel the effects of a cost-conscious Duke.
Duke Student Government senators passed a resolution to define the “essential and inalienable rights” of Duke undergraduates Wednesday night.
Administrators are hopeful that donations to Duke will rise this fiscal year.
The sign for the Latinos Mart on Hillsborough Road is strangely dilapidated. Barely hanging on to the roof of the building, undulating where the ‘o’ meets the ‘s’, it threatens to fall on the next unsuspecting passerby. The Hispanic grocery store has seen better days.
About 20 to 30 professors will retire under the faculty retirement incentive, Provost Peter Lange estimated last week.
The North Carolina smoking ban extinguished cigarettes in bars and restaurants, but it has also ignited some strong emotions.
Professors and administrators took part in at-times heated debate about the state of the athletics department budget Thursday afternoon at the Academic Council meeting.
Duke may pilot a new educational program in which small groups of students and professors would work together on a project for a semester. At the Arts and Sciences Council meeting Thursday, faculty members were presented with a draft proposal for a program called Duke Immerse that would provide undergraduates with personalized intellectual immersion. Tentatively, the program would have students forgo their traditional four-class regular course load for a semester and instead collaborate with two or three faculty members on a project for eight hours a day. Possible projects include investigating the origins of the universe, analyzing service learning or studying human error. “[We have] such a wealth of faculty who do research and are developing new knowledge and ways to think about things and our students are so bright, doesn’t it make sense that we should get engaged and work together?” said Ruth Day, Arts and Sciences Council chair and associate professor of psychology and neuroscience. Susan Lozier, chair of the Academic Council Committee on Undergraduate Education who submitted the proposal, said the program is still being developed, but the committee hopes to have a pilot program available by summer 2011. “We don’t think it is going to be for every student or for every faculty member, but we do feel that there is a sizable fraction that would be interested,” Lozier said. “The faculty is submitting ideas and developing full proposals and we do feel that it is something that will have faculty very interested.” Interactions between students and faculty would mimic those of start-up companies where members work toward a common goal. The program aims to have a dedicated space on New Campus, once it is constructed, so that the interactions could occur frequently and on an informal basis. “We send students away for study abroad programs for cultural immersion and we have DukeEngage, so what we want to do is provide a strong intellectual immersion that we would have the faculty responsible for here on campus,” she said. Faculty on the council acknowledged that there are many challenges that still need to be addressed such as funding and curriculum, but George McLendon, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences said the program could be something that “captured the imagination of donors.” Last Spring, some Duke Student Government representatives participated in a focus group discussion about the program and Lozier said they were “really enthusiastic” about the idea. Members of the ACCUE hope to go back to DSG once it has formulated a more formal proposal and get their feedback in order to address student concerns such as the program’s time commitment and assessment methods. In other business: McLendon gave an update from the Budget and Priorities Advisory Committee, which included an idea that would save $1 million by using energy more efficiently in the French Family Science Center. He also discussed a way to save money on faculty research accounts by using a different accounting method. The council also discussed expanding to include representatives from the Nicholas School of the Environment, Sanford School of Public Policy, and the international comparative studies and neuroscience departments. Council members may vote on amending their bylaws at their meeting next month. The council reviewed the results of course evaluations and announced that it will work to move evaluations online to be more environmentally friendly.
The final count is in for the second retirement incentive, and the yield was much larger than expected.
Next Fall, sororities could have a space to call their own.
Many women on campus found a survey in their e-mail inboxes Nov. 15 asking if they would be interested in a new housing option for women at Duke.
The students who chose to stay on campus or could not go home for over break were not denied traditional Thanksgiving fare.
The North Carolina State Fair saw record-breaking 877,939 attendees this year—a crowd large enough to prompt safety concerns.
Sharing is caring, or so the saying goes. And when it comes to the ideas behind universities’ use of intellectual property via E-Reserves, publishers are caring more and more about the extent to which their works are being shared.
The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee discussed additions to the Great Hall Monday. The group toured the facilities and learned about the dining hall’s daily operations.
Campus Council is searching for common ground on the common area issue.
