Duke to address graduate integrity
As the Academic Integrity Council begins to discuss ways to foster undergraduate honesty in classes and research, it will also consider the matter among the graduate and professional student population.
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As the Academic Integrity Council begins to discuss ways to foster undergraduate honesty in classes and research, it will also consider the matter among the graduate and professional student population.
A proposed reduction in medical benefits for retired employees was the subject of debate at Thursday's meeting of the Academic Council, where Executive Vice President Tallman Trask explained the plan in detail.
The Arts and Science Council heard reports on the University's progress in technology at its meeting Thursday.
Only days after the announcement of the new housing lottery plan, student reaction to the policy--which gives seniors priority for singles and juniors priority for doubles and triples--has been overwhelmingly negative.
Two years after the implementation of Curriculum 2000, administrators say most students are on track to meet their graduation requirements.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa delivered a message of solidarity to a sold-out Page Auditorium Sunday. Walesa, who was instrumental in bringing about the fall of communism in Poland, gave some historical perspective on communism, but focused primarily on globalization and his predictions for the 21st century.
The University is on track to meet its black faculty recruitment goals, said Provost Peter Lange at Thursday's meeting of the Academic Council. But he said the initiative still faces several challenges.
The Arts and Sciences Council approved a new course evaluation form Thursday with fewer questions and more space for student comments. But it did delay a vote on making data from fall 2001 courses available online; data from spring 2001 courses will still be available online within the next month.
In the wake of last week's announcement of the new residential policy, independent student reaction has varied, largely depending on what students consider best for themselves.
Duke experts discussed the impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on financial markets Monday night at the Fuqua School of Business in the third of five forums.
When David Beratan was an undergraduate at Duke 20 years ago, many buildings on campus, including the Bryan Center, were not yet completed. The Gross Chemistry Building, however, was already built. So when Beratan returned to the University this fall as R.J. Reynolds Professor of Chemistry, he found himself in familiar surroundings.
The University continues to plan an additional wing to the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, just seven years after its construction.
As each new year rolls around, students must make a biannual pilgrimage to that most special of places--the bookstore. But they are rarely happy when they check-out with their books and see the cost--a cost estimated at over $820 per year by Duke's financial aid office.
The Academic Council, meeting for the first time this year, debated a report on the possibility of expanding its ranks to include regular rank non-tenure faculty.
At its first meeting of the year, the Arts and Sciences Council heard plans for an addition to Perkins Library as William Chafe, dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, outlined budget and space concerns for the council to address this year.
As a teacher, Ronald Witt has been known to intimidate freshmen on the first day of class with pretend German accents and esoteric debates about the best translations of foreign literature. But when he chairs his first Arts and Sciences Council meeting today, the history professor expects to bring a more earnest approach.
Following last spring's recommendations from the Academic Integrity Assessment Committee, the University will soon assemble a council dedicated to the issue.
The White Lecture Hall, a building on the cutting edge of technology, hosted classes for the first time last Monday.
This semester's switch from green to orange course evaluation forms is more than just an aesthetic change: It also reflects a new focus for these documents.
Keeping the emphasis on getting students adjusted to the academic and social challenges of college life, Duke's early matriculation program will undergo several changes before its second run this summer.