DSG candidates face off today
In preparation for the Duke Student Government presidential runoff election today, the two remaining candidates focused their positions as each made a final push for votes.
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In preparation for the Duke Student Government presidential runoff election today, the two remaining candidates focused their positions as each made a final push for votes.
Add one more top administrator to the list of those stepping down in the near future - the University's chief financial officer will also be leaving Duke.
Top campus figures reacted with bittersweet surprise to President Nan Keohane's announcement Sunday that she would step down in June 2004.
Although the snow kept the Board of Trustees mostly out of commission during its last meeting in December, the rain did not stop the Board from considering a full plate of proposals at its meeting over the weekend--even if a power outage in the Trustees' planned retreat venue in Winston-Salem forced the Board to neighboring Greensboro.
Four months before current Board of Trustees Chair Harold "Spike" Yoh will retire, the Trustees will likely pick his successor at their meeting this weekend. Yoh will step down in July after three years of directing the Trustees, and speculation has focused upon vice chair and Campaign for Duke co-chair Peter Nicholas as a leading contender to take the reins. Robert Steel, also a vice chair, has also been discussed as a potential chair. "[Nicholas] would certainly be a strong possibility," said Nan Keohane in an interview last month. "We don't know until the Board votes. He's been a very effective vice chair. He'd certainly be a possibility. But we don't have a formal assumption that the vice chair succeeds the chair. Although it often happens, it doesn't always happen. So that's one of the things we have to decide." In addition, the 35-member Board will discuss who will serve as vice chair and of the Board's various committees. "They will be talking about it," said Allison Haltom, vice president and University secretary, who handles much of the planning and organization for the Board. "The actual election takes place at the May Board meeting. But that is certainly on the agenda to discuss." But Yoh said everything will be voted on in this weekend's meeting and everything will be in place. "We want to do it early enough, because although it doesn't stray until July, the important thing is to stay ahead of the power curve," said Yoh, who would not speculate on who would succeed him, however. "It depends on what the Board decides," he said. "We have two great vice chairs." Haltom said the vice chair has historically succeeded the chair, and indeed, Yoh served for three years as vice chair prior to his ascension. Randall Tobias, who served as the Board's chair from 1997 to 2000, also served as vice chair for three years before taking the chairmanship. Nicholas, Trinity '64, a Boston resident and Board member since 1993, currently serves as vice chair with Robert Steel, who has been a member of the Board since 1996. Nicholas became the namesake of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences after providing it a $20 million gift in 1991. He serves as co-chair of the successful $2 billion Campaign for Duke with his wife Ginny, Woman's College '64. At last count, the campaign has raised $2.022 billion, with 10 months remaining until it ends. The Nicholas family has been one of the most generous to Duke, having given over $56 million to the University through the years, making the family Duke's largest individual donor - in absolute dollars - in Duke history. Last year, they provided $25 million to endow university professorships and provide funds for faculty research and equipment support. Also a member of the Trinity College Board of Visitors and Reunion Class chair, Nicholas co-founded the Boston Scientific Corporation in 1979 and is the company's chair. Steel, Trinity '73, also serves as chair of the Duke University Management Company board and has served as national co-chair of the Duke Annual Fund. He is a vice chair of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and is a member of the New York Stock Exchange. Yoh's departure will come after three years of rapid expansion at the University, which saw the capital campaign's goal raised from $1.5 billion to $2 billion. During the Yoh chairmanship, the Board approved the University's academic strategic plan, a new residential life plan and a slew of new facilities from the engineering plaza and Perkins Library renovations to the West-Edens Link dormitory and the Nasher Museum of Art. Dave Ingram contributed to this story.
Continued budget woes and a spike in financial aid costs will keep Arts and Sciences at least at flat growth for the foreseeable future, despite a likely 4.9 percent increase in tuition next year.
Facing increasing economic pressures and slumping income from investments, the Board of Trustees may cut or postpone up to 10 percent of the funding for the University's long-range strategic plan at this weekend's Board meeting, administrators said this week.
Eddie Hull, director of residential life and housing services, is defending new policies for residential advisers, as the plan draws fire from current RAs.
A Department of Education committee's report on Title IX guidelines, set to debut today, will likely challenge schools to find a way to increase and maintain parity for women without cutting opportunities for male athletes.
This is the third story in a five-part series profiling this year's candidates for Duke Student Government president.
If you read the national news over the past month, you might get the impression that Duke University is the kind of place where terrorists regularly come to speak, surgeons fail to adequately check vital data, and proud, beaming parents buy their child's way into the student body.
A critical article in The Wall Street Journal Thursday examined the practice of giving students of wealthy or alumni parents special treatment in admissions processes.
In a display of support for another top university, Duke and several other top-20 universities signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief Tuesday in favor of considering race in admissions.
In an effort to provide professional development for graduate students who may wish to teach in the future, the Graduate School has hired a new administrative coordinator to offer school-wide instruction in teaching at the college level.
To ensure that the economic downturn does not adversely affect the stability of growth in the University's endowment spending, administrators have decided to lower the endowment's payout rate from 10 percent to about 3 percent.
After looking at his company's earnings last quarter, Blair Sheppard was able to deliver the University a nice holiday present - a $1 million check from Duke Corporate Education.
On Vice President for Development Robert Shepard's desk sits a small blue plastic bucket filled with Werther's Original candies.
Duke administrators were mostly disappointed with the $2.2 trillion budget President George W. Bush proposed earlier this week and what it may hold in store for research funding and higher education.
If it takes a village to raise a special undergraduate experience, it takes a lot of money to raise a village.
Richard Liekweg, chief executive officer of Durham Regional Hospital, announced last week that he is stepping down to become CEO of the University of California at San Diego Medical Center.