Peak past at Career Center as year ends
With less than three weeks until graduation, most of the visitors to the Career Center are looking for Baccalaureate tickets, not jobs.
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With less than three weeks until graduation, most of the visitors to the Career Center are looking for Baccalaureate tickets, not jobs.
Salary data prompted plenty of discussion at the Academic Council’s meeting Thursday, the first session attended by the 2005–2006 members.
Lee Baker, associate professor of cultural anthropology, will be the next chair of the Arts and Sciences Council, outgoing chair Kathy Ewing announced Thursday at the council’s final meeting of the year.
More professors have opted in, making their course evaluations available on ACES, but Duke Student Government still plans to forge ahead with its own website.
Few speakers carry a duffel bag full of dogs onto stage with them—but then, Amy Tan is far from ordinary.
New doctoral programs arise once in a blue moon—which makes this year’s expansion of the Graduate School’s offerings remarkable.
Continuing the lengthy process of planning the redevelopment of Central Campus, administrators sought out faculty opinions at Thursday’s Academic Council meeting.
Does academic freedom extend to classroom discussions of the war in Iraq?
Geoffrey Brennan’s class on the Prisoners’ Dilemma and Distributive Justice is on the move—literally.
Faced with competing demands for limited funds, the Committee on Faculty Research is battling the bottom line.
Top scholars don’t just have lots of publications. Their writings also have a powerful influence on future research.
For many students, the reason some professors have longer titles than others may seem a mystery, but plenty of thought, time and effort goes into the awarding of distinguished professorships. An improvement to the procedure of distributing these honors earned faculty approval at last week’s meeting of the Academic Council.
Faculty members have plenty on their plates—fitting in research, teaching and administrative duties is a challenge. Still, Duke professors are achieving a balance.
Everyone knows that professors do more than just grade student papers. What some might not realize is how many duties outside of research and teaching can be part of the job.
Most economics and computer science majors are accustomed to discussion sections taught by one of their fellow undergraduates. This semester, humanities students are sharing this experience for the first time.
For students who are still waffling between a couple of courses, chances are they won’t be getting much help from course evaluations. Student government officials are working to change that.
Transition and planning marked the first year of the new Faculty Diversity Initiative, Provost Peter Lange reported at the Academic Council meeting Thursday.
Searching far and wide revealed that the best person to head Duke’s libraries was already here. Administrators announced Dec. 21 that Deborah Jakubs, formerly director of collections services, would become the new Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian.
As students choose their classes during Drop/Add period, many will still have to do so without one potential source of information: their peers’ course evaluations.
The devil is in the details and the diction of proposed changes to the harassment policy, said several faculty members who voiced their concerns at Thursday’s Academic Council meeting.