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Plenty of professors complain when teaching duties cut into their research time, but soon those who wish to do something about it will face changes to the course buyouts system.
Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, spoke about the "first 100 days" since he took over the position July 1 at the Academic Council meeting Thursday.
Conflicting opinions kept the Arts and Sciences Council far from consensus Thursday as members debated the contentious issues of faculty compensation for performing extra duties and student access to course evaluation data.
Money makes the world go ’round—so goes a saying particularly relevant for the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. A $1.6 million endowment for undergraduate teaching and research the center received in 2002 has propelled the expansion of its increasingly popular offerings for undergraduates in the classroom and beyond the University’s borders.
President Richard Brodhead melded idealistic vision and current campus affairs at his first Annual Report to the University Faculty meeting Thursday.
With no red and orange lights or stopwatches in sight, the speakers at Tuesday night’s panel on global outsourcing—the migration of U.S. jobs overseas, where labor tends to be cheaper—had plenty of time to discuss the issue from a thoughtful, intellectual perspective that several participants noted has been absent from the presidential debates.
When will you be finishing your thesis? For two-thirds of Trinity students, the answer is, “Never.”
Professors and deans discussed how best to turn undergraduates into researchers at Thursday’s meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council.
Provost Peter Lange took center stage for much of the Academic Council’s first meeting of the year Thursday, fielding a spirited question about the iPods distributed to freshmen and delivering the annual report of the Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee. Recipients of the Faculty Scholar Award were also in the limelight.
Nearly a year after administrators abolished the Dean's Excuse, undergraduates and professors remain largely unfamiliar with the new Short-Term Illness Notification Policy.
After five years of successful hiring, construction and fundraising at the School of Law, Katharine Bartlett was reappointed as Dean of the School of Law. Bartlett hopes to build on her accomplishments of the last few years in the realm of faculty hiring.
Few graduate students attended the Student Activities Fair, but Heather Dean, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, was there making the most of the event. The many demands on her time did not keep her from spending part of the sweltering Saturday afternoon visiting the tables of groups with which GPSC coordinates some of its efforts.
Laney Funderburk, associate vice president for alumni affairs and development and director of the office of alumni affairs, will step down from his post--which he held for 22 years--at the end of 2004.
Pasha Majdi's Cameron Crazy credentials are better than most. He's been a member of tent No. 1 and usually has a seat at center court for every game. Already a leader in the stands, he now hopes to become the next leader of Duke Student Government.
Despite the summer installation of DukeCard readers by the bathroom doors in Kilgo Quadrangle and Southgate Dormitory, residents still have to keep track of their bathroom keys.
Loud noises cannot put the brakes on Campus Council--a good thing for the group in charge of planning the Last Day of Classes.
Although students generally consider the prospective changes to the short-term illness policy a good idea, many remain concerned that people might abuse a more trust-based policy. An unexpectedly long interim period after the old policy's expiration has frustrated a few, but the most common sentiments regarding the policy changes range from ignorance to reservation to relief.
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