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(10/23/98 4:00am)
Officials from the Duke University Management Company delivered their semiannual report on the University's investment performance for fiscal 1998 yesterday morning.The Long-Term Pool, which includes the University's endowment and several other funds, grew 20.3 percent in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, said analyst Beth Johnson. The largest of DUMAC's four sectors, the LTP now stands at $1.8625 billion. The endowment alone is $1.3351 billion.
(10/23/98 4:00am)
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, as of this Wednesday, Dartmouth have all announced major enhancements to their financial aid programs that will sweeten the aid packages offered to middle- and lower-income applicants. The list is quite impressive.
(10/23/98 4:00am)
Several members of the Curriculum Review Committee listened intently to undergraduates' concerns last night at the first of two student forums on the proposed Curriculum 2000. Unfortunately, only seven students showed up.
(10/21/98 4:00am)
Since President Bill Clinton signed the Higher Education Act two weeks ago, University administrators have been sifting through the new law to evaluate its possible impact on Duke.
(10/19/98 4:00am)
Alan Kors, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, railed against speech codes, closed judicial hearings and political correctness in an impassioned and inflammatory speech Friday. "In what should be a national scandal... universities have been the scene of a ferocious assault on free speech," he declared.
(10/15/98 4:00am)
The University's new policy to provide health insurance to same-sex domestic partners of graduate students has encountered a roadblock; the North Carolina Department of Insurance has refused to permit Blue Cross/Blue Shield-which carries insurance for graduate students-to offer the option.
(10/14/98 4:00am)
Engineering junior Tom Baxter was arrested Monday on three felony counts based on a child pornography investigation last spring.
(10/09/98 4:00am)
A dozen professors critiqued specific details of the proposed new Trinity College curriculum but provided few major philosophical objections, during the first of four faculty forums on Curriculum 2000.
(10/07/98 4:00am)
Duke University Police Chief Alana Ennis officially resigned Tuesday to become the chief of police in Burlington, Vt., said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask.
(10/05/98 4:00am)
Alana Ennis, the University's first female police chief, has been named Burlington, Vt.'s top cop, Burlington police officials announced Friday.
(10/02/98 4:00am)
Administrators have touted the upperclass residential working group's report as a jumping-off point for community-wide conversation about the future of on-campus life at the University. This week, as details of the report wound their way around campus, students took that charge to heart, leaping into a discussion of their individual conceptions for the Duke residential experience.
(09/25/98 4:00am)
DoubleTake, the award-winning documentary magazine renowned for its unusual blend of high-quality fiction, nonfiction, poetry and photography, will lose its financial backing from the University-affiliated Center for Documentary Studies by the end of this year.
(09/24/98 4:00am)
Associate Dean of Student Development Paul Bumbalough, who has supervised the University's judicial system since 1993, will resign from his position Sept. 30 after more than 14 years in the Division of Student Affairs.
(09/22/98 4:00am)
Adopting a strategy employed last year by the Trinity Park Association, the Durham Police Department will write letters to the parents of some of the 61 underage drinkers caught Sept. 11 at a Markham Avenue house rented by members of the Sigma Nu fraternity.
(09/17/98 4:00am)
The University lost a student remembered for her gentle demeanor and social work this summer when Trinity senior Kelly Anne Baxley died May 15. She was 25.
(09/17/98 4:00am)
Changes in the University's alcohol policy have been pushing drinking off campus. Now off campus is pushing back.
(09/15/98 4:00am)
What's black and white and almost never read? It's the University's Information and Regulations book. Or at least that's what several administrators think, and recently they have begun to translate those thoughts into action.
(09/15/98 4:00am)
The year 2000 may not be here yet, but Curriculum 2000 is well on its way.
(09/10/98 4:00am)
President Nan Keohane announced Wednesday afternoon the 11-member committee responsible for selecting the University's next provost.
(09/08/98 4:00am)
Rival elite universities launched an unprecedented attack on Duke faculty members last year, sending administrators scrambling to fend off outside offers and sparking speculation about the causes of this startling increase.
