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Citing a growing importance and stature of Student Affairs at the University, officials are in the process of recruiting a new development officer specifically dedicated to the division.
When the Arts and Sciences Council votes later this semester on whether to continue providing course evaluation information online, the proposal it considers will be weaker than last year's plan, but still may have a difficult time gaining faculty approval.
After the Arts and Sciences Council Budget Task Force recommended several options last week for resolving the Arts and Sciences budget deficit, professors are reacting primarily with frustration.
As Title IX celebrates its 30th anniversary and its success in women's athletics, higher education officials nationwide are considering whether to and how best to apply the equity law to the sciences.
Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta announced this week that he had found the right man to lead a reenergized residential life system, the last vacancy to be filled under the newly-restructured Division of Student Affairs.
This is the first story in a five-part series examining attrition among graduate students.
Although the University is still only considering a plan to add 200 students to the undergraduate student body, officials believe most of the additional students would likely enter as engineers.
Reported robberies and drug violations increased last year, while liquor law violations were down, according to 2001 campus crime statistics released this week.
If a new task force has its way, undergraduates may find it more difficult to schedule four-day weekends into their schedules.
Several prominent Blue Devils--including head basketball coaches Mike Krzyzewski and Gail Goestenkors--will host a "Blue Devils for Dole" reception tonight for U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole, Woman's College '58.
Correction (9/25/2002): A page one story in the Sept. 24 edition of The Chronicle incorrectly stated the annual budget for Arts and Sciences. The budget is over $200 million, not $200,000. The same story also incorrectly stated that: faculty searches were cut last year--the cut, from 42 to 32 searches, is taking place this year; that faculty salaries did not increase last year--they increased 2.5 percent; and that most of the Annual Fund's $9.4 million revenue went to Arts and Sciences, while all of it did.
The Pratt School of Engineering Class of 2006 has matriculated, but the curriculum changes scheduled to accompany them are only partially in effect.
To offset the costs of admitting more doctoral students, the Fuqua School of Business plans to let its incoming MBA class grow by 20 percent.
Duke jumped four spots in this year's U.S. News & World Report ranking to share fourth place with four other universities. Princeton University pulled the top spot, followed by Harvard and Yale universities tied at second--all maintaining their spots.
Despite a University request that professors try to incorporate the Sept. 11 anniversary into their Wednesday classes, the extent to which the commemoration became a topic of class discussion varied greatly.
Four political science stars came together Wednesday to discuss how the United States' role in the world has changed since the attacks a year earlier.
One year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks shook the nation and brought life at Duke to a sudden halt, the University will commemorate the anniversary with a day filled with academic and spiritual events, all with a somber and respectful tone.
Miscommunication was at the root of Saturday's breakup of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity's party, an events planning administrator said.
Football fans suffered a second loss over the weekend, as the University prohibited the long-standing tradition of drinking from kegs at tailgates in the Blue Zone before football games.
The Fuqua School of Business ranks third among the nation's top 25 business schools in percentage of black students, according to a recent survey in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
