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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Search
V.P. Dickson
Stanford return
plans
committee
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Vice President for Institutional
ready
to go
high-level administrator when
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ford
provost is in the
engines
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announced the
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Thursday
search
committee
of
president
ly
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sity
this
summer
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program
for “I’m
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but
chair and in the wake of
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department’s strategy
for
growth
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port. This spring, a re-
found completed last October,
could program
economics
taken
steps
for the
to
undergraduate
and programs
be
streamline
department’s
currently
and
plans
for
as
It
also
student time,
more
turn to
its
faculty
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bilizing
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working with [President] senior administrators
for
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Campus n
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funds
from
the
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of
on
page 7
economics review of
over
helped
the next
for the
depart-
Chafe,
sup-
faculty
dean of the
more
than
any
other
year, at
this
a
de-
time
depart-
plans. in
leadership has been effective inside
said. “He’s
and
got
outside
some
mo-
the
good plans
deto
Peter
Lange
said
he inherited as
an
provost
“eco-
in 1999
an
initiative, he hopes
to continue
support for
the department. “That department has been ber of
a
priority
said. “Economics is
years,” Lange
for
a
one
num-
of the
in See ECONOMICS
Council voted last week to take back Student
history
replicated.”
place.”
of such
re-
culture here—the
she
African-
and that while he dismantled the structural concept
graduate
currently unwieldy
them,”
undergradu-
program
smoothly
Sciences
constituencies
Provost
eco-
with
rich, rich
than
ahead
crunches have frustrated other
partment,” Chafe
distribution and boosting research activity.
inside
she
will and
that he started in 2001.
nomics initiative” when he arrived
officially becomes the
budget
mental hiring
econom-
faculty and grad-
improving
program’s mentoring, especially
in
studies.
of introductory
Nechyba—who
now
en-
William
in Arts and
“[Nechyba’s]
articulated by
undergraduate
thereby opening
chair June I—wil 1—will
a
so
department—far
the
when
re-
manage
improvement
faculty hiring,
director of
but
stronger,
program.
consolidated sections
nomics classes,
building
both
of arts and sciences, authorized four faculty searches for
of incoming chair Thomas Nechyba, professor
uate
earlier
year
reforms
undergraduate
have gone
news
The external review,
Having
better
years.”
partment
ics and
one
EcoTeach
lay the groundwork for what we’ll do
three
structuring of its graduate program. See page 7
graduate
she
Duke
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ment that it has found welcome administrative
Central to the economics
the
EcoTeach
the
advising and mentoring
“What
The plans
dorsed
said of
the Southeast can’t be
position.
schedule,” Nechyba said of the hub ate
and faculty under the lead-
favorable external review last fall.
sources
can
Dickson will leave Duke for Stanford Univer-
Sally
addressing
leaving
planned,
undergraduate department is turning toward strengthen-
a new
after three years in her current
plan
sets
major restructured,
graduate
praised
they
recruitment,
students of color and facul-
[Keoharie],
American CHRONICLE
but
page 8
its
the
for
said. “I will miss the
balance of
qualifications,
The
that
to en-
and also many of the staff here—l have
chose people
we
By
ership of
at how
pipeline
graduate
Nan
its
begin
Nechyba
its
returns
in recruitment.
“I will miss
said
VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL EQUITY
ing
in
especially
she
of her duties will be to
looking
a
community
11 years
Board,
to
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With
one
Dickson
committee’s
hopes
trying
to make
economics
When
really enjoyed working
were
just
equality,
race.
memories
her
soon
people,
and
family
three years.
vice chair of the
Steel,
ap-
opportu-
ty of color,” she noted.
in the office.
he is
is
create
of
named in
down from
of
diversity
doing
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Trinity
in June 2004 after
position
was
an
“What Stanford is very interested in
the Board of Trustees
would
she
“I
establishing workforce
classroom
Stanford,
May.
March when President Nan Keohane announced to
said.
Dickson said she is excited to contin-
one
vice-chair was
Dickson
fessional career.”
sure
Steel,
at
was
been involved with for most of my pro-
tee’s chair, Robert
and
I
know,
12 years. I have my fami-
to be reunited with my
terms in
as-
one
and
meeting
vice
and
two
represen-
tative
Stan-
as
also to continue the work that I have
six
students,
people
many
there,”
nity is
group
to
summer
proached by Stanford with
the University. The
this
faculty development
Stanford for
the
the ninth
for
depart the
to
returns
sociate dean of humanities and sciences.
running.
are
Officials members
ignition and the
she
University
The Chronicle
The key
Equi-
ty Sally Dickson will become the latest
$35,000
in
Organization
Duke and the
announced Robertson
on
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of North Carolina at
recepients
scholarships.
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the
Chapel
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Hill
annual
The North Carolina House of the
annual
increase in
state
budget
spending
Representatives approved
Wednesday;
it
includes
of $617 million. See page 5
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