Browsing by Subject "Duke University"

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A Story in Stone
(2007-01-23T21:27:15Z) Duke University. Office of News and Communications
Video outlining historic and present use of Duke stone from the Hillsborough quarry in campus construction.
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An Analysis of Sustainability Strategic Planning at Duke University
(2012-04-27) Jones, Kelly; Hildenbrand, Jim; Willie, Nicholas
This study was conducted in order to inform the sustainability planning process at Duke University and similar institutions of higher education. Through interviews of Duke University Campus Sustainability Committee members and a cost-benefit analysis of Duke’s Climate Action Plan, we evaluated the effectiveness of Duke’s sustainability planning and implementation process. Additionally, we investigated the widely varying sustainability approaches and metrics used by fifteen peer institutions to evaluate their relative merits. In depth interviews were also conducted with Brown University and Yale University staff members for comparison to Duke. Our work resulted in (1) a generic roadmap for universities seeking to develop their own sustainability plan and (2) a list of recommendations to improve upon Duke’s already successful model.
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Annual report of Duke University
(2007-01-22T21:45:37Z) Duke University
Includes reports from the President, financial reports, and reports from the major schools and divisions of the university.
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Building on Excellence: The University Plan
(2006-12-14T19:45:37Z) Duke University. Office of the Provost
Strategic plan for Duke University covering the period of 2001 to 2005. Includes the overall campus as well as plans for the professional schools and campus initiatives, such as interdiscplinary studies, instructional technology, and research.
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Bulletin of Duke University. Divinity School
(2006-06) Duke University. Office of the Registrar
Academic and administrative information resource for Duke Divinity students.
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Bulletin of Duke University. Fuqua School of Business
(2007-01-22T21:16:52Z) Duke University. Office of the Registrar
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Bulletin of Duke University. Graduate School
(2006-11-03) Duke University. Office of the Registrar
The Graduate School Bulletin provides administrative information for post-graduate students at Duke University.
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Bulletin of Duke University. Nicholas School of the Environment Marine Laboratory
(2007-01-22T21:21:40Z) Duke University. Office of the Registrar
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Bulletin of Duke University. School of Law
(2007-01-22T21:10:28Z) Duke University. Office of the Registrar
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Bulletin of Duke University. School of Medicine
(2007-01-22T21:05:45Z) Duke University. Office of the Registrar
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Bulletin of Duke University. School of Nursing
(2007-01-22T21:00:46Z) Duke University. Office of the Registrar
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Bulletin of Duke University. Summer Session
(2007-01-22T21:29:51Z) Duke University. Office of the Registrar
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Case Studies for the Research Triangle Foundation’s Global Convergence Center
(2014-04-18) Khaled, Tyseer
As the Research Triangle Foundation proceeds to implement its 2011 Master Plan for the Research Triangle Park (RTP), the Global Convergence Center will likely play an important role as a centerpiece and symbol for the park. The Foundation envisions the Convergence Center as a campus for cutting-edge, collaborative research that serves as a common ground where Triangle university researchers can work together. In addition to building RTP’s reputation as a premier research hub in both the United States and the world, the Convergence Center could contribute to local economic development by leading to entrepreneurial spin-offs from the research conducted at the center. This paper seeks to help answer what the Research Triangle Foundation can do to develop a center that is cutting-edge, collaborative, and draws on local talent. We explore three case studies: the MIT Media Lab, multi-university teams, and RTI International. The MIT Media Lab serves as an example of cutting-edge research. The study of multi-university teams provides insight on effective collaboration, and RTI International serves as an example of how an organization attracted local talent. These case studies point to some best practices that may guide the Foundation’s design of the Convergence Center. Best Practices: 1. Select a leader for the Convergence Center that has deep relationships with the Triangle universities and has worked across academia and industry. 2. Develop a unifying vision for research that the Convergence Center will host. 3. Ensure researchers and administrators have ample opportunity to develop relationships with industry. 4. Reduce faculty concern about working with industry by creating processes that match faculty interests with market or industry needs. 5. Reduce and eliminate the organizational boundaries that researchers must work across. 6. Recruit diverse teams from uncommonly grouped areas of research. 7. Recruit prestigious researchers and leverage their reputation to attract more talent and research dollars. 8. Ensure that the Global Convergence Center offers a unique research opportunity that cannot be found at local universities.
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Community Bonding: Rebuilding Duke University and Durham, North Carolina to Promote Sexual Autonomy
(2019-12-19) Sara, Stevens
My central question asks how universities can engage with local communities to work towards increased sexual safety on campuses. Specifically, I first argue that universities can improve sexual safety on campuses by incorporating ideas about consent and sexuality from alternative sexual communities into safety initiatives. I then argue that universities can further improve sexual safety on campuses through engagement with off-campus business that are central to student life. Student activists and university administrators must reach outside the university to engage with local communities and unite against all forms of sexual misconduct. I cast a wide net in Chapter One to look at the various notions of safety, consent, and gender in contemporary BDSM (bondage, discipline (or domination), sadism (or submission), and masochism) communities in hopes of finding new ways to restructure modes of though around sexual assault and harassment prevention. I find that the normative response from Duke University (and their peer institutions) against sexual assault and harassment prevention to add more policy and review boards is not working. Chapter two brings readers back to the relationship between Duke and Durham to evaluate how restructuring sex education and community engagement can form a better response against sexual misconduct and improve sexual justice at its core. My research led me to realize how important sexual autonomy is to community health. As it currently stands in the United States, policies, laws and ideologies around appropriate sexual conduct damage sexual autonomy. Our autonomy forms how we interact with our outside community, not just intimately but socially. Therefore, if Duke University wants to strengthen sexual justice on campus, they need to first invest in sex education to re-build students’ sexual autonomy.
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Dangerous Jokes and the Power of Tolerance
(2011-04-27) Kuscu, Bengisu
A fieldwork study of Duke University aims to show how identity functions in an environment whose ideal is perfect tolerance and the experience of students who want to practice their religion as a college student, touching on issues of gender and sexuality as well. College students and their use of humor are analyzed to reflect on how tolerance can create tension between groups, and how people deal with these tensions through their jokes. American colleges utilize a policy of tolerance in order to decrease tension between different groups which are reflected in the jokes that students make, whereas in Turkey similar tensions are the subject of current public and legal discussions. A discussion of the definition and attitudes about tolerance in Turkey and the United States reflects on how the different societies have come to accept different definitions of tolerance. The citizens of modern nation states are expected to be liberal subjects who make rational decisions, free from the effects of things like religion. However, this expectation is not always true. Tolerance is one of the ways used to deal with this contradiction, but instead of promoting understanding, it can perpetuate a cycle where communities of people grow more distant from each other. Tolerance is a policy existent around the world, and religious tolerance has become an important part of modern, national identity, as it is expected that citizens will have rational, free choice, not acted on by religion. Colleges aim to create a certain type of citizen that will be a model of what a modern, liberal subject should be.
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Directions for Progress
(1980-09-26) Pye, A. Kenneth
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Do Clothes Make the Woman? : The Duke Dress Code
(2007-05-04) Burchell, Jessica
At Duke University, a dress code did exist at one point and by looking directly at the dress code it is possible to analyze the overall goals and control the university has exerted, the ways the dress code has changed, and the implications of those changes. It is interesting to look at the reasons why the rules existed and what they accomplished because information about perceptions and power struggles as well as age and gender relations can be discovered. It is most useful to look at different time periods in Duke’s history and, in doing so, use the specific details to make general observations and compare them. The first time period that will be looked at is the years of The Woman’s College, 1930-1963. The second time period, from 1963-1970, will be analyzed next. Breaking the time periods at 1963 is of particular importance because this is the last year that the Social Standards Committee produced their pamphlet documenting the dress code. This was a student-run branch of the Woman’s Student Government Association that was specifically interested in promoting “good taste and gracious living on campus.” One of their specific tasks was to produce a pamphlet for each incoming class which was initially called “It’s not in the Handbook” and later changed to “Design for a Duchess”. In these guides, there are pages devoted to the wardrobe of a “duchess” describing the appropriate dress for different kinds of activities. Later on, after the Social Standards board no longer exists, there is an obvious break from a traditional dress code. The students’ behavior starts to change which is apparent when analyzing the lack of documented dress policy, the changing pictorial documentation, and mostly the documentation, through the Woman’s College records, of rebellion from the students.
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DukeParents Newsletter
(2006-11-03T18:55:20Z) Duke University. Office of Student Affairs
The inaugural edition of the dukeParents newsletter was published in the spring of 2003 as a means for communicating with the parents and families of Duke students. The newsletter is published twice a year - once in the fall and once in the spring.
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Expulsion: Reasons, Rates, and Ramifications
(2007-05-04) Garrison, Jill
Women have always been held to different social standards than men. Although these variations in standards are not as prevalent today as they once were, they still are a part of our everyday lives. For instance, while it is a widely known that sorority life is filled with drinking and partying, during rush, current members of sororities may not talk about the partying and drinking that their sorority does. During rush, sorority members have to “pretend” that they do not drink, while during fraternity rush, drinking is a part of the process. Ever since the admission of women into Trinity College in 1896, women at Duke have always been held to different standards than men. In this paper, I will examine the changing rules and regulations over two different time periods (the 1930-1940’s and the 1960-1970’s) and the amount of opposition these rules and regulations incurred. In doing this, I will explore the suspension, expulsion and the judicial procedures that followed. I also will provide a thorough examination of the differences between the rules of the men in Trinity and the female students of The Woman’s College.
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Free(dom)inated: A Feminist Examination of Hookup Culture’s Sexual Empowerment and Sexual Policing of Duke University Undergraduate Women
(2017-05-05) Farless, Hayley
How do Duke University undergraduate women experience the seemingly empowering norms of hookup culture? While debate rages among feminists, scholars, journalists, and others as to whether or not hookup culture is beneficial for young women, this research offers a fresh perspective via an ethnographic examination of undergraduate women at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and how they experience hookup culture in a larger structure of male-privileged society. Based on interviews, qualitative surveys, and participant-observation on campus and at parties and bars, I explore the gendered elements of hookup culture and how they simultaneously sexually empower and oppress women at Duke’s campus. I argue that hookup culture polices women and their sexuality; that is, while hookup culture normalizes female participation in sex, it forces women into a prude–slut dichotomy. I then focus on the carnivalesque nightclub and the fraternity party as the primary sites where hookups are initiated, asserting that these spaces encourage female sexuality but also pressure women to objectify and commodify themselves. Finally, I consider the emerging, liminal space of the smartphone application Tinder and its gendered relation with hookup culture, in which women gain more control of the hookup space but are subjected to dehumanization and self-objectification. I argue that although the cultural norms of collegiate hookup culture seem to empower women’s expressions of sexuality by normalizing sexual activity for women, these same cultural norms actually contribute to Duke women’s sexual oppression by policing, objectifying, and commodifying female sexuality to serve male pleasure. This conclusion leads to a broader claim for future research: any degree of female sexual liberation that occurs within patriarchal society and male-privileging social structures only serves to placate women and perpetuate male sexual power.

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