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The Duke Faculty Quality, Challenges and Opportunities

The Duke Faculty Quality, Challenges and Opportunities. A Report from the Provost to The Alumni Board February 8, 2013. Some History. 1999 – “Reputation gap” Quality spottier and more fragile than our reputation  focus on faculty development in Building on Excellence

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The Duke Faculty Quality, Challenges and Opportunities

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  1. The Duke FacultyQuality, Challenges and Opportunities A Report from the Provost to The Alumni Board February 8, 2013

  2. Some History • 1999 – “Reputation gap” • Quality spottier and more fragile than our reputation  focus on faculty development in Building on Excellence • 2006 – “Bottom of the top” • Can we hire the faculty we really want and need for what Duke wants to be?  Making a Difference 2012 - Where are we now?

  3. Some metrics of faculty quality today • Academic Analytics • Teaching programs and innovations • Hiring built on Duke distinctiveness and distinction • Changing research profile

  4. Duke’s Standing

  5. Broad Field Map (Size of Circle Corresponds to # Faculty)

  6. Breadth of Quality across Ranks

  7. Campus Research Expenditures – FY99-FY12 dollars in thousands 203 and 3x3 total sponsored expenditures by fiscal year, with breakout of facilities and administrative (F&A) component of total

  8. Teaching • Innovative teaching-intensive programs • Focus • Duke Immerse • Senior Theses and Independent Research • Duke Ideas • Cross-Continent Program – Fuqua • Law and Entrepreneurship • Duke in DC • New degree programs in Divinity • First MFA

  9. Superb Hiring through Strategic Distinctiveness • Interdisciplinarity • Knowledge in the Service of Society • Close Collaboration with Medical School

  10. Guillermo SapiroProfessor of Computer ScienceCollege of Arts and SciencesCame to Duke in 2012 Richard Newell, Gendell Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics, Director, Duke University Energy Initiative Nicholas School of the Environment, Came to Duke in 2007

  11. Laurent DuboisMarcelo Lotti Professor in Romance Studies and History Director, Center for French and Francophone StudiesDirector of Scholars & Publics InitiativeCo-director of Haiti Humanities LaboratoryCollege of Arts and Sciences Came to Duke in 2007 Ingrid Daubechies James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Came to Duke in 2010

  12. Terri Moffitt, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences College of Arts and SciencesCame to Duke in 2007 Guy Charles, Charles S. Rhyne Professor of Law, Director of the Duke Center on Law, Race and Politics Law School Came to Duke in 2009

  13. How has the Faculty Changed • Size • Age • Are they staying? • Balance of tenure/tenure track to non-tenure track

  14. Regular Rank Faculty Growth

  15. Faculty Age Tenured and Tenure Track

  16. Faculty Retention

  17. Non-Tenure Track Faculty

  18. Faculty Diversity

  19. Challenges and Opportunities (1)Sustaining a Great Faculty • Declining turnover and maintaining a trajectory of faculty improvement • Slow or no faculty growth in some schools • An aging faculty • Strong retention rates

  20. TeachingInnovation, Flexibility, Quality • New modes of teaching • The sometimes changing “lecture” • The expansion of team and small group learning: the return of the “tutorial”? • Digital and Online learning elements • An increasingly diversified faculty • Research faculty • Professors of the Practice • “Teaching Specialists” • New ways of accounting for teaching effort • Continued efforts to assess effectiveness of innovations

  21. Research • The threat of declining funding opportunities: • The threat is real, but what how big is the danger? • Focusing our research efforts on the most vibrant opportunities • The genius of our faculty • Interdisciplinary and team research • On the base of disciplinary excellence • Knowledge in the service of society • Seeking new sources of support • Enabling stronger links to the private sector while sustaining academic independence • Global opportunities

  22. Building a Great 21st Century Faculty • Sustaining our momentum • Underlining our distinctiveness • Multi-disciplinary collaborations and teams • Engagement with the globe’s greatest challenges • A teaching program built around our special strengths • Further building and demonstrating our distinction

  23. What’s Needed? • Strong financial and faculty management • Resources • Duke/Forward • Rebuild SIP alongside strong school financials • Innovative financially rewarding new programs • Innovative and dynamic leadership • Deans • In the Faculty

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