The Board of Trustees has just concluded its regularly scheduled meeting. The Board offered no comment on the leveled against Steel by a left-to-right coalition of good-government groups in yesterday’s Washington Post. But the Board did make two moves—one by action, one by inaction—that made perfectly clear where the Board stands on Duke’s future. Inaction In its final meeting before the deadline to apply to Duke’s Class of 2011, the Board remained silent about Mike Nifong’s “separate-but-equal” system of justice for Duke students. Parents considering spending the more than $40,000 annual tuition to send their son or daughter to Duke should, therefore, have no doubt that the institution will remain silent in face of a prosecutor who for Duke students than those used for all other Durham residents.

Prospective parents also now can be assured that the BOT has no complaints with the Durham PD’s of meting out greater punishment to Duke students than to all other Durham residents for the same misdemeanor-level offenses. Many might argue that with this silence, Duke’s trustees have failed in their fiduciary duty to the institution. But Steel, obviously, has a different vision of his proper role. Thunderdome the final exam torrent download. Action The Board the African and African American Studies (AAAS) Program from a program to an academic department.

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The student-to-professor ratio in the new department is stunningly low: with 15 core faculty members, the program has a mere 33 majors. With the decision, AAAS can set up a Ph.D. Program, to start formally training the next generation of graduate students. The Board ratified a recommendation from the university’s Academic Programs Committee, which passed a resolution stating The AAAS faculty, including those with joint and secondary appointments, have demonstrated an admirable commitment to advanced research, teaching and outreach activities that deserves recognition.” [emphasis added] What type of “outreach activities” have AAAS faculty, of whom signed the Group of 88’s statement, conducted in the last eight months? Bill anderson said. I believe that Steel, Brodhead, and the Duke BOT have spoken loudly, clearly, and unequivically, and the message is: We don't care that three Duke students are falsely accused of rape and face wrongful convictions. They can go to prison, and they can go to hell, for all we care.

The decision to make the AAAS into a full-blown department with potential of doctoral programs, as I see it, was directly related to the false crisis and the 'campus initiatives.' The next step will be for Duke to be nothing but an re-education camp.