Chapter 4 - Academic Goals and Strategies to Build Distinction
The Campus Culture Initiative, launched in April 2006, will help us develop a clear vision of the values and behaviors that should guide Duke students in their relations with others. We will examine educational practices inside and outside the classroom; evaluate the ways students develop personal responsibility, social responsibility, and civic engagement; and assess how students relate to each other and other members of the campus and community across bounds of race, gender and other social divisions. In the course of our work, we will support and align curricular and co-curricular opportunities, including programs in residential and social life, to help students gain greater perspective on their actions and to foster greater empathy for others.
As we seek to improve campus culture, we will be aided by efforts to bring a greater wholeness to our administration of undergraduate education. Initial steps include more integrated oversight by the Provost, who has established an Undergraduate Leadership Group that brings together, on a regular basis, leaders in academics, athletics, and student life, and a restructuring of the Board of Trustees committees to allow for more comprehensive consideration of issues related to a Duke undergraduate's experience.
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