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Steve Nowicki will welcome a second placard to his desk The deanofundergraduate education can add the title of vice provost for undergraduate education to his resume, Provost Peter Lange announced Wednesday. “Nowicki’s responsibility spans several schools,” Lange said. “That’s the biggest reason [for the added title].” Lange said the titular expansion had been discussed for some time, as Nowicki’s purview encompasses both undergraduate schools and their programming, but administrators wanted to wait until Fall to make it official. Nowicki joined the University as an assistant professor in 1989,and theAnne T.'and Robert M. Bass fellow has taught in the departments of biology, psychology and neurobiology since
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The Class of 2012 matriculated this year an updated version of the Duke Community Standard. Every year, the Office of Judicial Affairs publishes a revised guide based on feedback from the previous year. The current version boasts changes ranging from a more stringent alcohol policy to an altered disciplinary process. Students were alerted to the release of the update via e-mail Wednesday. Stephen Bryan, director of Judicial Affairs and associate dean of students, said the additions to the code were meant to clarify previously vague policies. The DCS now explicitly states that groups are in violation of the alcohol policy if they provide alcohol to students under the age of 21, and modified the entry on jurisdiction to note that the University reserves the right to respond to any allegation of misconduct, on- or off-campus. “This year’s edition has no major changes,” Bryan said. “We clarified some things to
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Junior Raisa Ledesma arrived in Dublin, Ireland foreseeing community engagement beyond just office work. Although Ledesma said she often spoke with the refugees her DukeEngage program served—one of her favorite parts of the job—she added that her summer in Dublin did not ultimately fulfill her expectations for community service “What I was expecting out of my placement was working with the community itself,” she said. “I ended up in a sort of umbrella organization that worked as a support for ethnic communities. The most inter„
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action I got was with people who came in and were filling out applications or using computers.” Student response to DukeEngage’s community impact varied by site—and perhaps by need. The foremost goal of DukeEngage is to identify challenges in a target community and address them accordingly, said Eric Mlyn, director of Duke Engage and director of the Duke Center for Civic Engagement. “We are responding to a need that the community has expressed. It’s No. 1 and instrumental,” he said. And some participants said they felt the programs did make a difference in their host areas. In Hyderabad, India, junior Mathavi Jothimurugesan taught English to fourth and fifth graders, and she praised the program for instilling useful
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Students volunteering in Hyderabad, India this summer worked with local children.Some Duke Engage participants, however, worked in an officeinstead of with the community.
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