December, 2012/January, 2013 Working@Duke

WORKING@DUKE n NEWS YOU CAN USE n Volume 7, Issue 6 n December 2012/January 2013

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Annual Fitness Challenge Women’s Basketball Tickets Give Back Over The Holidays

Who Are We? Special Report: A look at where we live, our jobs, our age, how long we’ve worked at Duke and more

Editor’s Note LEANORA MINAI

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The City of Duke

Cover: Who Are We?

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ften in Working@Duke, we tell stories of individual staff and faculty. But it’s been a goal of the Working@Duke editorial team to take a closer look at our workforce demographics.

For the feature article in this issue, the editorial team dug through data from Duke Human Resources to see what story the data tells. In these pages, we present the trends we discovered through story and illustration. With 34,863 people working at Duke University and Duke University Health System, we’re the size of a small city with a diverse workforce.

Our report “Who Are We?” begins on page 4 and covers age, jobs, gender, years of service, where we live and race and ethnicity.

Please take some time to learn about Duke’s people and interesting workforce trends – everything from how we’re addressing workforce aging to an explanation about why women outnumber men here.

“When people think of Duke, they often picture professors, researchers and health care providers because they represent what we are known for: education, research and patient care,” Denise Motley Johnston, director of recruitment at Duke, told Working@Duke. “However, we also have a huge supporting cast of staff, including groundskeepers and clerical support.”

As of this summer, the employee population at Duke University and Duke University Health System stood at 34,863, making the number of employees bigger than some North Carolina cities. Find out where we live and work, how old we are and more.

$3.25 Billion Campaign Generating excitement about the Duke Forward campaign priorities comes, in large part, from sharing stories from faculty and staff about how Duke has made a difference.

Get Moving Challenge Sign up for the Get Moving Challenge, the employee fitness competition that runs Jan. 14 to March 24. Last year, employees took 608 million steps, exercised 2.8 million minutes and lost 3,879 pounds.

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Please take a few minutes to complete the survey. Readers who complete the survey get a chance at winning a $25 gift card from Duke University Stores.

Your feedback is valuable as we continue to enhance the publication and offer news you can use in your work and lives. I’ll report on our readership results in the February/March editor’s note.

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Briefly Duke holiday social is Dec. 6 Ring in the holidays with colleagues during the Duke holiday social from 2 to 4 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Von Canon rooms in the Bryan Center on West Campus.

The event is open to Duke University and Duke University Health System faculty and staff. Drop in and enjoy free refreshments, holiday music and the opportunity to socialize with colleagues.

“The holiday social is one way Duke has of showing appreciation for employees,” said Denise Evans, executive director of Duke Staff and Labor Relations and Duke’s Staff and Family Programs. “It is a way to thank staff for their positive contributions not only during the holidays, but throughout the year.”

Be prepared for severe weather Faculty and staff members are encouraged to review Duke’s severe weather policy, as well as their service categories, to ensure they understand their roles and responsibilities if Duke declares severe weather or an emergency condition. Job categories include essential, reserve and delayed.

Essential service employees are required to report to or remain at work; reserve service will be assigned at the time of severe weather; and delayed service employees will not report to or remain at work in severe weather.

A link to the emergency conditions policy and snow/ice priority clearing map is at emergency.duke.edu.

In the event of severe weather, employees should monitor the website or call (919) 684-INFO for updates.

Find Duke faculty experts If you work on grant proposals or other university reports, you may be familiar with this request: Find me all of the Duke faculty members who are experts in cancer, water quality or some other field of research.

Answering such questions at a decentralized university can be a challenge. That’s why the provost’s office has been developing a campus-wide database to provide quick summaries of faculty scholarship in diverse fields. It plans to begin rolling out Scholars@Duke in 2013, initially with several departments and schools and then expanding to include others.

In the meantime, Duke faculty and staff can find answers at another new data source.

In early 2012, Duke contributed profiles on thousands of its faculty members to a database that seeks to boost North Carolina’s economy by connecting researchers with new collaborators. REACH NC [reachnc.org] highlights a faculty expert’s research fields, publications, patents and other information.

“It’s a very useful tool,” says Tom Healy, Duke’s director of corporate relations. “When I get an inquiry from a company about whether Duke is doing research on some topic, I go to REACH NC and check which of our faculty members might be good matches.”

Want to learn more? Contact Julia Trimmer [julia.trimmer@duke.edu] in the provost’s office. She heads Duke’s partnership with REACH NC and its development of the new Scholars@Duke database system.

Celebrating 50 years of integration Duke’s annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life will begin Jan. 20 with the keynote address by the Rev. William C. Turner Jr., a Duke Divinity School professor.

As part of celebrating King’s life, Duke will also begin commemorating its 50th anniversary of integration, highlighting the five AfricanAmerican undergraduate students who broke the color barrier in 1963 by becoming the first black undergraduates at Duke.

Turner was in the fourth class of black undergraduates admitted to Duke. In 1967, he became the second black football player at Duke.

On Jan. 25, Duke will formally launch the nine-month commemoration called “Celebrating Gene Kendall, left, Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke and the Past, Charting the Future: Nathaniel “Nat” White, Jr. are the three surviving Commemorating 50 Years of Black members of the first five undergraduate students to Students at Duke University.” The integrate Duke in 1963. opening reception will include recognition of the three surviving black members of Duke’s first integrated class, Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, Gene Kendall and Nathaniel “Nat” White, Jr. The full schedule of MLK events is at mlk.duke.edu. Details of the 50th anniversary celebrations are at spotlight.duke.edu/50years.

The commemoration to highlight the 50th anniversary of integration will also be observed during the annual Employee Kickoff Celebration, which takes place at the first home football game in 2013.

Get a free flu shot North Carolina typically sees its peak of flu cases in January, so now’s a good time to get a flu shot.

Free seasonal flu vaccinations are available from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday (with the exception of noon to 2 p.m. Wednesdays) in the Employee Occupational Health and Wellness (EOHW) office on the basement level of the Red Zone of Duke Clinic.

No appointment is necessary. Bring a valid DukeCard.

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Who Are I We? t’s a simple question with a complicated answer: Who are we?

At Duke, we are doctors and professors, housekeepers and police officers, staff assistants and researchers. We are young and old. We live in North Carolina, out of state and even out of the country. We are many things, but above all else, we are Duke.

As of July 2012, the employee population at Duke University and Duke University Health System stood at 34,863, making the number of employees bigger than some North Carolina cities.

According to figures from the 2010 Census, Duke’s employee population would rank as the 24th largest city in the state.

With numbers like that, Duke naturally has a diverse and vast workforce. That’s why we’ve set out to pull all these puzzle pieces together and look at the complete picture to explore where we live, how long we’ve worked at Duke, what kind of jobs we hold and more. We found a melting pot of talents, backgrounds and experiences that make up Duke and help showcase what a unique group of faculty and staff comprise our workforce.

So, who are we? Let’s find out…

“When people think of Duke, they often picture professors, researchers and health care providers because they represent what we are known for: education, research and patient care,” Motley Denise Motley Johnston, director of recruitment at Duke, Johnston said. “However, we also have a huge supporting cast describes the place she works as “the city of Duke.” of staff, including groundskeepers and clerical support.”

With 34,863 employees, Duke is larger than many cities in To help organize jobs, Duke Human Resources groups them North Carolina, including Carrboro, Asheboro and Wake Forest. into families of related jobs such as “office support,” “faculty” And like most communities, Duke boasts a variety of jobs, from and “service.”

Faculty is the largest group with 5,756 employees, police officer to zoologist. according to Duke Human Resources.

Nursing is a close second with 5,563 employees.

“The fact that we have close to the same number of employees in the nursing families as we do faculty surprises most people, but it takes many nurses to keep our hospitals, clinics and practices running,” Motley Johnston said.

Smaller job families such as “skilled crafts” include positions like steam plant operators to keep buildings cool in summer and warm in winter and cryogenic refrigeration specialists to care for specialized machines for freezing research samples.

“All jobs are essential to the effective and efficient operation of Duke,” Motley Johnston said. “The Duke brand is very strong, and many people relocate to this area hoping to become part of the Duke groups jobs into “families” of related positions. Faculty and nursing families have the largest number of Duke family.”

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employees, followed by office support, administrative/managerial and clinical technicians.

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Asian Population Growing

Asians comprise 8 percent of Duke’s employee population, which is higher than Like other states across the country, North Carolina’s Hispanic Asian residents in Durham County population has more than doubled in size between 2000 and 2010.

(4.7 percent) and North Carolina At Duke, another group has seen its number grow fast.

(2.3 percent). In 2003, Asians comprised Faculty and staff identifying as Asian represent the third largest 5.5 percent of Duke’s faculty and staff. employee demographic on campus behind those recognizing Li-Chen Chin, director of themselves as white or black, according to Duke Human Resources. intercultural programs for Duke Student Hispanic comes in fourth.

Affairs, said Asian employee population growth mirrors undergraduate Li-Chen Chin students, 21 percent of whom identify as Asian-American. Asians are typically found among faculty in higher education, but Duke’s growth of Asian employees includes an effort to increase Asian staff members, Chin said.

“Diversity is one of the core values of Duke,” she said. “Growing the number of minority employees only helps to offer the best faculty and staff for a diverse group of students we serve.”

Ben Reese, vice president and chief diversity officer with the Office for Institutional Equity, said having a diverse workforce is important to offering a broad range of perspective, viewpoints and ideas.

“As important as the diversity of our workforce is to success in today’s work, it’s equally important for us to create the type of environment where all individuals have the opportunity for professional growth, development and full participation in the workplace,” Reese said. “Inclusion speaks to this Faculty and staff identifying as Asian represent the third largest employee demographic on campus. effort to fully utilize talents of everyone in our workforce.”

Women Comprise Most of Duke’s Workforce When Duke’s Administrative Women’s Network sent an invitation for a “women only” financial workshop over the summer, the free seminar hit the 75-person registration limit in less than 48 hours.

That high demand reflects the large proportion of women at Duke: 65 percent of Duke University and Duke University Health System employees are female – higher than the U.S. workforce average of 46.9 percent.

According to Martha Reeves, a visiting scholar in Women’s Studies and Sociology at Duke, the wealth of women is not unusual for a university, where many staff jobs are based on service and support. Across the nation, and at Duke, women are over-represented in fields like nursing, clerical work and service areas such as dining and housekeeping. >> continued on page 6

Duke’s proportion of women is higher than the U.S. workforce average of 46.9 percent.

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In nursing fields at Duke, 5,039 of the 5,563 employees are female, according to Duke Human Resources. This bumps up the proportion of women in the Health System to 75 percent.

“We are slowly seeing more men join the field of nursing, but I think the public today would still find it very odd if a health care organization did not have a very high proportion of women,” said Mary Ann Fuchs, chief nursing officer for Duke University Health System.

Reeves, the visiting scholar, said Duke’s high proportion of women may also reflect that academic institutions offer more flexibility around work and family responsibilities. “In my experience, academia is more conducive to work-life balance than many businesses driven by quarterly stock performance,” she said.

Duke addresses work-life balance and provides family-friendly policies, on-site child care centers and professional development through groups like the Administrative Women’s Network.

Christine Vucinich, an outreach coordinator with the Office of Information Technology, attended the women-only “Woman to Woman Financial Empowerment” seminar. The seminar was presented over the summer in partnership with Duke Human Resources and the Administrative Women’s Network.

“It was empowering to see women in so many different roles – managers, staff assistants, coordinators, directors,” Vucinich said.

“I realize I have lots of good role models around me.”

How Duke is Addressing Workforce Aging By 2017, an average of 20 percent of Duke’s faculty and staff at the University and Health System will be eligible to retire.

Will Duke be ready?

“In coming years, workforces everywhere will have an exodus of employees,” said Keith Morris, a practitioner with Duke’s Learning and Organization Development. “People will be leaving with a lot of institutional knowledge. The question to those who remain is, ‘how do you bridge that gap and retain that knowledge base, which is critical to continuing strong institutions?’ ” In today’s workforce, generational diversity is readily apparent. At Duke, four generations make up staff and faculty ranks: Millennial (born 1980 to 1995) Generation X (1965 to 1979) Baby Boomer (born 1946 to 1964) Veteran (born before 1946) Baby Boomers comprise the largest group – 38 percent of Duke’s 34,863 staff and faculty, according to Duke Human Resources. Along with the Veteran generation, nearly half of all Duke employees were born before 1965, meaning as retirement approaches for some employees, others will prepare to fill vacancies.

To address the issue, Duke offers initiatives like the First-Time Supervisor Program and Duke Leadership Academy.

Both programs recognize emerging leaders across Duke by teaching leadership qualities.

Four different generations of employees comprise Duke’s workforce. Veterans and Baby Boomers are closest to Activities include coaching, classroom reaching retirement age and include nearly half of faculty and staff. learning, personal assessments and application of leadership theories. So far, about 150 employees have graduated from the two programs.

Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, said offering an educational track to leadership helps keep valuable knowledge at Duke. The programs offer unique perspectives and practical experiences from long-tenured leaders to developing ones, he said.

“The initiatives have proven to be outstanding strategies in developing our internal talent and in setting the stage to address emerging succession issues,” Cavanaugh said. “While we have numerous internal development programs for our employees, these two have been successful in identifying individuals who have capacity, interest and energy around broader responsibilities.”

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By the Numbers Duke University & Duke University Health System

34,863 Total headcount

61,267 The average length of service for a Duke employee is more than double the national average in the education and hospital industry.

Longer Tenure Than National Average After two job layoffs in less than five years, Betty Jones was relieved when she got a staff assistant position at Duke.

“I remember thinking ‘no more interviews, no more job searching,’” she said. “I was looking for stability, and that’s what Duke offered.”

That was 10 years ago.

Jones is not alone in seeing Duke as a solid place to stay: the average length of service for Duke staff and faculty is 9.09 years, more than double the national average of 4.4 years in the education and hospital industry.

Meanwhile, the number of people applying to work at Duke is steadily increasing. In 2008, an average of 7,714 individuals applied for work each month. This year, the monthly average rose to 12,459. In October alone, there were 12,767 applicants for 1,085 open jobs.

Betty Jones Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration, said the long employee tenure and consistently high job applicant numbers reflect the stature of the university.

“The combination of excellent benefits, the inclusive environment and The the sense that the Duke team combination is making a difference in education, health and research of excellent benefits, make Duke a unique place to the inclusive work,” he said.

For Jones, the relief of environment and the being hired by the Alumni sense that the Duke Association at Duke has been followed by the pride team is making a of professional development. Four years difference in education, ago, she was promoted to health and research make Duke a unique staff specialist and is now the primary contact for all place to work.” regional alumni events.

— Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president for administration “I plan to stay at Duke until I retire,” Jones said. >> continued on page 8 “It’s just too good to leave.”

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Employees and dependents covered by Duke’s health plans

44.11 Average age

5,762 Faculty

22,513 Female

12,350 Male

19 percent Total hires that comprise nursing

12,767 October job applicants Source: Duke Human Resources, fiscal year 2011-12

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Most Employees Call Durham County Home From weekly farmers markets to restaurants and festivals, it’s more than just the moniker that attracted Emily Durham to live in the city that shares her name.

“Durham is a great place for young professionals,” she said. “It’s an affordable place to live, and it has all the amenities you’d want in a big city, but it feels like a small one.”

She is one of slightly more than 17,000 employees – about half of the entire Duke workforce – who live in Durham County, which covers the entirety of the city of Durham and small portions of northwest Raleigh and eastern Chapel Hill. Durham County is home to the highest number of Duke faculty and staff, followed by Wake County with 7,540 employees.

In all, Duke employees live in 78 of 100 counties in North Carolina, while 897 About half of Duke’s workforce lives in Durham County. live out of state and 88 live abroad in places like China, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates, according to Duke Human Resources.

When Durham, a program coordinator with DukeEngage, started her job at Duke three years ago, she had only visited the Bull City a few times. Growing up in Greensboro, she didn’t realize all the City of Durham had to offer, like the Carolina Theatre or a growing “foodie” culture.

She lives near South Square now, but she said she can’t wait to move downtown and immerse herself in the city with favorite hangouts like Old Havana Sandwich Shop, concerts at the American Tobacco Campus and the East Campus track.

“Durham is consistently ranked as one of the best places to live, work and play,” said city of Durham Mayor William “Bill” Bell. “The Duke employees who have chosen to live in our community are a vital part of the intricate tapestry that makes Durham so accepting, culturally diverse and community-spirited.”

Emily Durham, a program coordinator with DukeEngage, poses at Brightleaf Square, one of her favorite places in Durham.

Editor’s Note About This Special Report The data used in “Who Are We?” reflects workforce demographics at Duke University and Duke University Health System during fiscal year 2011-12. It excludes temporary employees, students and PRNs, who are nurses who work as the situation demands.

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Marsha Green and Bryan Roth of the Office of Communication Services wrote the stories. Paul Figuerado designed the graphics, and Leanora Minai edited the package.

William Conescu, right, director of Duke development communications, explores the Duke Forward website with Alice McKenzie at the Duke Forward campus launch.

$3.25 Billion Campaign is University-wide Effort Campaign Themes

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taff members in the Office of University Development arrived Oct. 1 exhausted but delighted to find their inboxes filled with well wishes and congratulations.

After two years of fundraising and months of event planning, they had officially launched “Duke Forward: Partnering for the Future,” the university’s $3.25 billion fundraising campaign, during a weekend of events, including a gala for about 800 people.

“It was an incredible start and a labor of love, but there’s a lot more to be done,” said Sarah West, the associate vice president for strategic planning and the campaign.

Part of that work involves building on the momentum of the campus launch by engaging supporters where they work and live. Senior leaders from Duke will attend regional events in Atlanta, Washington D.C., San Francisco, New York and London before the end of the academic year.

“It takes a little army of staff and volunteers to put on each of these events,” West said.

Duke Forward, which continues until 2017, raised $1.325 billion during its “silent phase” over the past two years. The campaign includes goals for all 10 of Duke’s schools, the Health System and a range of university programs including financial aid, faculty

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development, research and patient care, athletics and annual giving. A significant part of the campaign will focus on Duke’s unique strengths, including interdisciplinary efforts in basic and translational medical science, innovation and entrepreneurship, the arts, energy, global health and the environment.

Generating excitement about these priorities comes, in large part, from sharing stories of how Duke has made a difference from faculty, staff and students.

“We show people the quality of people who work here, how meaningful their work is to them and how hard they try for it,” President Richard H. Brodhead said in October during Primetime, an employee forum.

He recalled the poignancy of meeting a Duke medical postdoctoral student at the campaign launch who’s life had been saved at age 5 by pioneering stem cell research carried out at Duke.

“These are the sort of miracles that only a research university can create,” Brodhead said.

Duke staff and faculty are encouraged to participate in the campaign by sharing their Duke stories on the campaign website, dukeforward.duke.edu.

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Boundaries Not Included: Enriching the Duke Experience ($600 million) Experiential Learning Innovation and Entrepreneurship The Residential Experience The Arts Duke Athletics

Blazing New Paths: Activating Duke’s Power for the World ($1.4 billion) Global Health Medical Discovery and Patient Care Energy The Environment Interdisciplinary Research Durham and the Region

Fueling Uncontainable Ideas: Sustaining Duke’s Momentum, ($1.25 billion) Financial Aid Faculty Excellence Duke Annual Fund

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Buy Discount Season Tickets to Women’s Basketball

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ean Hanson has always been a big sports fan, but it wasn’t until 1999 that she found a game-changing passion.

That was the year she first stepped in Cameron Indoor Stadium to watch the Duke women’s basketball team. She received tickets by purchasing the Employee Athletic Pass.

By the 2000-01 season, Hanson was hooked on watching AllAmericans Alana Beard and Georgia Schweitzer lead the Blue Devils to a 30-win season.

“It took me a few games to realize how cool it was to watch them play,” said Hanson, associate director of clinical support and outreach for Duke Student Health. “Our women are such phenomenal athletes, and I don’t think a lot of people realize what kind of high-caliber play they can watch right on campus for a great price.”

Through the Employee Athletic Pass, presented by the Duke Credit Union, women’s basketball season tickets are available now at a discounted rate of $75. The price provides four tickets to each game in Cameron Indoor Stadium and includes matchups against ACC rivals like Maryland and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

The regular season ends March 3.

Faculty and staff can purchase the Employee Athletic Pass by calling Duke Athletics’ ticket office at (919) 681-2583.

“With a very exciting season, we need the Duke faculty and staff ’s help to achieve our goal of packing Cameron Indoor Stadium each and every contest,” said women’s basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie. “The support we receive in the stands during games and from all across Duke from our faculty and staff is incredible. They are a very important part to the success of our program.”

Melissa Reese hopes to see a packed Cameron Indoor Stadium this season. She’s attended nearly every women’s home basketball game for nearly 20 years and travels to some games in Chapel Hill and Raleigh and games in Maryland and Virginia. A research analyst in Duke’s Stem Cell Laboratory, Reese invites friends and family to join her at games to spread interest and show off the excitement of Blue Devil basketball.

“I think the young women on the team are excellent role models, especially for young girls,” Reese said. “It’s also a convenient and inexpensive way to take part in the famous Cameron atmosphere because the Duke women’s basketball fans are very enthusiastic about this team.”

Duke women’s basketball fans cheer during a game at Cameron Indoor Stadium last year.

Jean Hanson, standing in the long-sleeve white T-shirt with Duke blue short sleeve T-shirt, has attended Duke games for more than a decade. Photo courtesy of Orin Day.

Duke Women’s Basketball By the Numbers Three straight ACC regular season titles 10 returning players, including four starters 13 home wins in 2011-12 season 19 NCAA tournament appearances 141 wins at Duke for head coach Joanne P. McCallie entering 2012-13 season

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FacultyAnnual andfitness Staffchallenge Set tostarts ‘Get Moving’ Jan. 14 This team of employees from Duke’s Division of Gynecologic Oncology averaged the most minutes of exercise among all teams in last year’s Get Moving Challenge.

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lunch or in the 08 million steps. evening – activities 2.8 million they continued after exercise the competition minutes. 3,879 Register now for the Get Moving Challenge at hr.duke.edu/getmoving. Participants ended. pounds. can compete individually or form teams of five to 11 employees. Competition “Even though That’s what 2,800 focuses on who walks the most steps, exercises the most minutes and loses the we’re separated from faculty and staff across most weight. The challenge runs Jan. 14 to March 24.

Duke’s main campus Duke accomplished last in Durham, Get year as part of the Get Moving helped us feel the spirit of campus activities,” Lo Piccolo Moving Challenge, a team-based fitness competition that returns said. “Participating helped us build nice rapport within our Jan. 14.

Employees can register for the Get Moving Challenge now at community and made us feel connected.”

During the upcoming Get Moving Challenge, pedometers will hr.duke.edu/getmoving and form teams of five to 11 employees. be provided to competitors tracking daily steps. Individuals track Like last year, competition will focus on who can walk the most their own progress and compete against other individuals. steps, exercise the most minutes and lose the most weight. Sponsored “We were thrilled with the effort so many faculty and staff put

by LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program, the into last year’s program,” said Julie Joyner, manager for LIVE FOR competition runs Jan. 14 to March 24. Registration is open through LIFE. “It’s exciting to see employees embrace the challenge to achieve the end of January. better health and wellness.”

“There’s a little bit of a competitor in all of us, and it’s a really Among the returning competitors is Ellen Stevens, whose fun way to set a healthy routine,” said Rachel Lo Piccolo, Ph.D. “Crazy Ladies” team of employees from Duke’s Division of program coordinator at Duke’s Marine Lab in Beaufort. “Looking at Gynecologic Oncology managed the seventh highest total of average other teams’ progress pushed me to try a little harder. It never hurts to have encouragement.” steps taken and finished first in average minutes of exercise.

During last year’s Get Moving Challenge, Lo Piccolo and seven “It’s definitely a way to improve your health and improve your other employees at the Marine Lab in Beaufort formed the “Marine ability to bond with coworkers,” said Stevens, a postdoctoral research Lab Movers,” which finished ninth overall in team rankings for associate in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology. “Exercising average steps taken. She said her team did well because it built fitness together just motivates us to do more and work harder to win.” routines into the day, like going for short walks before work, during

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Learn about the Get Moving Challenge and sign up at hr.duke.edu/getmoving

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Giving Back During the Holiday Season

Each year, large bags of gifts line the office hallways at Duke Chapel, as employees and worshippers donate items as part of Project Share.

‘PROJECT SHARE’ ORGANIZES DONATION EFFORTS ON CAMPUS

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s the good will of Duke community members hits a holiday high, Rev. Bruce Puckett is capitalizing.

Puckett, director of community ministry at the Duke Chapel, is among faculty and staff taking part in Duke’s annual “Project Share,” a program that works to create holiday memories for those in need throughout the Durham community.

Every year, Duke Chapel employees and worshippers “adopt” Durham families and collect a variety of gifts to donate to them.

“There’s something really special about seeing people’s faces when they receive gifts,” Puckett said. “It’s a time of year when everyone should have the chance to be joyful and having a giving heart can benefit us as much as the people who receive our gifts.”

Project Share is an annual effort coordinated through the Duke Community Service Center in partnership with the Volunteer Center of Durham and Durham’s Department of Social Services. It’s part of the larger “Share Your Christmas” program run by the Durham offices. This will be the 37th year Duke has held Project Share, which concludes Dec. 5.

“Our story is no different than any other non-profit – we have increased need and diminished resources, which make it difficult to be able to do all you want to do,” said Kim Shaw, executive director of the Volunteer Center of Durham. “Having a strong community partner like Duke is important because we know we can count on Duke every year.”

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During each holiday season, Duke pledges to provide gifts for at least 300 adults and children across Durham through donations from Duke departments, offices and student groups. On average, it costs about $50 to sponsor one person.

For Puckett, that means lots of shopping. Duke Chapel staff and worshippers received a “wish list” in the fall from the Community Service Center describing about 70 Durham residents the Chapel will sponsor. Puckett and other staff purchase gifts like clothing or blankets.

“We collect items and store them in our office until we run out of space,” he said. “After a few weeks, we organize and deliver the gifts that have been donated.”

For the past five years, Pegeen Ryan-Murray helped organize a Project Share effort for the Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows. She'd set out a donation box and have a contest to see which scholarship group had the most number of students make a donation. After money was collected, students from the scholarship groups would go shopping and hold a wrapping party.

“It made us all feel good doing something positive that made a difference in people’s lives,” said Ryan-Murray, now a program coordinator for the Pratt School of Engineering’s Engineering World Health Summer Institute. “If everyone did this, it’d be a different kind of world.”

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Get involved with Duke-Durham community efforts at csc.civic.duke.edu or send email to domonique.redmond@duke.edu

Teamwork & Diversityawards

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team of employees who implemented critical new technology in Duke University Health System and professors who engaged the Duke University community in discussions around race and gender received awards in November for teamwork and diversity, two of Duke’s hallmark guiding principles.

The 52-member Maestro Care Ambulatory Group received the Teamwork Award for implementing the new Maestro Care electronic health record system in 33 primary care clinics in July.

Paula D. McClain and Kerry L. Haynie, co-directors of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS), received the Diversity Award.

TEAMWORK AWARD In April 2011, Duke approved the purchase and implementation of EpicCare, an electronic health records system to integrate patient records across all of Duke University Health System’s clinics and hospitals. The primary care clinics were the first wave of settings selected to implement the new system called “Maestro Care.”

A 52-member team of computer programmers, clinical liaisons, trainers, physician champions, interface analysts and technical administrators customized the system for Duke’s primary care setting, loaded millions of rows of data and trained more than 1,400 users before the critical go-live date.

Karen Rourk, who nominated the team as director of the Maestro Care Ambulatory project, said the support, guidance and technical work during the yearlong implementation was vital to the successful launch to all 33 clinics in July. “I’ve been at Duke for almost 18 years, and the Ambulatory Team is one of the most collaborative and successful groups I’ve ever been a part of,” she said.

DIVERSITY AWARD If a Duke faculty or graduate student’s research interests touch upon race, ethnicity or gender in the social sciences, it has probably come to the attention of Paula D. McClain and Kerry L. Haynie, co-directors of the Center for the Kerry L. Haynie, left, and Paula D. McClain Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS).

REGSS has sponsored lectures and visiting scholars, held five major national conferences, brought six scholars to campus through a distinguished lecture series and created mentoring programs to create and support a community dedicated to examining the complex intersections of race, gender and ethnicity.

“REGSS has provided the singular university formal platform for celebrating faculty work that crosses these intersections,” said Karla Holloway, the James B. Duke Professor of English who nominated REGSS for the Diversity Award. “Perhaps even more critical, it is REGSS that incoming faculty and scholars of color look to for recruitment conversations and the kinds of programming that eventually convince them to come to Duke.”

BY MARSHA A. GREEN

The Maestro Care Team with Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead and Health System Executive Vice President William J. Fulkerson.

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PERQS employee discounts

Travel Made Easy with Duke Employee Discounts

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hen Susie Palmieri was planning a trip to Charleston, S.C. with her husband, she made two reservations: two nights in a hotel for them and two nights for Precious, her 25-pound mixed-breed dog, at Camp Bow Wow in Durham.

“If you take the dog with you on vacation, it cuts down on the ‘honey and me’ time,” said Palmieri, a service access manager for inpatient surgical reservations at Duke’s Patient Revenue Management Organization.

Through PERQS, Duke’s employee discount program, Palmieri receives a 10 percent discount on dog boarding. Camp Bow Wow [j.mp/T3rCBv] is one of several employee discounts that can make travel easier.

Here are others:

Roadside protection with AAA

You can save $10 on the enrollment fee when joining AAA Carolinas for the first time. AAA offers 24-hour roadside assistance, including help with lockouts, towing, flat tires, dead batteries and running out of gas. Members have access to a range of other product and service discounts, free maps and tour books and reimbursement for certain expenses incurred if a trip is delayed for more than 24 hours because of theft or a car accident more than 100 miles from home.

Membership levels range from $49 to $149. j.mp/PmggcH

Save on parking at RDU Leave your vehicle at FastPark & Relax and let the FastPark shuttle deliver you directly to the airport, less than 10 minutes away. Sign up for the Relax for Rewards program and pay $4 per day for parking ($4.75 starting in January 2013). j.mp/VfLncp

Experience Broadway CorporateOffers.com offers discounts from 30 to 60 percent on Broadway shows such as Cinderella, Elf and A Christmas Story the Musical. Shows are listed up to two months in advance. You must access the CorporateOffers.com website from a Duke computer to gain access to the discount. j.mp/WtwW3M

Celebrate the holidays at Biltmore The holidays are a special time at the Biltmore Estate, the 250-room chateau and grounds built by George Vanderbilt in the 1890s in Asheville, N.C. See the 35-foot tree in the Banquet Hall, learn how to make traditional wreaths at A Gardener’s Place, taste wine at the Winery or whisper wishes into Santa’s ear on weekends while shopping at Antler Hill Village. Duke staff and faculty save up to $10 per ticket on daytime entrance fees. j.mp/X3yU9G — COMPILED BY MARSHA A. GREEN

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Sign Up for Green Devil Smackdown Teams form for sustainability-themed team competition

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he battle for the belt has begun, but it’s not too late to step into the ring.

About 850 students, faculty and staff have signed up to prove their mettle in the second “Green Devil Smackdown,” Duke’s sustainability-themed competition that runs through March 2013. Duke The Pratt School of Engineering’s “greengineering” team displays the Green Devil community members Smackdown championship belt after winning it in the last sustainability competition, can sign up and form which ran Feb–April 2012. teams any time to The belt, which has been proudly displayed in earn points for “green” actions, such as a case by Twinnie’s Cafe in the Fitzpatrick riding the bus, carpooling or completing Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, the Duke Carbon Calculator.

Medicine, and Applied Science, is now “Ultimately, the Smackdown is all about awaiting its new home. how we can inspire and challenge our peers to August Burns, departmental business be more sustainable,” said Tavey Capps, Duke’s manager for the Fitzpatrick Institute sustainability director. “The last competition for Photonics, was a member of Pratt’s was one of our most successful outreach efforts, “greengineering” team. She said and I can’t wait to see how this year’s program participating in the Green Devil extends the reach and impact of sustainable Smackdown isn’t just about winning. initiatives across campus.”

She’s adopted more sustainable behaviors – The team that earns the highest like using WeCar, Duke’s car-sharing average points per participant will be program, and buying a hybrid car. crowned champion and receive a custom“The Smackdown gave me a little designed championship belt. In addition, extra nudge because I was thinking about a drawing will be held at the end of the sustainability when I was looking for a car,” competition to award an iPad to a Duke said Burns, who traded in her 2001 Nissan community member who completes at least Altima and bought a 2012 Kia Optima after seven challenges during the competition. last year’s Smackdown. “It’s among the best In the last Smackdown challenge, a Pratt decisions I’ve ever made because I get my School of Engineering team with 13 staff money back by saving on better mileage, members and a graduate student won the and I’m not burning as much gas.” challenge and claimed the championship belt.

2012 Smackdown Numbers

292 Participants ate at a campus eatery with local/organic fare

236 Participants attended campus Earth Month event

67 Students, faculty and staff who made donations to Duke Free Store

35 Volunteers at Duke Campus Farm

50 Staff members who completed the Leading for Environmental Sustainability workshop

10 Offices/departments that earned Green Workplace Certification

BY BRYAN ROTH The first Smackdown ran February-April 2012.

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I live in Timberlake in Person County. My favorite thing is I’m far enough away from Durham so I can enjoy peace and quiet, but close enough to enjoy theater and fine dining in the city. My husband and I both like going to concerts, so we go to shows at DPAC and the Carolina Theatre.”

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I live in Hillsborough, and there are so many things, but I love the fact there are three great auction houses near me. I try to go on weekends and look for treasures like Japanese antiques or classic vinyl records.”

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