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 2006 – “Bottom of the top” – Can we hire the faculty we really want and need for what Duke wants to be?  Making a Difference Where are we now?

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

Duke’s Standing

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

Breadth of Quality across Ranks

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

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

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

Guillermo Sapiro Professor of Computer Science College of Arts and Sciences Came 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

Ingrid Daubechies James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Came to Duke in 2010 Laurent Dubois Marcelo Lotti Professor in Romance Studies and History Director, Center for French and Francophone Studies Director of Scholars & Publics Initiative Co-director of Haiti Humanities Laboratory College of Arts and Sciences Came 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 Terri Moffitt, Knut Schmidt Nielsen Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences College of Arts and Sciences Came to Duke in 2007

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

Regular Rank Faculty Growth

Faculty Age Tenured and Tenure Track

Faculty Retention

Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Faculty Diversity

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

Teaching Innovation, 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

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

Building a Great 21 st 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

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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