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Duke and Men's Lacrosse >> Background on New University Committees EDITOR'S NOTE: On April 5, 2006, Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced in a letter to the Duke community that he would ask separate committees to report on issues raised in the wake of the controversy involving members of the men's lacrosse team. This fact sheet provides an update and additional information about the committees. Summary of Committee Reports Completed to DateThe following groups and committees carried out reviews of issues raised by the lacrosse team incident:
Chairs: Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, (co-chair), one of the first three black students admitted to Duke's Woman's College, is provost/vice president academic affairs at the University of the District of Columbia. After graduating from Duke in 1967, she attended Harvard University as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar and in 1973 received a law degree from the University of Michigan as a John Hay Whitney Fellow. Reuben-Cooke was elected as a Duke trustee in 1989, becoming the first woman of color to serve in that capacity. She served on the board until 2001. Reuben-Cooke chaired the trustees' Academic Affairs Committee and served on the Executive Committee.
Other committee members:
Sarah Dodds-Brown serves as counsel for the Global Network and Establishment Services business units of American Express. Prior to that, she was an associate at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP. She has been outspoken about the challenges minority lawyers face in the field and pioneered the mentor program for minority lawyers at Paul, Weiss. A 1995 Duke graduate, she served on the Trinity College Board of Visitors from 1998 to 2005 and currently serves on the Financial Aid Initiative Committee. The Duke Student Government elected Dodds-Brown as the young trustee in 1995, and she served in that capacity from 1995-98. Julian Harris, who was a Truman Scholar and a Rhodes Scholar, is a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated summa cum laude from Duke with a bachelor's degree in health policy and medical ethics in 2000. An Angier B. Duke Scholar, he chaired the Honor Council and served as a student director on the board of the Center for Academic Integrity. After graduation, he earned a master's degree in economic and social history from Oxford University. He then joined the World Bank, where his work focused on strengthening national AIDS policy in several African countries. Harris currently serves on the advisory board of the Kenan Institute for Ethics. Kathryn (Katie) Laidlaw is a senior associate with The Parthenon Group, a strategic advisory and investment firm, in Boston. She is also a member of Parthenon's Charitable Contributions Committee, serving as the community service coordinator. She graduated magna cum laude from Duke in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in French and European Studies, a minor in comparative area studies, and a certificate in Markets & Management. Laidlaw is serving a three-year elected term as a Duke young trustee and is a member of the Student Affairs Committee. She also serves as executive director of Inspire, a volunteer organization that offers strategic thinking and results-driven analysis to schools and nonprofits in five cities. Morton Schapiro became president of Williams College in 2000. Prior to that, he served in a variety of administrative and faculty positions at Williams and at the University of Southern California, where he was professor of economics, dean and vice president. Schapiro is among the nation's premier authorities on the economics of higher education, with particular expertise in the area of college financing and affordability, and on trends in educational costs and student aid. He earned a bachelor's degree from Hofstra University in 1975 and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. Adam Silver, a 1984 graduate of Duke, will become NBA deputy commissioner and chief operating officer on July 1. During 14 years with the NBA, Silver has served in a variety of roles, most recently as president and COO of NBA Entertainment. He received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988. In 2003, CNN and Time Magazine named Silver one of 20 Global Business Influentials. He serves on the Library Advisory Board at Duke. Shirley Tilghman is president of Princeton University. She is one of the founding members of the National Advisory Council of the Human Genome Project Initiative for the National Institutes of Health, and has been a national leader in promoting women in science. She received national attention for a report on “Trends in the Careers of Life Scientists” that was issued in 1998 by a committee she chaired for the National Research Council. In 2002, Tilghman was one of five winners of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award, and the following year received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Developmental Biology. She earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University in Philadelphia and her Honors B. Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Judy Woodruff, an award-winning broadcast journalist, has been an anchor at CNN, a White House correspondent for NBC and Washington correspondent for PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. This year she returned to PBS and the Lehrer NewsHour as a special correspondent. A 1968 Duke political science graduate, she will teach a class this fall in Duke's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, part of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. She has been active in the formation of the Duke's Baldwin Scholars Program for undergraduate women. Woodruff served as a university trustee from 1985-97. In 1994, she received an honorary degree from Duke and was the commencement speaker. Phail Wynn, the first African-American community college president in North Carolina, was appointed president of Durham Technical Institute, now Durham Technical Community College, in 1980. He is a member of the board of directors of the Triangle Community Foundation, founding member of the Greater Triangle Regional Council and member of the Board of Governors of Research Triangle Institute. He also sits on the corporate board of directors of SunTrust Bank and on the board of directors of UNC Health Care System. He is a past chair of the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce. Prior to becoming president of Durham Tech, Wynn served with the 82nd Airborne Division and the U.S. Army Special Forces. He holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Oklahoma, a master's degree in educational psychology, a doctorate from N.C. State University and a Master of Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Purpose: Scrutinize Duke's responses to the lacrosse team incident, advise the president on best practices in other university settings and consider ways Duke can promote its values. Timeline: Report to President Brodhead and the Duke Board of Trustees. First meeting this spring.
Investigation of Duke Administration Response May 8, 2006 Report (PDF) Chairs: William G. Bowen is president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He was president of Princeton University from 1972-1988, where he also was professor of economics and public affairs. Bowen is the author or co-author of 20 books, including "Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education," with Martin A. Kurzweil and Eugene M. Tobin; "Reclaiming the Game: College Sports and Educational Values" with Sarah A. Levin; "The Game of Life: College Sports and Educational Values" with James Shulman; and the Grawemeyer Award-winning "The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions" with Derek Bok.
Other committee members: None Purpose: Investigate the Duke administration's performance in responding to the allegations involving the Duke men's lacrosse team. Specifically, address the perception that the university did not respond as quickly as it should have and point to lessons the episode can teach. Timeline: Report to President Brodhead and the Duke University Board of Trustees by May 15.
Investigation of Men's Lacrosse Chair:
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Purpose: Lead Duke's examination of the on- and off-campus conduct of its men's lacrosse team. The panel, a subcommittee of the university's Athletic Council, will not look into the criminal allegations against the team; rather, it will investigate "the extent to which the cumulative behavior of many over a number of years signifies a deeper problem for which significant corrective actions are called for." Timeline: Report to President Brodhead and the Executive Committee of the Academic Council, the university's faculty senate, by May 1.
Examination of Student Judicial Process and Practices Chair:
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Purpose: The Academic Council's Student Affairs Committee will examine the way Duke deals with problems of student behavior by reviewing the existing judicial system for students and making recommendations for change. The committee will look at several questions, such as whether the Community Standard and policies that apply to student behavior adequately convey Duke's values and behavioral expectations; "whether distinctions between on-campus and off-campus behaviors, and Duke's approach to adjudication of those behaviors, are appropriate; and whether there are limitations in the policies that prevent various behaviors from being addressed appropriately and effectively. Timeline: Report to President Brodhead, Academic Council chair Paul Haagen and the Executive Committee of the Academic Council, the university's faculty senate, by May 1.
Read the release and the February 26, 2007 report Chair: Vice-Chair:
Committee Members: Purpose: A rigorous self-examination "to evaluate and suggest improvements in the ways Duke educates students in the values of personal responsibility, consideration for others and mutual respect in the face of difference and disagreement." Charge
Timeline: Issue a preliminary report to President Brodhead by December 1, with a follow-up report in May 2007.
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