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Comments Sought in Regular Review of Vice Provost Keith Whitfield

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Keith Whitfield

The provost of Duke University conducts regular reviews of all vice provosts, senior staff, and faculty who have major administrative positions reporting to the provost.  Provost Sally Kornbluth has appointed a committee to conduct a review of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Keith Whitfield, who is in the final year of his five-year term.  

The committee is chaired by Tom Nechyba, Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Social Science Research Institute and EcoTeach Center.

The other members are:

  • Lee Baker, Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education;
  • Nick Carnes, Assistant Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy;
  • Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor, Departments of History and African and African American Studies and John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History, Duke Law School;
  • Scott Huettel, Jerry and Patricia Hubbard Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience;
  • Marilyn Lombardi, Associate Professor and Director, Center of Nursing Collaboration, Entrepreneurship and Technology, School of Nursing; and
  • Josh Socolar, Professor, Department of Physics.

The committee would like to hear from any members of the Duke community who would like to comment on the performance of Vice Provost Whitfield or on the scope of his activities. The committee invites you to share your thoughts by email (admin-review-input@duke.edu) or in a  letter to the chair.  Please include a description of the nature of your interactions with Vice Provost Whitfield or of the ways in which his work affects your own.  Suggestions for constructive changes to the portfolio of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs are also welcome.

All communications will be treated as confidential, to be shared only with the members of the committee.  An aggregate summary will be included in the committee’s written report to the provost. 

The deadline for submitting comments is October 16, 2015.