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Committee Formed for Regular Review of President Price

Trustee Allyson Duncan will chair the committee

President Vincent E. Price

Since 1982, in addition to annual performance reviews, Duke University has conducted at regular intervals, reviews of the President of the University, the senior officers and deans. The Board of Trustees believes these reviews have been useful for these university leaders and healthy for the university community.

Consistent with past practice, the Board of Trustees has initiated a review of the performance of President Vincent E. Price in November 2020, in the fall of the fourth year of his five-year term. Chair Jack O. Bovender, Jr., in consultation with the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the Academic Council, has charged a committee of trustees, faculty, and students to gather and distill information for the trustees to consider in its review of President Price’s first term of service. The committee includes:  Trustee Allyson K. Duncan, as chair, Trustees Edward A. Gilhuly, Gerald L. Hassell, Betsy D. Holden, and Hope Morgan Ward, Professors James Coleman, Jr., Theodore Pappas, Charlotte Sussman, and Donald Taylor, Jr, and Students Reshma Nargund G'25 and Steven Herrera Tenorio T'21. Chair Bovender has charged the Presidential Review Committee:

to invite and gather information and opinions widely from faculty, administrators, employees, students, alumni, friends of the university and leaders in higher education. The review should focus on the effectiveness of the president in leading a complex and ambitious university and in articulating a vision for its future. The review should also consider initiatives and activities that have gone well and should be continued and to make suggestions for improvements. Information may be gathered by mail, email, surveys, and through meetings with individuals. The committee is charged with organizing the information and advice it receives and providing a summary for the Board of Trustees.

The Presidential Review Committee welcomes information from members of the university community. Information provided to the committee will be held in confidence but may be reported without attribution as part of the summary report that will be submitted to the Board of Trustees. If you wish to share your thoughts with members of the committee, please do so by December 18.

Presidential Review Committee
Duke University
Allyson K. Duncan, Chair
Box 90030
Durham, North Carolina 27708
Email:  pres-review@duke.edu