Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Some big-name programs at Duke are about to go under a budgetary microscope - RAY GRONBERG, Herald-Sun
Budget watchdogs at Duke University will spend the coming months looking at the finances of 11 flagship programs like the Duke Global Health Institute and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. The review will play out in Duke’s University Priorities Committee, a high-level group of professors, administrators, deans and students that advises President Vince Price. Its chairwoman, Nicholas School of the Environment professor Lori Bennear, said the move comes at the request of Provost Sally Kornbluth. Kornbluth “thought, and I agreed, that it was time to conduct a detailed review of each of” the programs to make sure their “finances are well-aligned with their mission and that the funds are being spent optimally,” Bennear told professors on Duke’s Academic Council recently.
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