ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEETING
Thursday, February 18, 2016
3:30 p.m. - 0012 Westbrook (Divinity School)

1. Welcome / Announcements

2. Approval of minutes from the January 21, 2016 meeting (minutes)

3. President Brodhead’s Task Force on Bias and Hate: Co-chairs Dean of the Sanford School Kelly Brownell and Dean of the Social Sciences Linda Burton

4. VOTE:  Proposed Duke-NUS joint PhD in Integrated Biology & Medicine
(Proposal) (Provost's Memo) (APC Resolution)

5. VOTE:  Proposed name change to the existing master’s degree in Art, Art History & Visual Studies
(Proposal) (Provost's Memo) (APC Resolution)

6. Proposal from the Franklin Humanities Institute for hiring authority of regular-rank, non-tenure-track faculty: Professor Deborah Jenson
(Proposal) (Provost's Memo) (APC Resolution)

7. [Executive Session] Presentation by Tracy Futhey, VP, Information Technology & CIO and Richard Biever, Chief Information Security Officer and Director of Identity Management