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