Highlights:
Construction began on a $22-million building addition,
which will include a 315-seat chapel; a lecture hall
and state-of-the-art classrooms; office suites for
student life, Duke Chapel music staff and the Duke
Institute on Care at the End of Life; a new bookstore;
and a dining area and terrace. Completion is expected
in early 2005.
The Divinity School was awarded a $3.1-million grant
from Lilly Endowment Inc. to coordinate a $57-million
Lilly-funded program aimed at strengthening the quality
of pastoral leadership across America.
The Divinity School launched a new four-year program,
Caring Communities: Health Ministries and the Practice
of Faithful Caring, underwritten by The Duke Endowment,
to provide interdisciplinary training in health ministry
for health care providers, clergy, lay leaders and
community leaders.
Awards and recognition:
The Company of Preachers, edited by Richard Lischer,
the James T. and Alice Mead Cleland professor of
preaching, and Grace Matters, by current Divinity
student Chris P. Rice, were named best of the year
in their respective categories by Christianity Today
(June 2003).
Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture
by Grant Wacker, professor of church history, won the
2002 Book Award in the category of historical studies
from the American Academy of Religion.
Faculty appointments and promotions:
- Daniel C. Arichea Jr., Bishop-in-Residence, from
Union Theological Seminary, Philippines
- Douglas Campbell, Assistant Professor of New
Testament from Kings College, University of London
- Susan Eastman, Assistant Professor of the Practice
of Bible and Christian Formation
- Emmanuel Katongole, Associate Research Professor of
Theology and World Christianity from Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi
- Anathea Portier-Young, Assistant Professor of Old
Testament
- Tammy Williams, Lecturing Fellow in African-American
Theology from the doctoral program at Fuller Theological Seminary
- Fred Edie, Assistant Professor of the Practice of
Christian Education
- Peter Storey, named the Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams
Professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry
School statistics:
The 2002-2003 student body consisted of 495 students from
35 states and 10 foreign countries. Forty-five percent of
the students are women and 18 percent are ethnic minorities.
Major gifts:
Gifts and pledges to the Divinity School totaled $12.3 million
and the school exceeded its Campaign for Duke goal of $85 million.
