Highlights:
The Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership and Ethics (COLE) was established in collaboration with the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Duke Athletics Department.
A health sector management concentration was launched in The Duke MBA--Weekend Executive program.
Rankings included:
Special programs or achievements:
General Motors Corp. partnered with Fuqua, the Pratt School of Engineering and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy to establish a teaching/research project to further worldwide efforts to develop hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.
Awards and recognition:
Professor Wesley Cohen was awarded the Distinguished Frederick C. Joerg Professorship.
School statistics:
During FY 2003-04 the total student body included 750 Daytime and 762 Executive MBA students and 248 non-degree executive education participants.
Major gifts:
Fuqua closed its part of the five-year Campaign for Duke at $91.6 million in December. The 2003-04 record fundraising total of $13.6 million included:
- $6 million from an anonymous donor to support The Fuqua Society of Fellows Endowment Fund
- $1.25 million from Maxcor Foundation, Inc. to support COLE
- $1 million from J.B.(GHON'73) and Dorothy Fuqua to establish The J.B. Fuqua Professorship of Business Endowment Fund
- $1 million from James L. Vincent (E'61) to establish The James L. Vincent Professorship in Leadership Endowment Fund
- $667,000 from Gerald L. (T'73) and Agnes Hassell to establish The Spencer R. Hassell Associate Professorship Endowment Fund
- $667,000 from Robert Derek Bandeen (B'85) to establish The Robert A. Bandeen Associate Professorship Fund, the largest-ever alumni gift
- $521,000 from General Motors Corporation for curriculum development and research pertaining to the hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle project
- $500,000 from Pete (T'64) and Ginny Nicholas (W'64) to support COLE
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