Highlights:

Duke Divinity School topped $102 million at the close of the Campaign for Duke, surpassing the goal of $85 million in giving.

The beautiful Gothic 45,000-square-foot building addition stayed on schedule with completion set for March 2005.

Special programs or achievements:

The school launched a dual-degree master of divinity/master of social work program with the UNC School of Social Work.

Admissions inquiries exceeded 3,700 and applications exceeded 600, both record numbers.

Sustaining Pastoral Excellence, a national program in pastoral leadership funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and coordinated by the divinity school, grew to include more than 60 individual projects with a budget exceeding $80 million.

Divinity students formed Students Advocating Latino/a Theologies in response to the growing presence of Hispanics in the U.S. and North Carolina; Duke Divinity School hosted a national summit on Hispanic pastoral leadership sponsored by Pulpit & Pew, a school research project.

Faith & Fiction: A Festival of Carolina Authors, sponsored by the Center for Theological Writing, brought together Clyde Edgerton, Randall Kenan, Haven Kimmell and Robert Morgan in February 2004.

Awards and recognition:

Teresa Berger, professor of ecumenical theology, received the 2003 Herberg-Haag Prize "For Freedom in the Church."

J. Kameron Carter, assistant professor in theology and black church studies, received awards from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Louisville Institute and the ATS Sabbatical Grants Program.

Amy Laura Hall, assistant professor of theological ethics, was named a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology.

Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Joel Marcus, professor of New Testament and Christian origins, was awarded a fellowship at the National Humanities Center.

Faculty and staff appointments:

• Bishop Kenneth Carder, formerly a United Methodist Bishop from Mississippi, was named director of Center for Excellence in Ministry and professor of the practice of pastoral formation.
• Richard Payne, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York, was named Colliflower Director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life.
• Allen Verhey, from Hope College in Michigan, was named professor of Christian ethics.

School statistics:

Approximately 550 students from 32 states and several foreign countries study in four graduate professional degree programs. Fifty-five percent are United Methodist, 20 percent are Baptist, and more than 30 other denominations are represented. Forty-five percent of students are female; 55 percent are male.

Major gifts:

Gifts to Duke Divinity School totaled more than $13 million during the 2003-04 fiscal year.