Durham Tech hosts review

DURHAM -- Durham Technical Community College will host a site review for initial accreditation of its Associate Degree Nursing program.

The public is invited to meet the visiting team and share comments about the program today from 1 to 2 p.m. The meeting will be held in the multipurpose room of the Wynn Student Services Center on Durham Tech's main campus.

Written comments are also welcome and should be submitted directly to Sharon Tanner, executive director, the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission at 3343 Peachtree Road, NE, Suite 500, Atlanta, Ga. 30326 or e-mail sjtanner@nlnac.org.

Duke celebrates Founders' Day

DURHAM -- Duke University will honor outstanding faculty, employees, alumni, students and trustees at its annual Founders' Day Convocation at 4 p.m. Thursday in Duke Chapel.

Honorees at the ceremony, which is open to the public, include Joel Fleishman, who began his ongoing Duke career in 1971 as a law professor and director of what is now the Sanford School of Public Policy; Ernest Mario, a pharmaceutical industry executive and second-longest serving Duke University trustee; and Judy C. Woodruff, a veteran journalist and Duke alumna.

Keynotes set for Duke policy

DURHAM -- Richard Fisher, CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and neurosurgeon Gail Rosseau, chief of surgery at the Neurologic & Orthopedic Hospital of Chicago, will deliver keynote lectures during a weekend celebration of Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.

Prominent journalists Cokie Roberts of NPR and John Harwood of CNBC will engage the lecturers in conversation. Both events are free and open to the public. The talks are part of a series of events marking the Sanford School of Public Policy's inaugural year. The former institute became Duke's 10th school on July 1.

The Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture, "The New Global Economy: A Conversation with Richard Fisher," will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Friday in the Sanford building's Fleishman Commons. Fisher will give an insider's view of the global financial crisis and his assessment of the current conditions in a discussion with Roberts, NPR's senior news analyst. A question-and-answer session and reception will follow.

A second Sanford Distinguished Lecture, "Prospects in Public Health: A Conversation with Gail Rosseau," will take place at 10 a.m. on Saturday in the Fleishman Commons. Rosseau will join in a conversation about health care reform and policy with political journalist John Harwood of CNBC and The New York Times.

Other highlights include an address by Joel Fleishman, founding director of the Sanford School, at 4 p.m. on Thursday, during the annual Founders' Day Convocation in Duke Chapel. Fleishman will receive the University Medal for Distinguished Service. The photo exhibit, "Terry Sanford: An American Original," about the former North Carolina governor, U.S. senator and Duke University president, will be on display in the Sanford building from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday.

For more information, visit www.pubpol.duke.edu/events/inaugural.

Bolton to speak at Duke

DURHAM -- Diplomat and attorney John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Bush administration, will give a talk titled "Obama's New International Order," at Duke University Thursday.

The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 3041 at Duke Law School, and is free and open to the public.

Bolton gained a reputation for his outspoken views on reform in the United Nations and his opposition to U.S. membership in the International Criminal Court. He is currently a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Bolton's experience over three Republican administrations included senior positions with the Department of Justice and the U.S. Agency for International Development. As a senior State Department official in charge of arms control and international security, he helped craft the United States' post-9/11 foreign policy.

NCCU board gets 11 new members

DURHAM -- The North Carolina Central University School of Law Board of Visitors has 11 new board members.

Members of the board provide advice and counsel to the dean, and serve as goodwill ambassadors for the School of Law. Most of the new members are alumni of the school.

New members include state Sen. Ellie Kinnaird; Jay Chaudhuri, senior policy adviser for the N.C. Department of the Treasury; Dorothy Bernholz, director of Carolina Student Legal Services; Pamela Thorpe Young, chair of the N.C. Industrial Commission; Donna Douglas, attorney for the Office of Chief Counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Judge Herbert Richardson; Judge Wanda Bryant; and attorneys Leonard Jernigan, Mark Locklear, Joseph Williams and Geoffrey Simmons.

-- COMPILED BY NEIL OFFEN