Final Report
“Duke medicine, undergraduate and graduate education, professional
schools, libraries, and sports are stronger than they were eight
years ago.”
The Campaign for Duke is a success. An effort
like ours is most often measured in dollars, and by that standard
we succeeded well beyond our most outrageous ambitions. But the
best metric is what is accomplished for people—students, faculty,
researchers, librarians, physicians, and the many others who make
Duke such a special place. By that measure too we have succeeded.
Duke medicine, undergraduate and graduate education, professional
schools, libraries, and sports are stronger than they were eight
years ago: There are more resources for student aid and teaching.
Patient care is a model. There are new and thoughtfully renovated
spaces on East and West Campuses, as well as at the Medical Center,
and new ones are underway. Innovative academic programs are part
of every school’s curriculum. New and important research that
expands knowledge and changes lives goes on across disciplines.
Students have programs and places to enrich their experience in
and out of the classroom, and they—as well as others at Duke—reach
out to the local community, the state, the nation, and the world
as never before.
In fact, Duke University’s good works are known as never
before, in its town and state as well as in the United States and
throughout the world.
The Campaign for Duke helped make all of that and more possible.
Without the care, concern, hard work—and real grit—of
thousands of volunteers led by our Campaign Steering Committee,
hundreds of thousands of donors, and a dedicated staff led by our
superb president and senior vice president, the campaign could never
have succeeded.
We are very proud to be part of a global Duke community that is
closer than ever before and an effort that has accomplished so much
for so many—and will continue to do so. We thank all of you
who made it possible.
Ginny and Pete Nicholas
co-chairs
The Campaign for Duke
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