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Since the Faculty-in-Residence Program is targeted at first-year students and has been designed with the purpose of offering a distinctive benefit to students in their first and most formative year at Duke, we believe that it is essential for faculty participants to operate within the context of a clear and consistent set of expectations in order to give the program a coherent focus and a clear institutional profile. Accordingly, we have identified the following eight areas of activity as constituting a core set of requirements for program participants:
- Serving as a Pre-Major Advisor.
- Serving as a model, mentor, and resource with regard to informal house programming, particularly that kind of valuable cultural and academic programming to which inexperienced first-year students might not initially accord a high priority.
- Serving as a catalyst for the involvement of other faculty members in house activities, as well as working to bring house members into significant contact with individuals and groups in the wider Durham community.
- Helping to coordinate other faculty programs in the residential unit, such as the Faculty Associates Program.
- Maintaining a working relationship with the Student Affairs staff in the residential unit as well as with the live-in Residence Coordinators.
- Fostering and encouraging early familiarity with the University ' s unique human and physical resources as well as with local attractions and opportunities beyond the walls of the University.
- Fostering habits of curiosity about and involvement in educational and cultural activities beyond the formal confines of the classroom and laboratory.
- Taking advantage of the opportunity to dine regularly with students in a variety of venues, and at least once a month intentionally using the dining experience as a vehicle that brings together house members, faculty or other guests, and yourself in a more structured interaction or conversation.