Dukes is clearly pleased to once again be a part of a growing campus. In tones that others reserve for an encounter with baseball legends, he speaks of a recent breakfast with UCI's Nobel laureates F. Sherwood Rowland and Frederick Reines. 1995 encompassed both the glory of UCI's first Nobel Prizes and the difficulties surrounding the now-closed Center for Reproductive Health. We've had it with all of the negative publicity surrounding the fertility clinic issue. At the same time, many Roundtable members responded to his imperative with advertisements saluting UCI's achievements in the Times, the Orange County Business Journal and the Orange County Register.
Dukes considers such advocacy vital.
Getting that word out is how to attract the high quality of students we want at the university, and is how we'll continue to attract the quality of faculty we now have. It's all about creating an agenda that has both personal and professional implications for all of our members. Each spring, the Chief Executive Roundtable hosts a retreat at which faculty and administrators are invited to speak. It's also a time when cares and dignity are shed. Many black wigs were seen that night.