DURHAM, N.C. -– The Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics (COLE) at Duke University announced funding of a university chair in honor of Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski at the Coach K & Fuqua School of Business Conference on Leadership on October 18.

The Coach K University Professorship in Leadership will be awarded to one of the top professors in the world on leadership. As a university chair, the faculty member who holds the position will have responsibilities at Fuqua but also have interdisciplinary responsibilities across campus.

“Funding the university chair reinforces COLE’s goal of promoting excellence in research and teaching concerning the practice and effects of leadership,” said Sim Sitkin, faculty director of COLE.

This is the third professorship raised within COLE. The other chairs are the George C. Lamb University Professorship in Ethics and the James L. Vincent Professorship in Leadership.

The $2 million Coach K effort brings the total raised for COLE to $7.725 million secured in just over one year since the center was established.

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The Fuqua/Coach K Center of Leadership & Ethics (COLE) was established by the Fuqua School of Business (in collaboration with the Duke University Athletics and Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke) to advance leadership and ethics through research and education. COLE strives to influence the way students, academics, corporations, governments and non-profits think about and practice business leadership and ethics.

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October 22, 2004

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