Community celebrates faculty unionization Monday
(03/22/16 6:20am)
Faculty, students and Durham community members gathered Monday evening to celebrate faculty unionization.
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Faculty, students and Durham community members gathered Monday evening to celebrate faculty unionization.
Shelvia Underwood, the contract parking employee who alleged that Executive Vice President Tallman Trask used a racial slur after hitting her with his car, has filed a lawsuit against Trask and Duke.
Seyward Darby, Trinity ’07, served as editor of the 101st volume of The Chronicle in 2005-06, when three Duke lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a stripper at a party held by members of the team. Darby now works as an editor for Foreign Policy. Now 10 years since the March 13 party, Darby answered questions via email and reflected on coverage of the case as well as the atmosphere on campus when the story broke.
Our Storify on the protest held by students and Duke community members against alleged mistreatment of Parking and Transportation Services employees:
Students and Duke community members gathered Tuesday to demand the resignation of Executive Vice President Tallman Trask and protest the mistreatment of employees within Duke’s Parking and Transportation Services department.
This story is part two in a two-part investigative series. Part one, which ran Monday, examines an August 2014 incident in which Executive Vice President Tallman Trask hit a contract parking employee, Shelvia Underwood, with his car and allegedly used a racial slur as he drove off. Part one can be read here.
This story is part one in a two-part investigative series. The second part will examine the culture in the Parking and Transportation Services Department and will be published later this week.
Following Saturday's Board of Trustees meeting, in which a 3.8 percent increase in undergraduate tuition was approved, The Chronicle's Rachel Chason and Amrith Ramkumar spoke with President Richard Brodhead and David Rubenstein, Trinity '70 and chair of the Board of Trustees, after the meeting about the tuition increase, other meeting notes and the University's long-term goals.
Duke's 2016-17 tuition will increase 3.8 percent to $49,575.
The Arts and Sciences Council received an update from the “Imagining the Duke Curriculum” committee about integrating faculty feedback into the new proposed curriculum at its meeting Thursday.
Mi Gente, Duke’s undergraduate Latino/a organization, announced Sunday that it will end its collaboration with the Office of Admissions in planning Latino Student Recruitment Weekend.
A new section at the Career and Summer Opportunities Fair Thursday will attract students interested in the arts and media.
A new five-year, $500,000 grant to support two professorships for female faculty will further the University’s goal of attracting women to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Senior Jay Ruckelshaus attended Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address as the guest of Rep. Susan Brooks, a congresswoman from Indiana’s fifth district.
Early decision applicants will make up 48 percent of Duke's Class of 2020—the same proportion of students admitted through the early decision process as last year.
No charges will be filed in the sexual assault case involving Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
Tom Katsouleas, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, will leave his position at Duke to become executive vice president and provost at the University of Virginia.
Ongoing efforts to improve interdisciplinarity and diversity mark Laurie Patton’s four-year tenure as dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.
Duke’s Class of 2019 may be the largest in the University’s history.
Gabriel Lopez, professor of biomedical engineering, will leave Duke this year after being selected as the next vice president for research at the University of New Mexico.