Policy change allows third-semester study away without declaring major
By Sasha Zients | January 15, 2014Students in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences no longer have to declare a major before studying away in their third semester.
Students in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences no longer have to declare a major before studying away in their third semester.
Duke students and administration remain confident about the academic performance of the University's athletes in light of the recent controversy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
To show their support for global academic freedom Duke has come out in opposition to a boycott of Israeli universities.
If passed, a new proposal will increase the amount of Duke courses students must take to graduate.
Duke’s number of early applicants has more than doubled in the past decade. Because the overall class size has stayed at about 1,705, early admits now make up a greater proportion of each incoming...
This year’s Winter Forum, titled Rethink Education: The Innovation Challenge, featured speeches from two former North Carolina governors.
Administrators have organized many joint degree programs across graduate schools, but academic calendars—including orientations, breaks and exams—remain uncoordinated.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded President Richard Brodhead with the 2013 Academic Leadership Award.
Even as online courses move forward at Duke, some faculty members still have misgivings.
Visiting scholar Dr. Muhammad Pate, Fuqua '06 and the former Nigerian Minister of State for Heath will teach and mentor at the Duke Global Health Institute.
The hardest job on campus: A history of Duke's top academic position
Hoping to fit in more time for his love of bird watching and return to his love of teaching, Jim Siedow announced his decision not to seek another reappointment as vice provost of research.
The opening semester of Bass Connections has been largely successful, though the program's unique format has posed a few challenges for the its first participants.
Duke Student Government representatives are working to increase Duke engagement with Durham affairs.
Senior Daniel Strunk and Sanette Tanaka, Trinity '12, have been awarded the George J. Mitchell Scholarship.
Faculty expressed concerns about the recent proliferation of proposals for new master's degree programs at the Academic Council meeting Thursday.
The National Survey for Student Engagement published its newest findings last week, with participation from 568 colleges and universities across the country—Duke and many of its peer institutions,...
The forum was a response to an April meeting of the Arts and Sciences Council that voted against a motion to adopt online courses for credit.
College tuition is increasing more slowly now than it has in decades—but because of cutbacks in grants and aid, the net price of college education is not holding steady.
The 17 Duke Kunshan University courses fall under the categories of physical and natural sciences, global health, social sciences and humanities.