‘Depressing and boring, but manageable:’ What life is like for the 437 Duke students on campus
By Maya Miller | March 25, 2020Welcome to Ghost Town—also known as Duke University.
Welcome to Ghost Town—also known as Duke University.
The Chronicle wants to know how the coronavirus outbreak has touched your life, both personally and professionally.
For Duke’s current merit scholarship finalists and prospective incoming first-years, the COVID-19 pandemic has heavily shaken up some planning and logistics.
With students off campus for the remainder of the semester and online classes starting up, it’s fair to wonder what the rest of the semester will look like.
Hessel defeated junior Valeria Silombria 963 votes to 870.
The Chronicle compiled the questions that you asked and addressed them to the best of our ability below.
As the spread of COVID-19 led Duke to move all undergraduate, graduate and professional classes to online or remote learning until further notice, faculty were charged with a sudden shift to remote or virtual teaching. Duke Learning Innovation’s team stepped in to help.
Duke’s spokesperson offered more specifics to The Chronicle about the plan, explaining that the qualifications for furlough pay for dining contract workers were more expansive.
More than 1,000 requests from 861 students were submitted to HRL for the return of their essential items they left on campus, said Joe Gonzalez, assistant vice president of student affairs and dean for residential life.
One day after undergraduate classes moved to a default satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading option, some graduate and professional courses are following suit.
Due to travel restrictions, four DukeEngage programs have already been canceled.
President Vincent Price announced that Duke has decided to postpone commencement for the Class of 2020, but he is committed to holding an in-person commencement celebration on campus at some point.
Hotel employees and full-time food service workers, not just Duke faculty and staff, will keep their current pay for the time being.
Spring semester undergraduate classes will now be automatically graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory scale, wrote Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education, in an email to The Chronicle Wednesday morning.
After weeks of planning, students had to scrap their international itineraries for something a little less exciting.
Junior Michael Castro said that for many Duke students, moving classes online poses challenges that may threaten their academic success this semester, so he created a petition on Change.org.
Duke faculty and staff have been advised to move all in-person meetings to remote conferences, President Vincent Price wrote in an email to the Duke community Monday afternoon.
As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the globe, many students want to know what qualifies them to remain on campus. As Duke aims to sizably reduce the number of people on campus to contain the outbreak, many students are being told to leave.
While much of campus has closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the show must go on.
Days after Duke canceled in-person classes and restricted access to campus, students have come together to help each other navigate lives altered by the coronavirus.