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President Vincent Price gave his annual address to Duke faculty at Academic Council’s March meeting, speaking about successes the University has seen over the past year and his vision for its future.
Duke administrators sent an email Monday to doctoral students and faculty acknowledging the intent of the Duke Graduate Students Union’s to hold an election with the National Labor Relations Board.
Trinity College of Arts and Science’s Curriculum Development Committee presented a first look at the structure and values of its new undergraduate curriculum to the Arts & Sciences Council at its Thursday meeting.
Ingrid Daubechies, a Duke mathematics professor dubbed the “Godmother of the Digital Image,” has received one of the highest honors in the field of mathematics.
Academic Council had a panel discussion about Duke’s Climate Commitment and approved a new tenure track pathway for faculty in the creative arts in its February meeting.
Some Duke faculty members are worried that academic dishonesty will become a more common occurrence with the emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a service that allows users to ask a highly-trained artificial intelligence model questions and receive fairly robust responses.
Academic Council heard from Suzanne Barbour, dean of the Graduate School, and considered a proposal to change the required academic credentials for tenure-track faculty in Duke’s visual and performing arts departments in its Thursday meeting.
Arts & Sciences Council approved a proposal for alternative pathways through the foreign language requirement for students with disabilities, and heard a proposal for a new minor in music during its first meeting of the spring semester.
Change is abound within the Duke administration. From the University side to Duke Health leadership, there have been a handful of personnel changes in the last year.
Duke admitted 800 students to the Class of 2027 through its Early Decision application cycle, according to Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag.
The Arts & Sciences Council heard a proposal to alter the foreign language requirement for students with disabilities that prevent them from taking language classes on Thursday. It also heard from the Trinity College Office of Technology Services regarding Duke’s shift to Canvas from Sakai.
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The Duke University School of Law will no longer participate in the U.S. News and World Report’s Best Law Schools ranking.
Democrat Cheri Beasley has conceded to Republican Rep. Ted Budd in the U.S. Senate race for North Carolina.
President Vincent Price addressed the Arts & Sciences Council about Duke in a moment of transition during its Thursday meeting, echoing his sentiments from an Academic Council meeting in March.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday for two cases against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that will decide the future of race-based affirmative action in higher education.
Academic Council addressed the announcement that Provost Sally Kornbluth had been elected president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in its Thursday meeting.
Although masks are no longer required in classrooms, some professors are still requiring students to wear them, citing health risks due to their age, while others are taking a middle ground.
Academic Council heard an update about Duke’s COVID-19 protocols in its Thursday meeting, the first of the academic year.
Duke ranked No. 10 in the 2022-2023 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s Best National University rankings. It fell one place from last year’s ranking of No. 9.