Newly elected Academic Council Chair Kerry Haynie looks ahead at two-year term
(04/23/19 7:10am)
With a new academic year coming up, there will be a new chair of the Academic Council—Kerry Haynie.
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With a new academic year coming up, there will be a new chair of the Academic Council—Kerry Haynie.
Karen "Kerry" Abrams became the 15th dean of Duke Law School July 1. Abrams, the new James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke dean of the School of Law, comes to Duke after serving as vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of law at the University of Virginia. The Chronicle's Maram Elnagheeb recently spoke with Abrams to discuss her plans for her first year.
On July 1, Imam Joshua Salaam started his tenure as Duke's new Muslim chaplain. Salaam is a hip-hop artist and U.S. Air Force veteran. The Chronicle spoke with Salaam to discuss his experience teaching Muslim youth and how he seeks to strengthen the Muslim community at Duke. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
For most of its time, Duke University has been a liberal school. The school is located in the heart of the research triangle, which is known as the liberal part of North Carolina. When Duke students first arrive to campus, they come into orientation week partaking in the Duke It Out: Intersectionality in Action session.
When looking at communities of color, there are often harsh stigmas against mental health. New research has shown that students of color are much less likely to ask for help when they’re stressed or coping with other mental health concerns than white students. Two organizations, The Jed Foundation, which works with colleges on suicide prevention, and the Steve Fund, which works to enhance the emotional well-being of young people of color, released data from a Harris Poll taken in 2015. The survey was conducted with 1,502 students aged 17 to 20, and the results showed that black and Hispanic students were more likely to feel overwhelmed in college, but they are also more likely than white students to keep their mental health concerns to themselves.
Like any college freshman, I had a hard time adapting to college. Although I knew college was going to be much different than high school, I was taken by surprise by the difficulty of the transition. I was more emotional the first semester of college than I had been in my last two years of high school. I didn’t realize until winter break of freshman year that I took my home for granted. Besides the comfort and familiarity that my home provided, my home gave me a strong sense of my identity, which I realized had become completely dependent on my familiarity with my surroundings.. I came to this realization when I saw my sense of self dissolving at Duke.
With the divisiveness, fear and hopelessness brought by the election results also came news to lift spirits--news of a recent wave of women of color being elected to highly ranked political roles. One of these women is Ilhan Omar.
Over the past year, the nation has seen racial tensions rise. National news stories of black citizens being killed by cops have become more prominent, one such story occurring in Charlotte, a city that is a two-hour drive from Durham. With Duke University being an elite, well-respected institution, the question of how Duke uses its influence and power to respond to such a huge incident in its home state needs to be asked.
“Why does she stay?” is a question outsiders ask continuously regarding domestic violence. The situation may seem black and white to many. If someone in an abusive relationship, then the abused person should leave. However, the case of domestic violence is not as simple as some try to make it. The question “Why does she stay?” is part of the conversation of domestic violence, though there are many levels within it, but there’s another side: why does a man abuse a woman he claims to love?