Board of Trustees to meet this weekend
The Board of Trustees will meet on campus this weekend for the first time since May and address the continuing challenges presented by the University’s financial situation.
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The Board of Trustees will meet on campus this weekend for the first time since May and address the continuing challenges presented by the University’s financial situation.
Saber Benson, a 26-year-old employee of The Loop, has died from injuries he sustained when his moped crashed on campus Saturday night.
Duke Police has developed a composite sketch of the suspect in the Sept. 22 armed robbery on Campus Drive.
The Duke University Police Department released the latest crime statistics in its annual Clery Security Report, which shows that although reports of some serious crimes were down, drinking and drug violations were up in the 2008 calendar year.
The six car break-ins that occurred across three campus parking lots Sept. 19 are thought to be linked to a string of break-ins March 6, said Gloria Graham, assistant chief of the Duke University Police Department.
Editor's note: The following first-person piece contains graphic language.
Six cars were broken into across three campus lots Saturday evening, said Assistant Chief Gloria Graham of the Duke University Police Department.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof once bought two women from a Cambodian brothel. One went on to start a family, the other returned to the brothel, but both may have inspired students to support women’s rights.
Duke’s payroll will likely become slimmer still, after an announcement Thursday that the University will offer early retirement incentives to some salaried employees.
This summer, the Institutional Review Board approved the Dean of Undergraduate Education’s Socioeconomic Diversity Initiative, which will attempt to assess and compare the Duke experiences of students who do and do not receive financial aid.
Students voting in the Fall 2009 Duke Student Government Senate elections next Monday will also be electing a student to a new position-special secretary to the Young Trustee.
David Dyson works long hours. A Duke University Police Officer for five years, Dyson works 12-hour shifts on a rotating schedule that ensures days, nights and weekends are all covered.
Five incidents of "forcible sexual offenses" were reported on campus in 2007, according to the most-recent Clery Campus Security Report. But Duke officials and the National Institute of Justice suggest the real number of offenses may be much higher.
As freshmen converged on East Campus with their brand new sheets, lamps and clothes, President Richard Brodhead got something new, too.
Cathy Davidson, Ruth F. Devarney Professor of English, wrote a blog post July 26 on the Web site she helped found, Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. But "How to Crowdsource Grading," the post Davidson thought no one would find interesting, has sparked several articles in national publications and a heated, largely virtual, debate about grading systems.
The numbers are in and 295 bi-weekly paid employees have accepted the University's early retirement incentive, Vice President for Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh said.
The University has pledged $770,000 across all its schools to veterans as part of the Department of Veterans Affairs Yellow Ribbon Program. But only $15,000 will go to eligible undergraduate veterans-the bulk of the funds will go to those seeking graduate degrees.
University officials have announced that Duke will offer a cash incentive to salary employees as it tries to reduce its human resources expenses even more.
Andrew Holmberg, Trinity '09, was an economics and public policy double major. He had an internship at Dutko Worldwide, a lobbying firm that advises public and private sector organizations. He went through the on-campus recruitment process and spent eight weekends of his senior year flying from coast to coast for more than 100 interviews with companies from Google to accounting firms. But Holmberg-who may have been the ideal candidate for a spot on Wall Street only a year ago-never did land a job in the private financial sector.