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Alpha Epsilon Pi has disaffiliated from Duke’s Interfraternity Council, AEPi President Jacob Turobiner wrote in a message to The Chronicle, becoming the eighth chapter to officially do so.
Duke’s positive COVID-19 tests fell this week for the third week in a row, to numbers resembling the fall semester, and Duke’s spokesperson said Tuesday that the number of students in University quarantine housing has fallen significantly.
Ravi Bellamkonda, Vinik dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, is leaving Duke in June to become Provost and executive vice president at Emory University, Duke announced Tuesday.
Duke reported its second COVID-19 cluster of the semester on Monday among five graduate students who attended a birthday party.
Duke has delayed registration for fall 2021 courses to July to have more time to plan for the fall semester, with the number of in-person classes still uncertain.
The first campus snowfall of the semester came on Wednesday, bringing a communal experience for students who are once again adjusting to socially distanced life at Duke.
Duke has suspended global and domestic undergraduate travel for Summer 2021 but will have a mix of in-person and remote classes for Summer Sessions I and II, administrators wrote in a Thursday email to undergraduates.
Duke Athletics projects a revenue loss of at least $36 million due to the pandemic and has put financial measures in place to help make up for the loss, the department’s chief financial officer told the Academic Council on Thursday.
Student Affairs is undergoing changes in leadership and structure, particularly within Housing and Residence Life, with the former head of HRL now working on pandemic planning.
The fall semester is drawing to a close, and Duke has avoided the fate of schools that have had to move classes online to control COVID-19 outbreaks. Now students will await, and administrators will prepare for, another semester during a pandemic.
Vincent Price took office in 2017 as Duke’s 10th president. Less than three years into his tenure, it fell to him to lead the University through a global pandemic. Under Price’s leadership, the school moved classes online in the spring and brought students back this fall, all while navigating COVID-19’s economic fallout and launching expansive new anti-racism initiatives.
When he first heard that former Vice President Joe Biden had been elected president, senior Rahul Krishnaswamy, Duke Students for Biden co-chair, said it was like a “transformation.”
With the presidential election balanced on a knife edge as ballots are counted in key states, Duke students from around the world are following developments in the race.
Election Day is here, and Duke students have made their plans to watch the results—conclusive or not—come in.
Duke has renamed East Campus’ Jarvis dorm to its original name of West Residence Hall, President Vincent Price wrote in a Thursday message to the community.
Duke is launching a multi-pronged effort to combat racism at the University and expanding existing initiatives, including $16 million in new grant funding from The Duke Endowment.
Early voting kicks off Thursday in North Carolina, and The Chronicle has pulled together information on the Durham County races you’ll find on your ballot.
Duke is asking selective organizations—including fraternities, sororities and non-Greek selective living groups—to pause planning for recruitment processes until further notice, Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president for student affairs, and Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education, wrote in a Thursday email to undergraduates.
Four campus organizations have been placed on suspension since Aug. 7, and six individual students have received “interim suspensions for “flagrant violations of COVID policy expectations and the Duke Compact pending an administrative hearing, including for hosting gatherings and failing to follow quarantine and isolation protocols to protect fellow students,” Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president for student affairs, and Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education, wrote in a Friday email to undergraduates.
The Board of Trustees heard the latest on Duke’s anti-racism efforts and COVID-19 response at their quarterly meeting Friday and Saturday.
