Endowment dips to $8.5 billion in ‘extraordinarily volatile’ investment year
Duke’s endowment fell slightly after reaching a record high last year, in a year that saw stock market volatility due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Duke’s endowment fell slightly after reaching a record high last year, in a year that saw stock market volatility due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A building at the heart of West Campus is now named for Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, one of the first five Black undergraduates at Duke and a distinguished academic.
As a unique semester moves forward, fewer students are along for the ride than last year.
There were six new positive coronavirus tests among students between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4, out of 6,551 total, according to data released Monday on the University’s COVID-19 testing tracker.
West Campus, 8:40 a.m.
Undergraduates will participate in COVID-19 pool testing starting next week, with the process then expanded to include other community members, Duke announced Thursday.
Update: This story was updated at 9:38 p.m. Wednesday with information about one new student-athlete testing positive.
Students began to move in last week for a semester like no other.
On March 10, Liv McKinney was on a beach in the Bahamas. It was the Tuesday of spring break, and McKinney, then a senior and the Duke Student Government president, was on vacation. She expected things to slow down after the break as she began to hand things off to her successor.
This will be a year like no other. First-years and sophomores are getting ready to return to a changed campus, while many juniors and seniors are bracing themselves for a semester of online learning. Administrators are trying to balance Duke’s mission of higher education with the demands of a global pandemic.
Update: This story was updated at 6:24 p.m. Sunday to include information from President Vincent Price’s message to the Duke community.
Duke plans to take legal action in support of a lawsuit challenging new restrictions on educational visas, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, told The Chronicle Wednesday.
Duke will be test-optional for students applying to the first-year undergraduate class during the 2020-21 admissions cycle, Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, wrote in a Wednesday announcement.
Duke has secured space in hotels and apartment buildings to house students in the fall, and changes are coming to on-campus living that include a lack of selective living group housing.
After a national search, John Blackshear will be Duke’s next dean of students and associate vice president of student affairs, wrote Mary Pat McMahon, vice president and vice provost for student affairs, in a Thursday email to students.
Protesters gathered in Durham Saturday, joining the tide of demonstrations that has washed over the United States in recent days after the death of George Floyd.
When Duke announced classes were moving online, I knew it meant an end to impassioned discussions over meals at the Brodhead Center, cheering on the basketball team at watch parties and late nights in The Chronicle’s office at 301 Flowers. But as a student journalist, I knew the most important part of my time at Duke had just begun.
Update: This story was updated at 9:23 p.m. Friday with information from President Vincent Price and Provost Sally Kornbluth’s email to faculty, including that students will have to re-register for Fall courses and that faculty will not be required to teach on campus if they have concerns about health and safety.
As Duke leadership responds to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, President Vincent Price has suspended the search for a new executive vice president for up to six months.
The coronavirus pandemic loomed large over the first-ever online meeting of the Board of Trustees.