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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

Duke Compact detailed, will be emailed to community Tuesday

By Carter Forinash | 4 days ago

As the fall semester begins amid the coronavirus pandemic, members of the Duke community will have to agree to the Duke Compact, the text of which is included in a Monday evening news release. The agreement includes commitments to wear a mask in public and participate in COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and self-reporting of symptoms. 

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

The Chronicle to print one day a week in upcoming year

By Carter Forinash | 5 days ago

The Chronicle will print one day per week starting this academic year. The decision to move away from printing twice weekly—as The Chronicle has done since the 2018-19 academic year—is part of the newspaper’s focus on digital offerings as it enters its 116th volume.

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

Juniors and seniors scramble to make fall plans after Duke changes course on reopening

By Leah Boyd | 6 days ago

After Duke walked back reopening plans, some upperclassmen were left with mere weeks to compete with other students for an apartment, sign a lease, pack up their belongings and move—all during a pandemic. 

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

Duke eliminates tuition increase, cuts some fees

By Rose Wong | 6 days ago

President Price announced Saturday that the Duke will rescind its planned 3.9% tuition increase from last year. 

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

Duke students voluntarily dismiss class action lawsuits to recover spring semester costs

By Stefanie Pousoulides | July 31, 2020

While Duke students are currently petitioning for the reduction of fall 2020 tuition and housing, two class action lawsuits for the repayment of spring 2020 costs have been voluntarily dismissed.

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

Testing, tracing, quarantine: How Duke will fight the coronavirus on campus this fall

By Mona Tong | July 29, 2020

From daily symptom monitoring to isolation procedures, Duke is implementing testing, tracing and quarantine to combat the spread of the coronavirus on campus this fall. 

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

Here’s how to apply for Fall housing as a junior or senior, plus more housing information

By Maria Morrison | July 28, 2020

Juniors and seniors have until Friday, July 31 to apply to live on campus for the Fall semester, after Duke announced Sunday that it was scaling back its reopening plans. There are limited housing spaces available, according to the Keep Learning website, and requests for housing will be approved for those students whose “academic progress and personal well being significantly depend on being in Duke-provided housing.” 

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NEWS  |  LOCAL NATIONAL

ICE bars newly enrolled international students who take all online classes from entering US

By Hannah Miao | July 28, 2020

New U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guidance bars newly enrolled international students from entering the United States for the Fall semester if they take only online classes. 

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

With bookbagging opening Monday, here's how registration will work for the Fall semester

By Sibani Ram | July 27, 2020

As Duke prepares for a year unlike any before, undergraduates still have to register for Fall classes before the semester starts Aug. 17. 

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

[UPDATED] Duke limits Fall housing to first-years and sophomores, scaling back reopening plans

By Matthew Griffin and Carter Forinash | July 26, 2020

Duke is limiting on-campus Fall housing to first-years, sophomores and students with special circumstances in a step back from its original reopening plan.

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

Duke adds Durham property to hotel collection

By Carter Forinash and Preetha Ramachandran | July 20, 2020

Duke has purchased the Cambria Hotel Durham, a recently renovated 148-room, two-building hotel surrounded by the Duke University Medical Center, according to the Triangle Business Journal. Duke renamed the hotel to The Lodge at Duke Medical Center, and it joins the JB Duke Hotel and the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club as Duke-owned lodging. 

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NEWS  |  HEALTH SCIENCE

Duke professors work to fight COVID-19 in local Latinx community

By Sibani Ram | July 16, 2020

Duke professors are studying and identifying ways to mitigate the disproportionate spread of COVID-19 in Durham’s Latinx community. 

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

Student group calls for disbanding of DUPD, other actions by Duke

By Nadia Bey | July 15, 2020

The Duke Black Coalition Against Policing's demands propose a three-part approach for Duke to sever “its ties to all systems predicated on policing and imprisonment,” including greater transparency, divestment from any ties to the “military and prison-industrial complex” and a plan to abolish the Duke University Police Department.

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NEWS  |  LOCAL NATIONAL

DHS and ICE rescind new visa rules for international students taking online classes

By Maria Morrison | July 14, 2020

Federal judge Allison D. Burroughs announced that they would rescind the policy in a Tuesday hearing regarding a lawsuit brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology against the ruling, The Harvard Crimson reported.

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

Duke signs amicus brief supporting lawsuit against new ICE visa rules

By Leah Boyd | July 13, 2020

The brief, filed Sunday, also features signatures from universities such as Stanford, Vanderbilt and the seven Ivy Leagues other than Harvard. It notes that these institutions’ international students “have helped make American higher education the envy of the world.”

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

TikTok, juggling, podcasting: Students get creative in quarantine

By Preetha Ramachandran | July 13, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on and stay-at-home orders continue, some students have found creative ways to make use of their time at home, from recording a podcast to reaching internet fame.

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NEWS  |  UNIVERSITY

New ICE policy “particularly insidious and cruel,” say international students, forced to choose between visas and health

By Carter Forinash and Mona Tong | July 10, 2020

International students, already dealing with travel restrictions and an unusual upcoming semester amid a pandemic, now face the prospect of losing their visa status and ability to stay in the country if they don’t take in-person classes.