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One week after starting in-person classes, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced classes will move online.
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Amid new policies, actions and court decisions, life has been uncertain for many undocumented students for the past few years.
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.
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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As Duke moves forward with preparations for students’ return to campus, the rate of new COVID-19 cases in North Carolina is rising.
Together, a team of Duke professors and staff, as well as local leaders, distributed around $100,000 in protective personal equipment to frontline doctors, essential departments and citizens, as well as providing food for those who were hungry or unemployed.
The North Carolina General Assembly passed a bill Thursday that protects colleges and universities from legal claims over coronavirus-related closures.
James Coleman is the John S. Bradway professor of the practice of law, co-director of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at Duke Law School and director of the Duke Center for Criminal Justice and Professional Responsibility. The Chronicle spoke to him about his perspective on the current state of the criminal justice system.
The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled 6-1 Friday that two death row inmates can present evidence that race tainted their trials, a significant decision for many prisoners on death row in the state.
When Scotty Shaw, Trinity ‘09, helped create HackDuke: Code for Good, a social impact hackathon at Duke, he had no idea he’d later work on a hackathon organized by the European Commission to combat the effects of a global pandemic.
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.
President Vincent Price addressed recent events in Minneapolis and condemned “fundamental and systematic disparities of justice” in the United States in a Saturday statement. He acknowledged the suffering of communities of color and affirmed that Duke will “continue the work of addressing generations of racism and injustice.”
Two Durham teens put up 100 copies of Sunday's New York Times front page near the East Campus bridge, representing the lives lost in the United States to the coronavirus.
After North Carolina entered the second phase of reopening May 22, Durham held back from lifting restrictions for a week and a half, after a recent spike in COVID-19 cases.
There is a lot of buzz around Duke’s plans for the Fall semester. But what are other colleges and universities planning?
Gov. Roy Cooper announced Thursday that North Carolina’s stay-at-home order would last through May 8.
Two Fuqua students raised over $4,000 for medical supplies to send to Wuhan, China, where the virus originated.
College students are turning to social media to fill their time, document this unprecedented experience and continue connecting with each other.
