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Mac McCorkle was recently named the director of POLIS: Center for Politics, which sponsors Duke Votes. The Chronicle spoke to him about his perspective on the 2020 election in North Carolina.
By May, colleges and universities had developed a spectrum of plans for holding a fall semester amid a pandemic. Now, as other schools in the Triangle move online, Duke is still hosting classes on-campus while other schools across the country try to do the same.
Congressional candidate Mondaire Jones spoke on progressive policies, youth activism and more at a Thursday event.
On Aug. 17, as Duke students everywhere were just rolling out of bed, Durham public school students were logging in to their first online class of the school year.
The coronavirus has generated numerous challenges for the upcoming November election, among them the recruitment of poll workers.
As yet another first in a year full of unprecedented events, Jill Karofsky, Trinity ‘88 and newly elected Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, was sworn in in a way that was anything but conventional.
Rice spoke to a virtual audience about the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing movements for racial justice.
North Carolina State University announced Thursday—ten days after their semester began—that undergraduate classes will move online starting Monday, Aug. 24.
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.
