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“There’s just similar frustration. I don’t think RAs are special students. We share the same concerns as the rest of the student body.”
“That’s what SFK does. She makes the ordinary—not that [Shooters II Saloon] is ordinary—extraordinary. She makes the sidewalk a red carpet. She wears a ballgown to the frat party, and I did that three times.”
Faculty on the Council were skeptical that the new certificate was not all too different from pursuing the public policy major with a focus on health policy, or independently pursuing classes and opportunities related to health policy.
Effective July 1, the minimum wage for general student job postings will increase to $15 per hour, a jump from the $10.50 baseline.
The purpose of the complaint was to call on North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein to investigate potential legal violations associated with Duke’s fossil fuel investments.
Senators were allowed to contest any funding cuts made before the meeting, but they had to balance the budget while doing so.
All students enrolled in summer session are required to be vaccinated or have an approved medical or religious exemption, and they must have a negative PCR test 72 hours prior to their arrival on campus.
Duke will bestow honorary degrees to four recipients at the Class of 2022's commencement ceremony in May, a list that includes a rocket scientist, an economist, a prominent biochemist and an influential surgeon.
The union will remain certified unless the NLRB issues a stay—during which election proceedings will be halted—or the NLRB accepts the University’s appeal.
The Board of Trustees will consider their nominations May 6
Barra is the first woman to lead a major auto company. She received an honorary degree from Duke in 2018 and is a member of the University’s Board of Trustees.
Ashby has been dean of Trinity since 2015. During her tenure, she led initiatives that helped Trinity more deeply invest in faculty recruitment and development, philanthropy and student engagement.
Titled “Narrating Resistance & Agency: Shifting the Discourse on Palestine,” the series featured Dana Alhasan, a local community organizer; Alaa Hammouda, a peace fellow at the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a journalist and producer; and writer Mohammed El-Kurd.
This represents a slight increase from the Class of 2025’s record-low 4.3% acceptance rate for Regular Decision applicants, but is lower than the Class of 2024’s six percent.
If Duke wins their Final Four game against North Carolina Saturday evening, then the benches will be brought back out Monday morning.
This was almost $100,000 over the $400,000.00 available in the fund.
“One of the amazing things about Duke is that there are so many brilliant people working in so many areas,” Wright said. “I know everything that's going on in biology, but this is a chance to lift my head up and look around and see a lot more of the University. That's really exciting.”
Along with those who have applied to study abroad tentatively taking up rooms, a secondary cause of the waitlists was an excess number of rising seniors who have applied to live on campus.
Data for the rankings came from statistical surveys of more than 2,150 programs and reputation surveys sent to more than 23,200 academics and professionals.
“I think [the AADS] program will continue to grow exponentially. In terms of the number of courses, faculty, hopefully heading towards a major departmentalization—I mean, those are the long term goals. And to be at an elite institution like Duke, and to have a minor degree program in the [United States] South is an incredible achievement."