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Last year’s decrease in funding requests from student groups due to COVID-19 led to an accumulation of current Student Organization Finance Committee funds.
Only one-third of undergraduate students were living on campus Jan. 6, per Duke Today.
Over almost 20 years, the schools have overcharged 170,000 financial aid recipients by “at least hundreds of millions of dollars.”
The revamped course evaluations haven’t just benefited students—some professors are finding unprecedented quality and quantity in last semester’s feedback.
Students The Chronicle interviewed said that they initially believed the second message saying they were free to leave sequester was an error, and that they really had tested positive for COVID-19.
The Marshall Scholarship is a full-ride program covering the tuition and living expenses for American students pursuing graduate study in the United Kingdom.
While head line monitors announced Sunday that they would delay tenting until the start of in-person classes, the executive order reaffirmed the policies announced Dec. 23.
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"It has been an absolute honor to serve this great institution and support Duke’s core missions over the past 13 years,” Cavanaugh said in a press release.
"We are thinking today of Bryan’s family, as well as the Wannamaker and West Hall community members, classmates, advisors, faculty, and friends who knew Bryan personally," administrators wrote in an email to the Duke community.
With less than a week before spring 2022 classes start, Duke has again changed its plans for the start of spring semester due to the rapid spread of COVID-19. Here’s a summary of all the announcements made over the last few days.
Students who test positive for COVID-19 will now isolate in their dorm rooms, and the University will now reserve dedicated isolation space in The Lodge and Lancaster Commons to students living on campus with pre-existing medical conditions.
Those who cannot schedule a PCR test prior to arriving on campus can instead sequester through two rounds of entry and surveillance testing.
The email cited data showing that COVID-19 transmission generally occurs in the first two days prior to onset of symptoms and the two to three days after.
Duke will send additional information about other concerns—such as students who have longer travel journeys back to Duke, recently had COVID-19 or are having trouble scheduling tests—before this weekend.
Faculty and staff must receive and show documentation of their completed vaccination by 10 a.m. on Feb. 1, 2022, or within 28 days of their eligibility under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state guidelines.
Housing & Residence Life released more information about the spring 2022 move-in process and entry testing instructions in a Thursday morning email to students.
All undergraduate and graduate professional classes from Jan. 5-8 will be remote, according to a Wednesday afternoon email from Duke administrators.
Members of the community must provide proof of vaccination “in January or as soon as they are eligible under [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and state guidelines,” the email reads.
“The entirety of my Chinese class had to get there some other way,” one student recalled. “I think pretty much anyone who had a final Saturday at 9 a.m. had had to find some other way to get to West Campus.”
