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President Vincent Price announced that Duke has decided to postpone commencement for the Class of 2020, but he is committed to holding an in-person commencement celebration on campus at some point.
Hotel employees and full-time food service workers, not just Duke faculty and staff, will keep their current pay for the time being.
Spring semester undergraduate classes will now be automatically graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory scale, wrote Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education, in an email to The Chronicle Wednesday morning.
After weeks of planning, students had to scrap their international itineraries for something a little less exciting.
Junior Michael Castro said that for many Duke students, moving classes online poses challenges that may threaten their academic success this semester, so he created a petition on Change.org.
Duke faculty and staff have been advised to move all in-person meetings to remote conferences, President Vincent Price wrote in an email to the Duke community Monday afternoon.
As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the globe, many students want to know what qualifies them to remain on campus. As Duke aims to sizably reduce the number of people on campus to contain the outbreak, many students are being told to leave.
While much of campus has closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the show must go on.
Days after Duke canceled in-person classes and restricted access to campus, students have come together to help each other navigate lives altered by the coronavirus.
Wondering what you'll be able to get from your dorm?
Duke will extend its ban on University-sponsored events until May 7 and shut down public buildings to visitors.
All classes will take place online for the rest of the Spring semester, Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh wrote in an email Friday afternoon.
Duke has made a significant change from yesterday's on-campus housing announcement.
On March 10, Duke made the unprecedented announcement that classes would shift online until further notice and that students were discouraged from returning to campus. But the news generated more questions than it answered. We compiled the questions that you asked and addressed them to the best of our ability below.
Here are the key takeaways from McMahon and Bennett's email.
After the University announced yesterday that classes will move online, spring break will be extended by a week and students should not return to campus due to the coronavirus spread, the Duke community had many questions. Editor-in-chief Jake Satisky spoke to Duke's spokesperson Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs government relations, to try to get some of those questions answered.
Students, staff members, faculty, alumni, Blue Devil sports fans and anyone else can submit questions using the link below.
On-campus classes will be suspended until further notice and spring break will be extended for a week, according to an email sent to the Duke community Tuesday evening.
Gov. Roy Cooper declared North Carolina in a state of emergency Tuesday in response to the coronavirus spreading further into the state.
In three weeks, an entire campus moved its classes online. “There were a lot of people up at all hours,” said a DKU administrator.
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