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After Duke walked back reopening plans, some upperclassmen were left with mere weeks to compete with other students for an apartment, sign a lease, pack up their belongings and move—all during a pandemic.
President Price announced Saturday that the Duke will rescind its planned 3.9% tuition increase from last year.
While Duke students are currently petitioning for the reduction of fall 2020 tuition and housing, two class action lawsuits for the repayment of spring 2020 costs have been voluntarily dismissed.
From daily symptom monitoring to isolation procedures, Duke is implementing testing, tracing and quarantine to combat the spread of the coronavirus on campus this fall.
Juniors and seniors have until Friday, July 31 to apply to live on campus for the Fall semester, after Duke announced Sunday that it was scaling back its reopening plans. There are limited housing spaces available, according to the Keep Learning website, and requests for housing will be approved for those students whose “academic progress and personal well being significantly depend on being in Duke-provided housing.”
As Duke prepares for a year unlike any before, undergraduates still have to register for Fall classes before the semester starts Aug. 17.
Duke is limiting on-campus Fall housing to first-years, sophomores and students with special circumstances in a step back from its original reopening plan.
Duke has purchased the Cambria Hotel Durham, a recently renovated 148-room, two-building hotel surrounded by the Duke University Medical Center, according to the Triangle Business Journal. Duke renamed the hotel to The Lodge at Duke Medical Center, and it joins the JB Duke Hotel and the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club as Duke-owned lodging.
The Duke Black Coalition Against Policing's demands propose a three-part approach for Duke to sever “its ties to all systems predicated on policing and imprisonment,” including greater transparency, divestment from any ties to the “military and prison-industrial complex” and a plan to abolish the Duke University Police Department.
The brief, filed Sunday, also features signatures from universities such as Stanford, Vanderbilt and the seven Ivy Leagues other than Harvard. It notes that these institutions’ international students “have helped make American higher education the envy of the world.”
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on and stay-at-home orders continue, some students have found creative ways to make use of their time at home, from recording a podcast to reaching internet fame.
International students, already dealing with travel restrictions and an unusual upcoming semester amid a pandemic, now face the prospect of losing their visa status and ability to stay in the country if they don’t take in-person classes.
Students can prepare for a socially distant move-in and lots of single rooms for the Fall semester.
After granting students unable to return home housing for the summer, Housing and Residence Life unexpectedly changed some students’ required move-out dates due to Fall semester planning.
Duke plans to take legal action in support of a lawsuit challenging new restrictions on educational visas, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, told The Chronicle Wednesday.
“This is a misguided effort that will only harm talented young people and the colleges and universities that are vital to our society,” President Vincent Price wrote in a statement.
As classes—and the coronavirus—continue into the summer, Duke’s default satisfactory/unsatisfactory grading system from the Spring semester in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and distance learning is no longer applicable.
As summer wears on and Duke moves forward with plans for students to return to campus, we're sure you have lots of questions about what the next academic year will look like. From move-in and housing to extracurriculars, academics, athletics and more, we want to know what you need to know.
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Duke still plans to begin the Fall semester with students on campus, according to a Tuesday message from President Vincent Price.
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