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Despite filling out their daily symptom monitoring survey on time, some students have still had their DukeCards deactivated due to technological issues the Office of Information Technology is working to fix.
Four campus organizations have been placed on suspension since Aug. 7, and six individual students have received interim suspensions, Mary Pat McMahon, vice provost and vice president for student affairs, and Gary Bennett, vice provost for undergraduate education, wrote in a Friday email to undergraduates.
Duke announced Friday that all students who request spring housing will be able to live on campus.
As North Carolina enters Phase 3 of reopening at 5 p.m. Friday, Duke’s safety guidelines are staying the same.
Duke Student Government Senators heard from sophomore Drew Flanagan, chair of the Student Organization Finance Committee, at their Wednesday meeting as he discussed a decline in funding to student groups and the current lack of annual budgets due to COVID-19.
Duke’s surveillance testing program has not yet expanded to include contract workers, which one food service worker said shows a lack of care for those workers on the part of the University. According to Vice President for Administration Kyle Cavanaugh, surveillance testing will expand to include contract workers “as soon as the logistics can be worked out, which should be very soon."
A large crowd gathered on the Bryan Center Plaza Wednesday during an event with free cookies hosted by the Office of the Academic Deans in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.
Senior Sydney McKinney was sitting in an airport this summer, scrolling through eBooks, when she noticed that the top 10 trending books were all about anti-racism. This gave her an idea: starting Duke’s Anti-Racism Book Club.
In June, Duke’s administration committed to taking action against racism in the Duke community. On Tuesday, the community learned more about the steps they’ve taken.
After serving on the President’s Advisory Committee on Institutional History, created last summer, Gino Nuzzolillo, Trinity ‘20, wrote a public letter to Committee members and Duke’s administration with concerns about the committee’s foundation and the execution of its mission. The letter criticized the Committee’s first year of operations, before its membership last month and President Vincent Price this month assigned the committee an updated charge.
There were eight new positive coronavirus tests reported at Duke between Sept 19. and Sept. 25, out of 14,141 total tests, according to data released Monday on the University’s COVID-19 testing tracker.
The Board of Trustees heard the latest on Duke’s anti-racism efforts and COVID-19 response at their quarterly meeting Friday and Saturday.
Duke’s endowment fell slightly after reaching a record high last year, in a year that saw stock market volatility due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Louis DeJoy's family's foundation is a familiar name on Duke's donor list.
A building at the heart of West Campus is now named for Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, one of the first five Black undergraduates at Duke and a distinguished academic.
The Arts and Sciences Council voted Thursday to approve a proposal to create a new minor: inequality studies.
In his report “Freedom of the Press on Campus,” John Wilson, a fellow at the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, assigned Duke an “F” for the level of freedom given to journalists on campus.
Duke students who don't live in North Carolina aren’t able to be paid for hourly positions directly by the University. Instead, this semester they'll be paid through Aerotek, a Maryland-based staffing and recruiting agency.
In past election seasons, students have gathered in lecture halls and common rooms on campus to watch debates over shared food and lively discussion, but this year they’ll have to log on to Zoom to watch the debates in the company of classmates.
As a unique semester moves forward, fewer students are along for the ride than last year.
