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Adway S. Wadekar is a Trinity sophomore and a university news editor of The Chronicle's 118th volume. He has also contributed to the sports section.
An American Association of University Professors report claims the North Carolina legislature exerts political influence on UNC System operations.
“To be clear, this document was never used as a lesson plan in a Duke class or by a Duke faculty member, nor was it promoted by Duke as a teaching tool,” Duke spokesperson Michael Schoenfeld wrote in an email to The Chronicle.
Council members considered these reports in the context of the new ombuds office that the University is in the process of establishing.
The Council started by voting to approve the new health policy certificate proposal, which will be a joint venture between the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Despite faculty raising concerns about the proposal in the Council’s previous meeting, the vote to approve it passed with an overwhelming majority.
Executive Vice President Daniel Ennis and Vice President for Finance Rachel Satterfield presented the financial interactions between the University and DUHS. They also answered questions about facing rising inflation and cost escalation, including raising employees’ salaries with the inflation rate.
Senators nominated people for seven awards during the meeting and subsequently voted on the nominations. Four awards were given to members of DSG, one went to an administrator, another to a staff member and one to a DSG caucus.
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.
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.
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.
In answer to questions about investments in Russia, Price said that Duke is close to divestment from the country. “I can't speak to the exact percentage, but it is a small fraction of the single percent of our portfolio,” he told the Council.