Preetha Ramachandran is a Trinity senior and diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator for The Chronicle's 118th volume. She was previously senior editor for Volume 117.
The Chronicle’s Volume 116 made a commitment to promote racial justice within both the Duke community and our internal organization. This volume, 118, has sought to continue and build upon these efforts.
Within the conference, roundtable and forum sessions discussed new directions and the future of Asian American Studies in the Southeast.
Sylvia Acevedo, Patrick Brown, Tom Catena and Akinwumi Adesina will be recognized at Sunday’s ceremony, to be held in Wallace Wade Stadium. Acevedo, Brown and Catena will be awarded Doctor of Science degrees and Adesina will be awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
Effective July 1, the minimum wage for general student job postings will increase to $15 per hour, a jump from the $10.50 baseline.
Duke will bestow honorary degrees to four recipients at the Class of 2022's commencement ceremony in May, a list that includes a rocket scientist, an economist, a prominent biochemist and an influential surgeon.
Titled “Narrating Resistance & Agency: Shifting the Discourse on Palestine,” the series featured Dana Alhasan, a local community organizer; Alaa Hammouda, a peace fellow at the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a journalist and producer; and writer Mohammed El-Kurd.
During her tenure, McClain focused on enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in graduate education and increasing financial and professional development resources for graduate students.
For the fifth year in a row, The Chronicle surveyed members of Duke's first-year class. Read an overview of the class, including demographic data; paths to Duke and plans upon arriving; and the use of campus resources and amenities.
The Chronicle asked first-years about their knowledge and usage of Duke’s amenities and academic, health and wellness, mental health and identity and cultural groups/spaces.
In an open letter from the UNC Residence Hall Association, the executive board condemned the university’s opening plans, calling them “extremely reckless and disheartening.”
Professors John Aldrich (top left), Judith Kelley (top center), Bill Adair (bottom center) and Guy-Uriel Charles (bottom right) discussed the ongoing presidential election at an event moderated by Mac McCorkle (top right) and Deondra Rose (bottom left).
Valerie Ashby, dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, updated faculty on the Trinity Committee on Anti-Racism during her fall update to the Arts and Sciences Council.
Nancy-Ann DeParle, deputy chief of staff for policy in the Obama administration and architect of the Affordable Care Act, spoke to students Sept. 16.
