Last month, the University’s Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility hosted a public forum to discuss with students the transparency and management of the University’s endowment.
In a week’s time, hoards of sleep-deprived students will be camped out in Perkins, adding to the ever-growing piles of empty coffee cups and plastic food containers from Vondy.
With recent campus controversies and academic and personal stresses weighing heavily on our minds, it is easy to become disillusioned and fatigued by life at Duke.
Last Friday, a coalition of students organized a second conversation in Page Auditorium to cover a range of issues that included racial and socioeconomic diversity at Duke.
In February, we wrote about the need to “address the student experience on campus” with respect to socioeconomic diversity, and two months later, we discussed normalizing the experience of first generation college students at Duke.
Last week, Dartmouth College joined a growing list of universities in the news for student protests about race.
With next semester’s registration wrapping up, our curriculum and its requirements have been on students’ minds.
Friday evening the world was stunned when six sites across Paris were violently attacked in suicide bombings and shootings resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people.
It has been a rough week for higher education, witnessing the resignation of a university system president following failures to address concerns regarding racial tension on campus, resignations of professors and staff who failed to acknowledge students concerns of bodily threats and the call for resignation of a residential House Master at Yale following an email students found trivializing and divisive.
Tensions flared on Tuesday between student activists and the media on the University of Missouri’s campus.
On Monday, we discussed our campus’s dire need for leadership to step up with helpful solutions or to enact the ones we offered.
Last week, a student and the community of which he is a part were explicitly and violently threatened. The nation over, we find ourselves yet again issuing perfunctory apologies, gathering on symbolic steps and pledging to stand up against hate, only to have another wall defaced, another threat sent to a minority student, another Halloween party where blackface and ethnic identities are paraded as costumes. This rinse and repeat is draining.
It is a toxic time on America’s campuses. It is a toxic time, and we are apathetic. Some are too tired of speaking against echo chambers—where nobody is willing to listen.
As we move into the last weeks of fall semester, it is time for many first-years to look ahead to spring semester and recruitment for living groups.
An alarm goes off, and you grope in the darkness for your laptop. Your registration window has arrived.
In the United States, North Carolina’s public university system is a flagship of state school systems.
Yesterday, we commented on the culture of mentorship and advising opportunities at Duke and made suggestions to improve institutionally-facilitated mentorship on campus.
As deadlines for summer internships, applications for DukeEngage and registration for spring semester classes approach, students are beginning to consider all their choices in the next round of crafting their undergraduate experience—or their first round of life after graduation for our seniors.
This Halloween, step into a dimly lit, old room, hear the dripping of the water pipes and walk obviously as black mold slowly spreads through your walls.
This year, the Durham County Tax Administration will begin its appraisal of Durham property values to reassess property taxation.
