Duke has, for many years, worked to promote faculty diversity. And yet, despite improvements in some areas, the University has failed to significantly increase the number of Latino faculty on the...
Medical school is an expensive proposition. Last year, the average annual cost of attending a private medical school was $278, 455—dramatically higher than that of a private law school, which costs...
Duke has long dedicated itself to the pursuit of socioeconomic diversity. In 2012, the University launched the Socioeconomic Diversity Initiative to assess the state of financial diversity.
Beginning with the Class of 2018, freshmen on East Campus will have the option to live in gender-neutral housing.
Selecting a speaker for commencement is a difficult and weighty task.
Early graduation rates are on the rise. Since 2010, the number of students opting to get out early has jumped by 30 percent.
Posters have flooded campus in recent days that bear important messages for the student body, but the “You Don’t Say” campaign—run by campus group Think Before You Talk and student-led LGBTQ...
On Wednesday, the Duke Student Government unanimously adopted a resolution advocating for the renaming of Aycock dormitory.
Senior Daniel Strunk, chief justice of Duke Student Government, has launched The 40% Plan to alter the way money is collected from students through the Undergraduate Student Activity Fee, which is...
In yesterday’s editorial, we sought to tease apart and examine some of the issues presented by greek life.
Five out of nine members of Dartmouth College’s Panhellenic Council recently drafted a letter detailing their decision to abstain from recruitment.
In yesterday's editorial, we outlined the fragmentation of social life at Duke—a consequence, we argue, largely of administrative initiatives designed to improve the safety and vitality of social...
Few underclassmen can imagine the bacchanal that West Campus used to be.
When students from the Class of 2018 begin to fill campus next fall, one out of every two will have applied and been admitted through the early decision process.
Yesterday, we addressed part of Duke Divinity Professor Reinhard Hütter’s article, “Polytechnic University,” and recommended an epistemology requirement in the curriculum.
In November of last year, Reinhard Hütter, professor of Christian theology at the Divinity School, wrote an article in First Things advocating for undergraduate theological study at research...
Just before Winter Break, the American Studies Association issued a resolution to boycott Israeli universities in an act of protest against Israeli occupation of Palestine.
A recent Yale study has revealed that employers who fail to establish pre-fixed hiring criteria before evaluating prospective employees tend to discriminate against female applicants.
Today, students will crisscross campus, braving the cold, on their way to their first classes of the semester.
Students wrapped up this semester by filling out course evaluations online.
