Out of 3,116 tests administered to returning graduate and undergraduate students in August, four results have so far come back positive, Duke announced in a Wednesday news release.
Amid new policies, actions and court decisions, life has been uncertain for many undocumented students for the past few years.
Move-in for the 2020 fall semester is a bit different than normal. Take a look at how Duke is handling the process and at how students feel about the upcoming year.
Duke is moving ahead with reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, but life on campus will look little like it did before.
If you’re just arriving on campus, the thousands of faces you see (in person or virtually) may be a bit intimidating. But The Chronicle is here to help. Here are some of the University’s biggest stars to be on the lookout for as you get adjusted to campus life.
From combating “Zoom burnout” to avoiding time zone conflicts, student leaders have been working tirelessly this summer to brainstorm ways to conduct engaging virtual events.
How will students satisfy their late-night cravings this semester, with the changes to campus dining due to the coronavirus pandemic?
Move-in this fall will not be marked by friend groups reuniting in crowded hallways or whole families unpacking together.
The student government passed resolutions calling for changes to fall grading policy and the fall academic calendar amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
As the fall semester begins amid the coronavirus pandemic, members of the Duke community will have to agree to the Duke Compact, the text of which is included in a Monday evening news release. The agreement includes commitments to wear a mask in public and participate in COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and self-reporting of symptoms.
The Chronicle will print one day per week starting this academic year. The decision to move away from printing twice weekly—as The Chronicle has done since the 2018-19 academic year—is part of the newspaper’s focus on digital offerings as it enters its 116th volume.
After Duke walked back reopening plans, some upperclassmen were left with mere weeks to compete with other students for an apartment, sign a lease, pack up their belongings and move—all during a pandemic.
President Price announced Saturday that the Duke will rescind its planned 3.9% tuition increase from last year.
While Duke students are currently petitioning for the reduction of fall 2020 tuition and housing, two class action lawsuits for the repayment of spring 2020 costs have been voluntarily dismissed.
From daily symptom monitoring to isolation procedures, Duke is implementing testing, tracing and quarantine to combat the spread of the coronavirus on campus this fall.
Juniors and seniors have until Friday, July 31 to apply to live on campus for the Fall semester, after Duke announced Sunday that it was scaling back its reopening plans. There are limited housing spaces available, according to the Keep Learning website, and requests for housing will be approved for those students whose “academic progress and personal well being significantly depend on being in Duke-provided housing.”
New U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement guidance bars newly enrolled international students from entering the United States for the Fall semester if they take only online classes.
As Duke prepares for a year unlike any before, undergraduates still have to register for Fall classes before the semester starts Aug. 17.
Duke is limiting on-campus Fall housing to first-years, sophomores and students with special circumstances in a step back from its original reopening plan.
Duke has purchased the Cambria Hotel Durham, a recently renovated 148-room, two-building hotel surrounded by the Duke University Medical Center, according to the Triangle Business Journal. Duke renamed the hotel to The Lodge at Duke Medical Center, and it joins the JB Duke Hotel and the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club as Duke-owned lodging.
