For its first year, The Chronicle surveyed Duke faculty members about their thoughts on contentious issues facing higher education, including affirmative action.
Durham City Council voted unanimously to adopt new street and bikeway design guides and emphasized the importance of voting during its Monday meeting.
To see how politics have evolved in North Carolina over the years, The Chronicle conducted an independent analysis of the state’s voting history using publicly available election data.
CFOs seemed predominantly optimistic about the financial outlook for their own companies and the U.S. economy as a whole. Concerns about inflation have decreased since the Q2 survey.
Over the past 17 years, the University has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 31% despite growing its physical footprint by 27% and its campus population by 24%.
Student organizations at Duke — partisan and otherwise — are ramping up their efforts to mobilize voters on campus ahead of the 2024 general election.
While faculty respondents tended to be liberal overall, the disaggregation of the data by field and school revealed variation in political views.
The over 1 million votes account for roughly 13% of the state’s 7.8 million registered voters. Of the votes, 916,433 were cast in person. Of the remaining 91,690 absentee votes, 77,831 were cast by civilians, 11,168 by overseas voters and 2,691 by the military.
Street lights around the Triangle — including on Duke’s campus — have started emitting a bluish-purple hue. The Chronicle explains why.
The North Carolina Award was established in 1961 by the General Assembly to honor contributions to the state in fine arts, literature, public service and science.
The Chronicle found that faculty members across diverse fields and schools were largely in favor of the University officially committing itself to institutional neutrality, though certain demographics are less likely to support such a policy.
Academic Council addressed insufficient lab space available for new hires and concerns about the lack of investment in and deferred maintenance of research facilities and a report on a potential new faculty hiring pilot during its Thursday meeting.
See all our coverage from The Chronicle's inaugural faculty survey.
In an effort by Duke Athletics to excite the Duke football fan base, the program introduced the Devil’s Deck. Access to the deck must be purchased in addition to a ticket, which costs $45 in advance and $55 on gameday, though students receive a discounted rate of $35.
The politicians focused their remarks around contrasting the two major presidential campaigns, characterizing a prospective Trump-Vance administration as dangerous for democracy, while identifying the Harris-Walz ticket as the campaign of “freedom.”
The Chronicle is releasing survey data from its inaugural faculty survey next week. Read about the survey's methodology and limitations, as well as summary statistics of respondents' faculty tenure status, the schools their appointments were in, race and ethnicity, gender identity, religious identity and political leanings.
The Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance campaigns continue to make appearances in North Carolina in the hopes of securing the state’s 16 electoral votes. As of Oct. 16, the 538 polling average has the race essentially even in North Carolina, with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump leading Harris by just 0.5 points.
In response to student frustrations, Duke’s Global Education Office eliminated the lottery for fall 2025 study away programs and has moved to replace it with a “best-fit” rubric-based process, which aims to provide students with more agency in selecting a program and take major-based limitations into consideration.
Fredric Jameson, professor of romance studies, Knut Schmidt Nielsen distinguished professor of comparative literature and director of the Institute for Critical Theory, is remembered for his revitalization of Marxist perspectives in literary theory and for forging new ways to conceptualize postmodernism.
The project — in collaboration with Erasmus University in the Netherlands — is supported by a recent $7 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under the Collaborative Influenza Vaccine Innovation Centers contract.
