Ashby has been dean of Trinity since 2015. During her tenure, she led initiatives that helped Trinity more deeply invest in faculty recruitment and development, philanthropy and student engagement.
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.
This represents a slight increase from the Class of 2025’s record-low 4.3% acceptance rate for Regular Decision applicants, but is lower than the Class of 2024’s six percent.
If Duke wins their Final Four game against North Carolina Saturday evening, then the benches will be brought back out Monday morning.
This was almost $100,000 over the $400,000.00 available in the fund.
“One of the amazing things about Duke is that there are so many brilliant people working in so many areas,” Wright said. “I know everything that's going on in biology, but this is a chance to lift my head up and look around and see a lot more of the University. That's really exciting.”
Along with those who have applied to study abroad tentatively taking up rooms, a secondary cause of the waitlists was an excess number of rising seniors who have applied to live on campus.
The raises were implemented due to vacancy and retention issues in both departments, and they'll cost Durham $9 million each year.
Data for the rankings came from statistical surveys of more than 2,150 programs and reputation surveys sent to more than 23,200 academics and professionals.
The Chronicle’s Volume 116 made a commitment to promote racial justice within both the Duke community and our internal organization. Volume 117 has sought to continue and build upon these efforts.
The campaign demands include a retention bonus to keep remaining staff, one planning day a month for the rest of the year, the establishment of a clear threshold for schools to move to remote learning due to staffing shortages and a streamlined process for hiring substitutes.
“I think [the AADS] program will continue to grow exponentially. In terms of the number of courses, faculty, hopefully heading towards a major departmentalization—I mean, those are the long term goals. And to be at an elite institution like Duke, and to have a minor degree program in the [United States] South is an incredible achievement."
This year, juniors Ella Gunady, Aditya Paul and Tanner Zachem were among the 417 college students from across the United States to be awarded the Goldwater Scholarship on Friday.
Licensed kegs obtained from a brewery or ABC store will now be allowed in the common spaces of residence halls on West Campus and other spaces reserved for events involving alcohol.
If Duke advances to the National Championship April 4, lottery winners will also automatically receive a ticket to the championship game.
Students elected new Duke Student Government senators and vice presidents in an online election Thursday and Friday.
Titled Moving Forward Together, the response is based on four principles: prioritizing equity, empowering individuals, maintaining health system capacity and collaborating with local partners.
The new K-Ville committee was created to address the “exclusive community within campus culture” that excludes students with different ability statuses and low-income students, according to the committee statute.
“We're really looking to turn to more aggressive tactics to really show to the Duke administration that there's no support for them to continue dragging their feet on divestment, and also that there are stronger legal and financial reasons for them changing as well. So we hope to show that in the coming weeks as we go to the next phase of our campaign,” one student said.
The change comes after CareerConnections was replaced with Handshake in summer 2021 and during the midst of continued progress towards raising the minimum wage for student jobs.
