More first-years will enter the Senate through the at-large process, decided by interviews with a selection committee rather than elections.
Several students resoundingly agreed with the article's findings but remained uncertain on whether it will push the University to increase socioeconomic diversity in future student bodies.
Those wishing to teach house courses in the spring must now complete a three-hour “syllabus design workshop.” The workshops will be held on Sept. 16 and Oct. 1 and have already been filled.
“We don’t want our councils or our department to do things in isolation when there’s a room full of students who care about the campus experience, and we want to engage you all that way,” said Ali Harrison, senior associate dean for residence life.
Alert Carolina’s first announcement on Wednesday was at 12:54 p.m., and the first DukeAlert was sent 44 minutes later at 1:38 p.m. The Wednesday DukeAlert was delivered nearly two hours faster than the DukeAlert responding to the Aug. 28 shooting at UNC, which came almost three hours after the initial Alert Carolina.
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This year, class websites have been split among two different learning management systems: Canvas and Sakai. It’s not just different courses being hosted on separate platforms. One student has a main lecture on Sakai, while their lab section is on Canvas.
Dining administrators hoped that the app would not experience any more outages. But four days later, the app experienced another one, its second since the beginning of the semester.
Beverly Gray, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, partnered with Planned Parenthood South Atlantic to file a lawsuit challenging several provisions of the Care for Women, Children and Families Act.
The article states that Duke is one of the “least economically diverse” colleges and an “exception to the exception” among elite higher education institutions.
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Roughly every 15 years, the Council is tasked with updating Trinity College’s curriculum. Its goal is to approve a new curriculum by spring 2024 and launch it in fall 2025 when the Class of 2029 arrives on campus.
The program is part of a Pratt initiative to introduce more degree programs that are “industry-focused,” according to Ernesto Escobar, executive in residence in the Pratt School of Engineering and director of the master’s program.
The service initially went offline on Aug. 31, when students were faced with a blank screen on the service’s mobile application and a description citing “technical issues” with the app.
After the National Labor Relations Board approved DGSU’s petition for an election, Duke doctoral students overwhelmingly voted to become an officially recognized union in August. The DGSU’s Tuesday rally was the union’s first since the election was certified.
Robertson Scholars, who regularly travel between the campuses of UNC and Duke, are enrolled as undergraduate students at both schools.
Other parents said that their insurance policies were denied for similar reasons, taking to both informal and moderated Duke parent Facebook groups to share their concerns throughout July and August.
Some doctoral students at Duke’s peer institutions are unionized, while others are not. Here’s how their benefits currently compare.
The first DukeAlert was released over three hours after the initial Alert Carolina announcement. Meanwhile, Duke students planned to make the trip to Chapel Hill in the time it took for the DukeAlert to be sent out.
Some Duke students, including the dual-campus Robertson Scholars, also take classes at UNC and regularly travel between campuses.
