With next year’s housing application now open to students until noon on Feb. 14, Duke has made several changes to the process, including the announcement of QuadEx. To help students sort through all these new policies, the Chronicle has compiled the most pressing information about housing in the 2022-2023 year.
Students who are unsure of where to live for the fall 2022 semester may find their place in one of Duke’s three new Living Learning Communities, focused on marine science, holistic wellness and queer culture.
“I do feel like our jobs are being replaced with non-unionized faculty as a form of retaliation for the role that the TWP played in the 2017 negotiations, for centering our need for renewable appointments in the 2021 negotiations and for our ongoing attempts to use University channels to improve our work condition,” said a lecturing fellow in the TWP.
A number of speakers, including current students, alumni and professors, spoke to a crowd of over 120 attendees about on-campus Latinx student organizing.
Proposed changes include increasing the number of senators and reducing the threshold for student referendums.
According to a Jan. 25 email from the Academic Advising Center, students pursuing the B.A. degree will no longer need to take Economics 205, Math 112/122 or Math 202/212. The B.S. “will be virtually unchanged.”
In April, Harris uploaded a video to his YouTube channel titled, “Dead White Professors (Duke University Remix) - dimRISE,” according to a screenshot obtained by The Chronicle. Other videos were titled “Death to Feminism” and contained images of underage girls and former Duke philosophy undergraduate students, according to a former graduate student.
Instances when students may need to isolate in their dorm rooms “[depend] upon both the timing of test results and our isolation capacity,” Dean for Residence Life Deb LoBiondo wrote in an email to The Chronicle.
To create momentum for the new program, Duke Alumni Band invited ESPN analyst Jay Bilas to be the first guest conductor at the Duke vs. University of Connecticut game in December 2014.
The program was founded to invest in the graduate education of future leaders who are committed to effecting positive change in society.
Sullivan discussed his most challenging tasks during the Biden administration, diplomatic situations between the United States and other nations and "common resolve" among the American people.
“If you’re waiting on white supremacy to tell you to slow down, that will never happen,” Hersey said. “Grind culture is a collaboration between white supremacy and capitalism.”
“Taken without a bonfire permit or assistance from Duke and/or Durham officials, these actions were in violation of local laws and Duke University policy and represent an extraordinary degree of safety risk to the active participants themselves and to other onlookers,” the email reads.
Student groups have been advocating for the creation of an Ethnic Studies department; the Asian American Studies Working Group was founded in 2016 and was instrumental in the development of the Asian American and Diaspora Studies program that launched in 2018.
Some professors offer course recordings or synchronous Zoom participation options, while others provide no accommodations for students in quarantine.
This semester, the admissions office has opened tours to all prospective students. Visitors are now required to remain masked for the duration of the tour and tour guides are encouraged not to remove their masks, even when socially distanced during stops.
The resolution also adopts the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism.
Due to the variant’s short incubation period, an administrator explained that most individuals will already be symptomatic before they can be identified and notified as a possible contact.
The announcement comes as President Joe Biden moves to fulfill a campaign promise he made during a Democratic primary debate to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.
The filer of the suit alleges that Duke made a wrongful agreement with chairs of some departments at the School of Medicine who were also PDC managers.
