The candidates—Curtis Hrischuk, Christopher Burns, Gayathri Rajaraman, Valarie Jarvis and Joetta MacMiller—are joined under the Better Board, Better Schools, Better Futures (BBBS) slate.
While Duke’s plan to house some first-year students on West Campus for the fall was a positive experience for many, some first-year students have chosen to relocate to East for the spring.
In a July 7 email to DKU undergraduates, DKU Dean of Students Raphael Moffett and DKU Dean of Undergraduate Studies Marica France announced that Kunshan students “who are both able to get to Duke’s campus by the start of the fall semester” and “whose visa status will allow them to take credit-bearing courses in the US” could study at Duke this fall.
Duke’s Panhellenic Council has voted to no longer allow chapters to host mixers with all-male organizations.
The Pratt School of Engineering will host the first meeting later this month for its new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Community Committee. The committee includes faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students from each Pratt department and will work to create positive change in the way of diversity, equity, inclusion and community in Pratt.
By May, colleges and universities had developed a spectrum of plans for holding a fall semester amid a pandemic. Now, as other schools in the Triangle move online, Duke is still hosting classes on-campus while other schools across the country try to do the same.
On Aug. 17, as Duke students everywhere were just rolling out of bed, Durham public school students were logging in to their first online class of the school year.
