Location: Durham, N.C.
Type: 4-year, Private
Year founded: 1839
Total enrollment (fall 2014): 14,850
Undergraduate enrollment: 6,646
Undergraduate applicants (class of 2018): 31,523
Acceptance rate: 12.4 percent
Graduation rate (after four years, fall 2013): 87 percent
Undergraduate tuition and fees (2014-2015): $47,243
Sports nickname: Blue Devils
Website: www.duke.edu
A year ago, Justin Robinette, a junior at Duke University at the time, was removed from his position as chairman of the Duke College Republicans for reasons that are still disputed. Robinette claimed he was impeached because of his sexual orientation — he is gay — but members of the board who impeached him cited other reasons, such as neglect of his responsibilities as chairman.
Read More »A year ago, Justin Robinette, a junior at Duke University at the time, was removed from his position as chairman of the Duke College Republicans for reasons that are still disputed. Robinette claimed he was impeached because of his sexual orientation — he is gay — but members of the board who impeached him cited other reasons, such as neglect of his responsibilities as chairman.
Read More »After a two-year pay freeze, Duke University professors will be receiving a 3 percent salary hike for the upcoming academic year. While many private universities have experienced some pay increases during the last few years, public universities are still enduring a dry spell which could lead to possible retention problems.
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The Jazz Loft Project, a new exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, recalls the American jazz scene in the 1950s and 60s in a series of photographs and recordings taken from a man’s New York City apartment.
Read More »Medical students at Duke University will soon be able to travel to India and practice in a different country. A partnership between Duke Medicine and Medanta — the Medicity, a for-profit collection of specialty institutes located near New Delhi, was recently established. The initiative is called the Medanta-Duke Research Institute.
Read More »“Even though Durham-based Merge Records celebrated 15 years of musical success seven years ago, Cam Carrithers is still reliving the moment. His upcoming film class at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University will give students the chance to help create a film collage of Merge moments.”
Read More »Duke University’s GoDuke.com will broadcast Saturday’s basketball game against the University of Virginia in Mandarin Chinese.
Read More »Government isn’t the only institution that is having a hard time in the age of WikiLeaks. Universities are feeling it too, albeit in different ways. Perhaps no entity understands this better right now than Duke University. This year, at least three extremely embarrassing episodes have gone viral on the Internet.
Read More »Despite the historically bad blood between them, students at UNC and Duke University are eager to cooperate with one another. By the extended Nov. 22 deadline, the Kenan-Biddle Partnership had received about 90 proposals for its newly announced grant, suggested to be about $5,000 per proposal, said Ron Strauss, executive associate provost and co-chairman of the partnership’s review committee.
Read More »UNC students seeking to collaborate with Duke University students through a new program have to submit their applications today. Applications to the Kenan-Biddle Partnership were originally due on Nov. 15, but the deadline was extended to today in response to several requests for extensions.
Read More »After six months of wrangling with Duke University administration over his harassment claims, senior Justin Robinette has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against the school. The complaint contends that administrators discriminated against him because he is gay and failed to take appropriate action when he claimed he was being harassed by students and fellow members of the Duke College Republicans.
Read More »Despite expected protests following Duke University’s decision to cancel its popular tailgate celebration, the campus remained calm for this past weekend’s football game as most students simply moved the party off campus. University administrators said the partying was kept to a minimum and was contained to Greek houses, residence halls and bars located near the campus.
Read More »The raucous tailgate party before football games at Duke University has been canceled after an underage teenager was found unconscious in a portable toilet following Saturday’s celebrations. The tailgate tradition started in 2003 and has since evolved into a university-wide event complete with costumes, alcohol, loud music and, more recently, regulations from the Duke administration.
Read More »Students interested in getting a $5,000 grant for next year might benefit from a lack of competition. As of Monday, no applications had been submitted for the Kenan-Biddle Partnership, a three-year, $150,000 collaboration between UNC and Duke University. The grants — suggested to be about $5,000 — are intended to fund student-led projects in the arts, sciences and humanities on either campus.
Read More »Students at Duke University say they are tired of the negative publicity their school has received after a PowerPoint created by an alumna describing her sexual escapades garnered national attention. Karen Owen, a 2010 graduate of Duke, created a 42-slide PowerPoint presentation about her sexual exploits with 13 Duke lovers — many of them college athletes.
Read More »Duke University’s student judiciary ruled in a majority vote Wednesday that the university’s College Republicans did not violate the student government’s constitution by removing former chairman of the club Justin Robinette and a former member Cliff Satell from their listserv. Satell filed the case against the College Republicans, alleging the club had been selective in its membership by removing him from the listserv. But the judiciary ruled that since Satell said he would be boycotting all of the club’s events, the College Republicans had a reason to remove him.
Read More »As many UNC-system schools suffer from a lack of funding, Duke University approved plans to build a new facility for its medical school.
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On Monday, UNC joined Duke University in unveiling the Kenan-Biddle Partnership, which will aim to bridge the 8-mile gap between the two campuses by promoting student-led projects, with preference given to projects proposed jointly by students from both schools.
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates called on university students to step up and lead their country in a lecture to a sold-out audience at Duke University on Wednesday. Gates delivered a message that resonated with his audience, which included a noticeable contingency of ROTC students from universities in the Triangle area.
Read More »Duke Student Government President Mike Lefevre vetoed the student senate’s decision to defund the university’s College Republicans on Friday. Lefevre’s veto comes after the resignation of Chairman Carter Boyle and Vice-Chairman Travis Rapp.
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Duke University’s student government made an unprecedented decision Wednesday night by voting to de-fund and de-charter the university’s College Republicans. The senate’s bill to de-fund the club still needs to be signed into law by Duke Student Government President Mike Lefevre, and the de-chartering act needs to be approved by the Student Organization Finance Committee — an extension of the senate that deals with recognizing and funding student organizations.
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