Experts discuss improving early education
By Hayley Fowler | Feb. 18, 2013North Carolina is taking its first steps to improve elementary education as part of a national push to better teach children at younger ages.
Read More »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
North Carolina is taking its first steps to improve elementary education as part of a national push to better teach children at younger ages.
Read More »North Carolina is taking its first steps to improve elementary education as part of a national push to better teach children at younger ages.
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There are few venues comparable to Cameron Indoor Stadium. And today at 9 p.m., it will be filled to capacity with more than 9,000 fans who want to see nothing short of a dismantling of the Tar Heels.
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Ian Williams wrote a 1990 column for The Daily Tar Heel entitled “Why I Hate Duke.” It remains one of the DTH’s most popular stories. In 2007, Williams wrote a follow-up column, “Why I Still Hate Duke.”
Read More »Duke University’s project to build a campus in Kunshan, China, is facing more setbacks.
Read More »The new joint biomedical engineering program for undergraduates at UNC and N.C. State University will help combine the strengths of both schools, leading to more diverse opportunities for students.
Read More »A recent Duke University fraternity party has provoked angry responses from Asian and Asian-American students and faculty at Duke and UNC.
Read More »UNC students will no longer be able to travel to Durham for free. The Robertson bus, which runs between this University’s campus and Duke’s campus, will now cost $2.50 starting next semester.
Read More »While Chapel Hill experienced no more than high winds and a drop in temperature when Hurricane Sandy hit land Monday, students at universities across the state and the Northeast are still waiting for normal campus life to return.
Read More »Duke University recently joined the lineup of higher education institutions boosting their presence in the nation’s capitol. The nation’s colleges and universities have steadily been increasing their spending in Washington, D.C., for more than a decade.
Read More »CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — They weren’t even supposed to be in the title game. No, they were supposed to lose Friday, cut their losses and head back to Chapel Hill.
Read More »Although UNC and Duke might be intense rivals on the basketball court, the student governments from both schools have been collaborating.
Read More »Due to a technical glitch with the online ticket lottery notification system, all students who entered the lottery, including those who won tickets, received an email saying they would not receive tickets, said Caitlin Goforth, president of the Carolina Athletic Association.
Read More »Last year, there was no clear winner in Jose Hernandez and Henrique Cunha’s rivalry. The North Carolina and Duke juniors, their respective teams’ top players, played three times in 2011. Hernandez won once and lost once, and the final match went unfinished. Each player’s record against the other was 1-1-1.
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Win or die. That’s how North Carolina senior Thomas Ferguson characterized the UNC wrestling team’s mindset before its meet against Duke on Monday night at Carmichael Arena.
Read More »The largest-ever individual financial aid donation received by Duke University will promote diversity and access for prospective students in both the U.S. and abroad, administrators say.
Read More »A partnership between Duke University and the city of Kunshan, China might provide more educational opportunities for Chinese students, but some faculty have questioned the feasibility of the proposal.
Read More »In its second year, the Kenan-Biddle Partnership has seen a significant drop in interest.
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Three years after former Student Body President Eve Carson’s murder exposed cracks in the N.C. probation system and prompted a total overhaul, practices are still changing. Reforms to be implemented Dec. 1 and Jan. 1 will make it harder to revoke probation, will require that all felons are supervised upon prison release and will reroute offenders from prison to probation.
Read More »The presence of Adderall on college campuses has led some administrators to call into question the ethics behind the unauthorized use of the drug.
Read More »As Chapel Hill prepares to limit the number of ghouls and goblins roaming Franklin Street this Halloween, other campuses are expecting large crowds of revelers both on and off campus.
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