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1 month ago | 
dukechronicle.com | Ava Littman |Michael Austin |Abby Spiller |Ryan Kilgallen
The Class of 2025 arrived at Duke at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic, just as the University was returning to "normalcy." But they soon experienced significant changes to campus life from the introduction of QuadEx and Experiential Orientation to an uptick in campus activism surrounding the Israel-Hamas war. Their senior year unfolded alongside a contentious national election cycle that brought sweeping changes to the landscape of higher education.
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2 months ago | 
dukechronicle.com | Abby Spiller
“The prospect of a thrilling time is ahead.”Hailing from a green-walled sushi restaurant in Washington, D.C., during my gap semester in spring 2023, this quote, printed on a fortune cookie slip, quickly found its home in the back of my phone case. Though just a random fortune cookie slip, I yearned for those eight words to come true.
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2 months ago | 
dukechronicle.com | Abby Spiller
President Vincent Price joined 184 colleges, universities and scholarly societies in a letter condemning the federal government’s “unprecedented” threats to higher education and calling for “constructive engagement” from the Trump administration. The joint statement released Tuesday by the American Association of Colleges and Universities further denounced “the coercive use of public research funding” and cited “undue government intrusion” as a threat to the mission of higher education.
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2 months ago | 
dukechronicle.com | Abby Spiller
Senior Jax Nalley and Austin Beason, an executive master’s in business administration candidate, were selected by the Young Trustee Nominating Committee and President Vincent Price as Duke’s next Undergraduate and Graduate/Professional Young Trustees, respectively. The nominations will be brought to the Board of Trustees for election May 10, wrote Margaret Epps, secretary to the Board of Trustees and Price's chief of staff, in a Friday email to The Chronicle.
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2 months ago | 
dukechronicle.com | Abby Spiller
As Duke braces for potential federal funding cuts, University administrators spoke to faculty, staff and graduate students about updates to its strategic realignment and cost-reduction process on a Tuesday Zoom webinar. The administrators pointed to potential “employment action,” delaying typical operating budget and capital budget reviews and the use of artificial intelligence as strategies Duke plans to implement in the coming months.
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2 months ago | 
dukechronicle.com | Abby Spiller
Junior Tara Singh will serve as the 2025-26 Duke Student Government president and junior Dylan Cawley will serve as the executive vice president. A total of 1,982 undergraduate students cast a ballot in this year’s DSG election, which was open from noon Monday to noon Tuesday, wrote DSG Attorney General Chloe Decker, a senior, in a Tuesday evening email to The Chronicle. The previous election cycle received 500 more votes, with a total turnout of 2,482 students.
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Mar 31, 2025 | 
dukechronicle.com | Abby Spiller
Duke admitted 1,953 high school seniors to the Class of 2029 through its Regular Decision admissions cycle, according to Kathy Phillips, associate dean in the Undergraduate Admissions Office. The University received a record-high 53,223 Regular Decision applications, bringing the cycle’s acceptance rate to an all-time low of 3.67%, last year. Of the recent batch of acceptees, 220 were originally deferred in the Early Decision round.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
dukechronicle.com | Abby Spiller
The Chronicle will be accepting endorsement letters for the 2025 Duke Student Government presidential and executive vice presidential elections. Submissions will be reviewed from March 21 to March 29. All accepted endorsements will be published by March 30 at 11:59 p.m.This year’s candidates for president are juniors Katelyn Cai, Comfort Markwei and Tara Singh. The candidate for executive vice president is junior Dylan Cawley. Voting opens at midnight on March 31 and closes at midnight on April 1.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
dukechronicle.com | Abby Spiller
Duke administrators announced a number of new cost-cutting measures and a sweeping review of administrative efficiency amid intensifying federal funding threats in a Thursday afternoon email to all University faculty and staff. Upcoming spending adjustments include suspending capital spending, freezing staff hiring and salary mid-year adjustments, reviewing all faculty hiring practices and slowing all non-compensation spending.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
dukechronicle.com | Abby Spiller
Former Duke men’s basketball player Grant Hill will be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2025, Duke announced in a video Monday evening during the men’s basketball game against Wake Forest University. Hill, Trinity ‘94 and current member of the Board of Trustees, is recognized as one of college basketball’s all-time greatest players. He played on the Duke men’s basketball team during its first two championship runs in 1991 and 1992.
