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Purple kicks off social activism week with a purpose from Duke Chronicle on Vimeo.
Purple, a new student organization aiming to raise awareness about five specific social issues, launched its social activism week Monday. Check out the video above, shot and narrated by The Chronicle’s Brithny Zhang, to see Purple’s events from the week and what group leaders think the organization means to campus.
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Forbes magazine ranked Duke 104 of America’s top 600 colleges in its second year of rankings, released Wednesday.
The placement puts Duke between Wheaton College at 103 and Cornell College at 105. Neighboring University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was ranked 68.
Topping the list is the United States Military Academy, followed by Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology in second and third, respectively. Duke’s placement this year dropped from 80th on Forbes’ list last year.
The magazine based its ratings on a set of criteria, including student satisfaction with courses based on ratemyprofessor.com, alumni salaries, graduation rates, professors receiving awards and student debt load.
Traditionally ranked in the top 10 of American colleges, Duke has been at the top of college rankings for years but has recently seen fluctuations. In its annual ratings, U.S. News & World Report placed Duke 8th in the nation for 2009 and 13th in the world in its first rankings of world colleges last November.
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The second of Duke’s two sessions of the Talent Identification Program has been canceled, officials announced Wednesday. The early termination results from more than 25 of the 260 students exhibiting flu symptoms.
All cases are consistent with the seasonal flu and are mild to moderate, according to a Wednesday news release. This is the first time in the program’s almost three-decade history that it has been canceled prematurely. The second session was scheduled to end Aug. 1
Officials were not clear whether the affected students carried the new H1N1 flu virus, commonly known as swine flu. The first cases of swine flu at Duke surfaced on East Campus last month among students participating in TIP, the American Dance Festival and writing programs held on East.
“Although none of the students seems to be in any serious danger, we decided to err on the side of caution and cancel the program to reduce the accelerating risk of infection among the other participants,” Martha Putallaz, Duke TIP’s executive director, said in the statement Wednesday. “We made this decision in close consultation with Duke experts on infectious disease and student health, as well as with campus officials. The health and safety of our students is our highest priority.”
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New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof will speak at Duke next Fall, Colleen Scott, associate director of the Baldwin Scholars program confirmed Thursday.
Kristof will give a public lecture at the University as part of a tour to promote his new book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.
“He’s the big voice in the world and he’s using his voice to highlight the issues the people in WISER are passionate about,” said Sheryl Broverman, associate professor of the practice of biology and co-founder and NGO chair of the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research. “We hope it’ll kick off discussion on campus about the role gender plays in international development.”
She added that Kristof’s speech will help WISER move forward, beyond fundraising and toward more education about the pivotal role women play in global economic development. The event will be hosted by the Baldwin Scholars program, WISER and other campus organizations.
Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer prize winner and has been a New York Times columnist since November 2001. He is largely known for bringing to light human rights issues in third-world countries such as the genocide in Darfur.
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The University announced today that former president Bill Clinton will be a guest speaker at “A Celebration of the Lives of John Hope and Aurelia Whittington Franklin,” next Thursday, June 11 at the Duke Chapel. The event will begin at 11 a.m. and honors the late historian John Hope Franklin and his late wife Aurelia, who passed away in 1999.
Other speakers include Vernon Jordan, an attorney and civil rights leader and Franklin’s long-time friend, Duke President Richard Brodhead, Franklin’s niece Cynthia Gibbs Wilson and trustee emerita Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans.
“Because of the life John Hope Franklin lived, the public service he rendered, and the scholarship that was the mark of his distinguished career, we all have a richer understanding of who we are as Americans and our journey as a people,” President Barack Obama said in a statement in March. “Dr. Franklin will be deeply missed, but his legacy is one that will surely endure. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to his loved ones, as our nation mourns his loss.”
Franklin was a noted figure in the field of African-American studies and the Civil Rights movement. He and his wife were married on June 11, 1940 - next week’s event would mark the couple’s 69th anniversary.
The James B. Duke professor of history passed away March 25 of congestive heart failure at the age of 94. As per Franklin’s request, neither a funeral nor a memorial service has been held since his death.
For more information on the event, please visit http://www.duke.edu/johnhopefranklin/event.html.
The program will also be aired live on UNC-NC and a live webcast can be viewed at www.ustream.tv/dukeuniversity.
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Forbes magazine has ranked Durham third in its Top College Town for Jobs list Tuesday.
With 7.4% of workers in university jobs and 2.49 employment growth since last year, Durham is one of the top cities seeing “business booms,” the magazine reports. Although job availability decreased by 3.5% over the course of 12 months from March 2008, 62 college towns reportedly saw employment growth. The magazine also considers Duke Durham’s primary university.
Forbes defines “college town” as an area where “employment from universities, four-year colleges, two-year community colleges and university medical teaching hospitals supplied 2 percent or more of area jobs.”
The magazine also considers research universities “great environments” for employment and businesses because of the availability of recent college graduates, providing talent and inexpensive labor.
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