Duke University

Durham, NC

F
Score: 370/1400
6,815
Undergraduate students
97%
Retention rate
$62,688
Annual tuition
0.48
Diversity Index
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Medium Campus
Medium Campus
private
Private University
Urban Campus
Urban Campus
Four-Year College
Four-Year College
South Region
(Neo)Liberal Campus
(Neo)Liberal Campus
Sports Culture
Sports Culture
Noisy Campus
Noisy Campus
Graduate Students Not Unionized
Graduate Students Not Unionized

Description

According to The Kansas City Star, Duke University is one of a handful of universities that has partnered with the surveillance startup, SpotterEDU, founded by Rick Carter, a former basketball coach at DePaul University who had a protective order put against him by the athletics department. SpotterEDU tracks students' movements by connecting their smartphones to the campus WiFi.

Note: We did not receive survey responses from Duke, and the information here was obtained from The Chronicle, Duke's student newspaper.

Are all campus buildings physically accessible to students who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids?

NO

According to The Chronicle, "many buildings lack automatic doors, elevators and ramps."

Are class session recordings readily available for lecture courses?

NO

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2022/02/02172022-ceb-duke-must-take-advantage-of-its-new-virtual-infrastructure-zoom-disability

Are students required to provide documentation of disability to qualify for receiving initial accommodations?

YES

Students must provide documentation, and according to The Chronicle, it "is often a lengthy process, requiring multiple meetings with SDAO staff and medical documentation from a physician."

Is there required diversity and inclusivity training for faculty/staff/and students, and does training include recognition of neurodivergence and disability?

NO

What types of student-run peer support groups exist on campus?

Disability Cultural Center

YES

Mutual Aid Networks

NO

Peer Support Groups

YES

Other

NO

Disability Cultural Center: https://sites.duke.edu/disabilityatduke/

Mutual Aid: https://dukemutualaid.org/ (on hiatus)

Peer Support: https://peerforyou.org/ 

Peer Support: https://sites.duke.edu/dukeline/ (text only)

Also, see: Duke Disability Alliance

Have you experienced ableism, discrimination, or witnessed stigmatizing language?

YES

See Negative Experiences section.

Are police involved in responding to student mental health crises?

YES

https://students.duke.edu/get-assistance/

Does your college have a Student of Concern reporting page?

Yes (Allows anonymous reporting)

https://students.duke.edu/wellness/dukereach/

Clery Report data: Number of sexual assaults reported on campus per thousand students.

2

*2021 data

In 2019, The Chronicle published the findings of a Duke survey indicating that "47.8% percent of women who responded said they had been sexually assaulted while they were students at Duke... 13.5 percent of male students said they have been during their time at Duke." So the Clery Report data is clearly under-reporting instances of sexual assault.

Has the college published an official statement in support of racial justice movements?

Support for Black Lives Matter

NO

Support for Land Back

NO

Does your college offer a Disability Studies curriculum?

NO

Does your college offer a course on Critical Theory?

YES

PHIL 572 Frankfurt School Critical Theory

Does the college engage in morally questionable research?

Animal Experimentation

YES

Cure Autism

YES

Other

YES

Cure Autism research: https://autismcenter.duke.edu/impact-study-cell-therapy-children-diagnosed-autism 

Surveillance: Duke uses SpotterEDU to track students' movements on campus by their smartphones' connection to the campus WiFi.

Facial recognition (non-consensual): https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/06/duke-university-facial-recognition-data-set-study-surveillance-video-students-china-uyghur 

News
Submitted by:
admin
2023-08-16

A Duke professor filed a lawsuit against the University last Wednesday, alleging that Duke pays her significantly less than her male colleagues and that she faced retaliation for her complaints. 

In 2020, Rachel Lance, assistant consulting professor in the department of anesthesiology, was allegedly assigned additional work without an increase in pay by Joseph Mathew, her immediate supervisor and chairman of her department. 

After initially raising “multiple internal complaints” to several University offices, Lance also began expressing concerns about a potential pay gap between herself and other male colleagues in her department. In August of 2021, Lance filed an official complaint with the Office of Institutional Equity, followed by a Charge of Discrimination with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in October.

Lance says that after the complaints were filed, Mathew and other Duke employees created a “hostile work environment” through retaliatory comments and actions, including repeated attempts to pressure Lance into “dropping” her complaints. 

In one such instance, Lance was allegedly told by a professor that her complaints labeled her as a “troublemaker.”

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News
Submitted by:
admin
2022-05-25

On Tuesday, MGM Chief Administrative Officer Kris Matthews informed all department members that OIE and MGM were designing a training module aimed at “helping members of our department be fair and welcoming of individuals who differ in their background,” according to the email.

“Per School of Medicine guidelines, all faculty are required to attend a session,” the email read.

Within minutes, Bryan Cullen, James B. Duke distinguished professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, replied to everyone on the email chain.

“My initial reaction is I refuse to engage in left-wing Maoist political propaganda workshops and, as a tenured faculty, that is my choice,” Cullen wrote in an email reply obtained by The Chronicle.

...

Department members reacted to Cullen’s reply within the email chain and on social media.

"In the below figure, we see a textbook example of a tenured faculty member whose grasp on human decency is on par with his grasp on the reply-all function," wrote MGM doctoral candidate Jeffrey Letourneau in a reply-all email obtained by The Chronicle.

“It is unfortunate you will not be attending Bryan as you might learn that posting comics with transphobic undertones is typically inappropriate for a prestigious Duke tenured faculty member,” doctoral candidate Jonathan Ark wrote in an email reply obtained by The Chronicle.

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News
Submitted by:
admin
2021-11-12

When Cuban-American author Jennine Capó Crucet speaks to students of color at PWIs she reminds them: “This place never imagined you here, and your exclusion was a fundamental premise in its initial design.” The same holds true of Duke Student Government, an organization which will inevitably reflect the values of the university by working in conjunction to, instead of in opposition of, Duke administrative forces. Senate, committee meetings and social gatherings have added fuel to the hellfire that is the psychological trauma caused by my existence in an elite environment.

I am writing to resign from Duke Student Government because of recurrent microaggressions within the organization. Truth is, I’m tired of feeling like an on-hand diversity token and discrimination detector.

To be successful in DSG, a student must be comfortable networking with the predominately white and wealthy representative body and adhere to respectability politics during meetings (especially if said meeting is with an administrator). Normative notions of respectability encouraged by the executive team are tainted with the belief that behavior from dissenting minority and/or low-income students is inherently inferior. Upon my departure, there will be zero senators from underrepresented ethnoracial groups on the Academic Affairs committee. Seemingly, in DSG, intellectualism and changing the face of higher education are not considered acceptable pursuits for Black or LatinX students.

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