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Why Harvard, Stanford, and Duke are calling students off wait lists at the very last minute – Times of India

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As the fall semester approaches, several of America’s most selective colleges are making moves that are confusing, stressful, and potentially lucrative. Plagued by severe budget cuts and a sharp decline in international-student enrollment, institutions including Harvard University, Stanford University, Rice University, and Duke University have admitted dozens of students off their wait lists just weeks…

LinkedIn announces list of 50 best US colleges for long-term career success: Princeton leads, with Duke, UPenn, MIT and Cornell in top five – Times of India

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LinkedIn has released its first-ever Top Colleges 2025 list, ranking 50 US undergraduate institutions that deliver the strongest long-term career outcomes for their graduates. The rankings are based on the platform’s analysis of alumni career trajectories, job placement, graduate school enrolment, network strength, and advancement into senior leadership roles. Princeton University claimed the top spot,…

Elite US universities including Columbia, Duke and Penn accused of colluding to hike tuition through early decision scheme – Times of India

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The promise of a fair shot at higher education has long been a cornerstone of the American academic ideal. Yet a new lawsuit contends that some of America’s most revered universities have been quietly undermining that principle, not through admissions quotas or test score thresholds, but by using the very mechanism designed to give students…

Duke University’s healthcare faces $108 million federal funding freeze amid discrimination probe under Trump administration – Times of India

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Trump freezes $108 million federal funds for Duke Health amid discrimination probe. The Trump administration has frozen $108 million in federal funding allocated to Duke Health, citing allegations of systemic racial discrimination across Duke University’s healthcare and academic systems. The move intensifies the administration’s ongoing crackdown on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher…

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Duke University under federal scrutiny for alleged discriminatory practices

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The US Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Duke University and its law journal over allegations the school used race and ethnicity as factors in selecting journal members. “This investigation is based on recent reporting alleging that Duke University discriminates on the bases of race, color, and/or national origin by using…

After Ivy League layoffs, Duke becomes the latest elite university in the US to cut hundreds of jobs – Times of India

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The wave of job cuts at America’s top universities is no longer limited to the Ivy League. After recent staff reductions at institutions like Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton, Duke University has now announced layoffs and voluntary separations affecting more than 600 positions. The move places Duke firmly within a growing list of elite institutions that…

Essentially Ellington Keeps Duke Ellington Very Much Alive

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In a dressing room behind the stage in the Metropolitan Opera House, Wynton Marsalis, the trumpeter and educator, intently watched a live feed of the big band representing the Osceola County School for the Arts, from Kissimmee, Fla. They were playing Dizzy Gillespie’s “Things to Come,” a piece that can expose any weaknesses in a…

Cooper Flagg, Duke searching for answers after fateful Final Four collapse

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SAN ANTONIO — From their seats seven rows behind Duke’s bench, Ralph and Kelly Flagg had the perfect vantage point of the moment everything turned to dust. With eight seconds left in Saturday’s national semifinal against No. 1 Houston, their son Cooper rose up for the turnaround jumper that legacies are made of. Sink it,…

Working against Duke, Cooper Flagg and time, Houston concocts a surreal Final Four comeback

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SAN ANTONIO — J’Wan Roberts extended his hands. Settle down, he begged. Yes, this was impossible. Yes, this whole swirling, bizarre night was on the verge of alchemy. Yes, this was about to be the night that Houston pulled off a comeback so stunning, so jarring, that it will take everyone — specifically those souls…

Haters guide to the Final Fo— nah, scrap that. Duke leaves no room to hate anything else

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One of the most thrilling and important games in the history of this tournament that doesn’t get mentioned enough happened on March 30, 1991: Duke’s 79-77 upset of previously unbeaten UNLV at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. Or maybe it’s been mentioned enough and decades have passed. But I feel like I see Grant Hill…