Empower the Boldest Thinkers
Duke is the place where the world’s brightest minds go to meet the most important challenges. We recognize that their accomplishments comprise the true measure of our institutional excellence.
Goals
- Recruit and support extraordinary faculty, staff, and students by building endowments to support faculty chairs and expanding financial aid for students
- Provide them the resources to conduct cutting-edge research
- Identify the world’s most pressing problems to address
- +Diverse experiences and teams
> 100
New faculty hires in 2021
46
Merit scholarships awarded to the Class of 2026
$800 million
spent on Duke research each year
Transform Teaching and Learning
Duke will rethink our undergraduate, graduate, and professional education strategies to create innovative, team- based pedagogies and curricula, to take advantage of new technological opportunities, and to build a robust and responsive learning community that includes everyone.
Goals
- Invest in interdisciplinary, team-based and problem-focused teaching
- Leverage faculty research in the curriculum
- Center the liberal arts in a new, innovative learning ecosystem
- Facilitate risk-taking and lower the barriers to collaboration
- Offer students integrated intellectual pathways and deepen their engagement with research
53%
Undergraduates graduate with research experience
437,989
Unique academic combinations
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New Classes
Renew Campus Community
Working to ensure that all who call Duke home share a lived experience that is increasingly inclusive, equitable, engaging, healthy and vibrant. Duke seeks to be a diverse and stimulating campus that promotes personal growth among all of our students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Goals
- Cultivate a strong, healthy, inclusive, and respectful community of learners and doers
- Make racial and social equity the foundation of the Duke community
- Give students the opportunity to explore a wide range of ideas and develop healthy lifestyles throughout their time on campus
- Offer students the resources and support they need to truly thrive at Duke, including a comprehensive wellness and student-health program
- Seek to make Duke a more environmentally sustainable university
7
QuadEx Faculty Fellows integrate academic experience with residential life
30%
Increase in the number of Black faculty since 2018
1MW
Of solar photovoltaics and hot water
Partner with Purpose
Strengthening relationships in Durham and serve as a collaborative catalyst in our region to our research ecosystem while improving community health, housing, and education.
Goals
- Demonstrate our commitment to Durham and our role in improving the quality of life for our region
- Prioritize the needs of our neighbors, particularly those from marginalized and low-income communities
- Improve public well-being through creative and cooperative problem-solving
- Invest in public education, nutrition and food security, economic empowerment, nonprofit capacity, and affordable housing
- Lead a renewed research ecosystem in the Triangle
50
Durham community groups funded (2020-21)
70%
Duke
startups headquarted in NC
745
Civic Engagment Partners (2020-21)
Engage a Global Network of Alumni
Activating our alumni and engaging our friends to create new opportunities for growth and discovery to advance our educational, research, and service missions.
Goals
- Offer alumni continual educational and professional development throughout their lives
- Create new and powerful pathways for continuing engagement within and across our global network long after students complete their degree programs
- Foster a Duke without walls, investing continuously in developing ourselves and each other to reach our full potential
185,056
Active alumni
50+
Online courses taught by Duke faculty for alumni
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