Duke University

The Office of Undergraduate Education states it "recruits a richly diverse student body reflecting a broad spectrum of national origins, races, ethnicities, religions, socio-economic backgrounds, physical abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities."

The University is implementing “Race-neutral” admissions strategies such as removing standardized test requirements, which "heavily favor white applicants."

In response to the Supreme Court's Affirmative Action decision, the University released a statement that reads, "We remain steadfastly committed to cultivating a racially and socially equitable Duke to the fullest extent permitted by the law."

New Anti-Racist education will be implemented for faculty, staff, and students.

The university "incorporated racial equity sessions into new student orientation."

First-year students are required to complete a "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging" module.

Students will be required to learn the “nature of structural racism and inequity, with special focus on our own regional and institutional legacies.”

The English Department announced that "a new diversity requirement has been added to the English major." The chair of the committee on anti-racism said, “It is now written into the structure of our major that no student majoring in English will graduate without serious study of writers of color and/or literary methods imbued with anti-racism."

Per the General Education requirements, undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences must take two Social Sciences classes. Students may take courses "In African and African American studies; cultural anthropology... sociology; and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies" among others to fulfill the requirement.

Students in the School of Education are taught "Cross-Cultural Competency (appreciation of diversity)" and "Civic Responsibility (to be agents for social change)."

The Office of Undergraduate Education will, "Hire external consultants to provide training to staff" and "Invest in anti-racism training for all OUE staff."

The university "implemented implicit bias training for hiring managers."

$16 million will be invested from the Duke Endowment for anti-racist initiatives.

Through the Duke Endowment, "the Provost has funded 17 projects focused on Reckoning with Race, Racism and the History of the American South, all led by Duke faculty members and many including staff, students and community members."

Full tuition grants were made available to "low-income students from the Carolinas" as of Fall 2023, which the University President hopes will have a "knock-on effect on diversity in admissions and recruitment."

The Social Sciences Department focuses on "research addressing important global cultural themes related to gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, citizenship/nationality, social exclusion, social inequality, social movements, diaspora, health, religion, and artistic expression, among other factors."

Duke University faculty and experts discussed policing reform and “what the police killing of Tyre Nichols means for public safety and the police reform movement in the US.”

All police officers at the Duke University Police Department are required to attend "Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Bias" training.

The Police Department appointed two officers to serve as "Diversity Liaisons," who have "specific responsibility for focusing on marginalized communities."

The English Department, "established a ad-hoc Committee on Anti-Racism, which 'has set up a series of workshops this spring on issues of race and academic fields, and will bring recommendations for concrete action items' to the English faculty later in the spring semester," according to the Duke Chronicle.

The university will offer a course called “The Invention and Consequences of Race," which will "provide foundational knowledge about and explore the origins and meanings of the concept of race."

The Office of Undergraduate Education established an Anti-Racism Working Group

The University offers a Diversity & Inclusion in Human Resources Management course. It covers "Assessing Diversity and Inclusion," "Hiring and Retaining Diverse Talent," "Fostering an Inclusive Culture," "Aspects of an Inclusive Culture Inclusive," and "HR Leadership Inclusive Engagement and Development."

The Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies hosts "Anti-Racism Pedagogy Forums" where faculty can "share antiracist methodologies and strategies already in use in instructors’ fields," "to identify opportunities to incorporate antiracist pedagogies into teaching practices so that [the school] ensures equitable, safe learning opportunities for all students," and "to identify areas in the department's curricula in which antiracist pedagogies and approaches to disciplinary content can be implemented or augmented."

Jarvis Dorm was renamed as West Residence Hall, due to the namesake’s “racist history”.

Trinity College of Arts and Sciences started a faculty anti-racism committee.

The Office of Undergraduate Education has formed an "Anti-racism Working Group", which will aim to " affirm, develop, and strengthen racial equity in OUE by continuously challenging our existing systems and implementing new policies and practices that provide our BIPOC community with the infrastructure to thrive at Duke."

The Office for Institutional Equity at Duke University offers educational opportunities on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

DiversifyIT is a “staff-led, volunteer organization at Duke University sponsored by the Office of Information Technology and Duke IT leadership” that works to create a more diverse and inclusive IT climate at Duke.

The Duke Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program released a statement on Affirmative Action in College Admissions which says "We unequivocally support race-conscious admissions and believe that affirmative action is an important tool in remedying racial inequality."

The University updated its anti-discrimination policy to ban "discrimination or harassment based on hair texture or hairstyles commonly associated with a particular race" because of "bias against Black women with natural hairstyles."