However, there was always a single faculty of Arts and Sciences responsible for undergraduate and graduate instruction.
[1] Former dean Valerie Ashby, professor of chemistry, left her second term early to become President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2022.
In the beginning of the twenty-first century, Duke renovated the undergraduate residential college experience.
All undergraduate freshman at Duke since the merger of the Women's College in 1972 live on the east part of campus.
After their freshman year, undergraduates have the ability to rush certain "houses" within the residential college system, located on the west part of campus.
Although similar to the residential housing systems at Yale and Harvard, Duke's is distinct due to the tradition of freshman and upperclassmen living on separately designated parts of campus.