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Shruti Desai (she, her, hers) currently serves as the Associate Vice President of Student Affairs for Student Engagement at Duke University where she leads a dynamic team committed to identity consciousness through programming and storytelling, leadership, fraternity and sorority life, professional development, and marketing and communications. Prior to that, she served as the Chief of Staff for the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to her role at WashU she served Assistant Vice President at McKendree University in Lebanon, IL where she oversaw Title IX, Counseling Services, and Residential Life. Shruti held professional roles in Residence Life at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Kansas, and Texas Tech University.
Shruti has served as adjunct faculty at the George R. Warren Brown School of Social Work and Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis and the co-chair elect of NASPA’s Asian Pacific Islander Knowledge Community. Most recently, she co-authored Identity-Conscious Supervision in Student Affairs: Building Relationship & Transforming Institutions, which was published by Routledge.
Shruti’s research examines resilience in women of color in Senior Student Affairs Officer roles. Shruti has worked to lead systemic change for LGBT and individuals of color for students and professional staff. Shruti presents regionally and nationally on identity conscious supervision, creating supportive cultures for marginalized identities, building a culture of assessment, and resilience. Shruti is an alumnus of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI) as well as a past faculty and intern with SJTI. Her passion lies around getting beyond the false binary of race in America, examining identity as intersections of power and privilege and data as storytelling.
Congratulations to the parents and families of the Class of 2029 and Transfer students! Welcome to the Duke family! As the parent or family member of a new-to-Duke student, you are likely experiencing many moments of both joy and anxiety. Having your student leave home, often for the first time, brings on an era of both great transition and separation. Yet, although your role may be about to change, your work as a parent is far from done. While ultimately your student must be left to make their own decisions and learn from their consequences, your services are still needed….
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Dawna is a dedicated social worker, student affairs professional, and community advocate. A New Jersey native, Dawna has lived and worked in North Carolina since 2013. Dawna arrived at Duke in 2021 and served as the Director of the Mary Lou Williams Center before assuming her current role. With over 10 years of student affairs experience, she has worked in crisis and case management, housing and residential life, and multicultural and first-generation student support. Dawna has served as a faculty member in the Higher Education Case Management Association’s (HECMA) foundations program and as an active NASPA member. An engaged Chapel…
East Campus: Residents in Giles, Pegram, Southgate, and Trinity have card readers with a PIN pad on their room doors. West Campus: Residents in Craven and Crowell Quads have card readers with a PIN pad on their room doors. These readers require a DukeCard PIN in addition to your DukeCard or mobile credential (Apple or Android device). Hollows Quad suites are equipped with PIN pad card readers on the suite’s entry door and card readers on all room doors. The room card readers do not have a PIN pad or require a PIN. Duke University faculty, staff and students are eligible to add their…
Dr. Robert Satloff (T’83) is one of America’s foremost experts on Arab and Islamic politics and U.S. Middle East policy. Since 1993, he has served as Executive Director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a non-partisan ‘idea factory’ focused on the political, security, military, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of the Middle East.
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Dean Deb oversees Housing and Residence Life, including both professional and student residential staff, Housing Assignments, our first-year and upperclass campus offices, as well as our connections to many residentially based academic programs. She has a B.A. in Health Education from Montclair State University and an M.Ed. in Higher Education with an emphasis in Counseling from the University of Georgia. Deb has a passion for equity and inclusion work and most recently was part of two research efforts; “The Duke Social Relationships Project” (DSRP) and the “You @ Duke” Resilience study. She helped create the residentially based Sophomore Year Experience…
Our Team Members Housing and Residence Life (HRL) manages all aspects of the university’s three-year undergraduate residency requirement. Residential programs are designed to build positive communities that value learning, create new opportunities for faculty engagement, and generate positive social connections. HRL, student residents, and others in the Duke community develop and maintain environments that support classroom learning and stir students to seek learning opportunities in the world around them. We promote opportunities for students to connect with others and develop a strong and enduring sense of belonging; and intentionally provide opportunities for students to grow and develop, especially as they wrestle…
Jewish Life at Duke has been enriched this year by the addition of two hand-crafted chanukyiot…