In spring 2024, Duke’s inequality studies minor drew
150 students across its three core courses. Now, a year later, professors and students are unsure whether the program will stay afloat. Both its faculty leads have left the University and no courses are being offered in the spring.
The minor was established in 2020 as a joint collaboration between the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and the history department to equip students with the knowledge and skills to understand the causes and consequences of inequality from a range of methods from the social sciences…