Duke Asked Some Faculty to Avoid Talking to Media

Duke is facing a $108 million federal funding freeze and multiple federal investigations.

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As Duke University navigates a $108 million federal research funding freeze and multiple investigations by the Trump administration, administrators want faculty to avoid talking to the media about institutional operations, The Chronicle , Duke’s student newspaper reported Monday .

According to an August email obtained by The Chronicle , Jenny Edmonds, associate dean of communications and marketing at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy, encouraged faculty to “continue to engage with the media to disseminate [their] research as [they] have always done,” while also cautioning that “media attention to institutions of higher education and discussions about institut