Since 2007, Jacqueline Looney, former senior associate dean for the Graduate School at Duke, kept a small index card labeled “JL’s Long-term Goals” in her wallet. The first goal listed on the
Looney has led the development of many resources and programs to support graduate students and made notable contributions to the recruitment, support, and retention of graduate students from historically underrepresented groups.
Before the famed "First Five" Black undergraduate students enrolled at Duke University in the fall of 1963, the Board of Trustees took the first step toward desegregation with a decision years in the making.