"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 institutional responses to policy changes have become more prominent than ever.""
""In this moment in particular, questions about Duke and current events are being answered by Frank Tramble and his team," Edmonds wrote. "If you are contacted by the media about overarching issues confronting the University, please forward the requests to [Sanford's Senior Public Relations Manager Matt LoJacono] and me.""
""It was pretty amazing that [the reporter] actually got no commentary from Duke officials and Duke faculty," Neal continued. "Even if it wasn't overtly communicated to the community, the community understood the stakes of that mode of inquiry.""
Duke University is facing a $108 million federal research funding freeze and multiple investigations by the Trump administration. Administrators advised faculty to avoid speaking to media about institutional operations and to forward requests about overarching university issues to central communications staff. Jenny Edmonds urged faculty to continue engaging the media about their research while warning that media focus on institutional responses to policy changes has intensified. Some departments echoed similar guidance despite no universitywide mandate. Campus leaders also praised faculty for declining to comment to a New York Times reporter probing scrutiny of Duke's diversity programs.
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