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- ↑ "Admins to submit establishment proposal for Duke Kunshan University next week". The Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ↑ "Building DKU: From a decade of obstacles to its first undergraduate class". The Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
- ↑ "Duke University provost stepping down next June". Winston-Salem Journal. Associated Press. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
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