Guest post by Sandra Martinez-Zuniga | Assistant Director, Duke University Career Center That is one of my favorite questions to ask my students at Duke. I ask it because Durham is the home of Duke University and because so many exciting things are happening here. I also ask this question to help my students reflect on something very […]
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Welcome (back) to Duke and Durham
Leslie Parkins, Ed.D. | Assistant Vice President and Director for Civic Engagement, Durham and Community Affairs On behalf of the Office of Durham and Community Affairs, we welcome new students to Duke and to Durham! For those students who are returning, welcome back to campus and our broader community. The energy of the campus is […]
Humanizing The Narrative
Guest post by Joshua Salaam | Muslim Chaplain, Muslim Life at Duke I get frustrated every time I vote in an election. I park my car and begin the political gauntlet walk. I accept all flyers from the extended hands, none of which will sway my decision. But what frustrates me is the flyer encouraging […]
Behind the Bio
Guest post by Bibi Gnagno | Student Development Coordinator, Duke University Women’s Center This year, the Duke Women’s Center invited Jaimie Woo, Duke University alumna and former policy analyst in the Office of the Vice President Joe Biden, to campus. Jaimie spoke during our Annual WomC Awards in which we honor female identified people’s contributions […]
Partnerships in Civic Engagement: The Power of Listening
Guest post by Kimmie Garner, M.S.W. | Assistant Director, Duke Service-Learning I returned to the field of civic engagement when I began my position as Assistant Director of Duke Service-Learning in August 2018. I was a student organizer in service-learning during all four of my undergraduate years at UNC. Since graduating eight years ago, I […]
Inaccessibility of Civic Engagement
Guest post by Rasheca Logendran, T’20 In the busy first 5 minutes of my class I hastily scribbled on the large piece of paper that served as the whiteboard in my makeshift classroom a question for our icebreaker activity. It was another June day at the Freedom Project, and as a volunteer teacher I had […]
Cultivating Community
Guest post by Dielle McMillan, M.S.W. | Program Coordinator for Merit Scholarships, Office of Undergraduate Scholars & Fellows The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” – Coretta Scott King I studied communities throughout my undergraduate and graduate career. I received the “Community Leader of the year” […]
“Do you need help?”
One Sunday afternoon in December, I sat in a circle with fifteen 6- to 9-year-old Girl Scouts as we decided what we would do for the final step of our “Leadership Journey”. The girls had spent the last few months learning how to care for themselves, their families, and their fellow scouts, earning a key […]
Centering Black, Latinx and POC Histories, Communities and Voices in Education
Guest post by Emily Chávez | Associate Director, Center for Multicultural Affairs At nineteen years old, just after my first year of college, I found myself in a classroom in a North Philadelphia elementary school, sitting in a circle with about 10 nine- and ten-year-old students, all of whom were Latinx or African American. Every […]
A Different Kind of Planning
Guest post by Ana Gomez | AmeriCorps VISTA for America Reads/America Counts at Duke University A large part of my role at Duke is to put on a series of sessions for Spanish speaking parents for a program called Learning Juntos. As a recent Carolina graduate, I thought I would be able to use skills […]