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 […]
Category: Blog Posts
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 […]
Duke student honored for community service
ELON, NC – Duke University student Anne Harshbarger has been recognized for outstanding leadership and service by North Carolina Campus Compact, a statewide network of colleges and universities with a shared commitment to civic engagement. Harshbarger is a recipient of the network’s Community Impact Award, which honors one student leader at each school. Harshbarger is […]
Building and Sustaining Momentum as Engaged Scholars
“As scholars, we often find ourselves being asked to separate teaching from scholarship from service,” says Dr. Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Thompson Writing Program and founder of the Faculty Write Program. The reality, however, is that all of those components are inextricably linked, as experience in one sphere enhances perspective […]
The Scholar as Citizen
Guest post by Deondra Rose, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy As an assistant professor of public policy and political science at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, I spend my time researching and teaching courses related to the ways in which politics and policy shape each other. My […]
Rethinking Accomplishment
Guest post by Adria Kinney, T’13 | Assistant Director for Training and Student Development, DukeEngage Summer, 2011. “What do you feel you accomplished?” I held the wrinkled sheet of notebook paper, considering the question I had scribbled a few months prior. Abigail, my DukeEngage site coordinator, had instructed my fellow program participants and I […]
Female Empowerment: A Force to be Reckoned With, Everywhere
Guest post by Olivia McAuliffe, T’21 | DukeEngage Cape Town 2018 Wathint’ abafazi, wathint’ imbokodo. This saying, meaning ‘you strike the woman, you strike the rock,’ was popularized in South Africa during the Women’s March of 1956 and it stands true today. I was fortunate enough to work under and walk alongside women […]
Shaping Multilingual Global Citizens
Guest post by Joan Clifford and Deb Reisinger | Romance Studies When we think about culture shock, many of us imagine a disorienting experience that occurs while traveling to another country. For students, who both study and work abroad in increasing numbers, culture shock may occur when they don’t fully understand a country’s cultural practices, […]
Community Health Engagement in Durham
Guest post by Sarah Beaverson | Duke Chapel PathWays Fellow, Duke Community and Family Medicine My understanding of community health initially stemmed from my global health education. This past May, I graduated from Duke University with a double major in Biology and Global Health. A multidisciplinary approach underlined the Global Health major’s curriculum. Classes like […]