Students in HLP Associate Director Lalita Kaligotla’s PPS270 Lead the Way Durham service-learning course created a digital timeline about the history of Duke’s Silent Vigil. After Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, Duke students launched a protest and vigil to commemorate his legacy and demand change to University policies. The students—sophomores Jaliwa Albright, and Jeremy Carballo Piñeda and first-years Robby Phillips, Kalylee Rodriguez, and Pei Yi Zhou—worked with materials at the University… read more about LEAD THE WAY DURHAM students create interactive timeline on history of Duke Silent Vigil »
"During my time in high school, and as an undergraduate at Duke, I built my own philosophy: Why be useful elsewhere when there are useful things for me to do here? I view my college degree as a way to bring what I’ve learned home." --Frances Beroset (Trinity '19, Psychology & Literature Major / Education Minor). Francis is now working for College Advising Corps in Sanford NC and discusses the value of working locally in this Higher Education Works article. read more about Frances Beroset featured in Higher Ed Works »
To commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, a reflection “wall” was erected in the entrance way of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature in the Old Chem Building. The wall, which will be up for the month of November, is meant to be an interactive space, where individuals can reflect and comment on what walls mean to them—whether within the context of the Berlin Wall, or walls in general. During the month, members of the community—students,… read more about Duke German Department Commemorates 30th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall »
Latina Voices/Voces de mujeres latinas is the final project for the service-learning course SPANISH 308S: Latino/a Voices in Duke, Durham and Beyond. The goal of this bilingual project is to shed light on the life and work of significant Latina women in the United States. "We want to celebrate women who fight for human rights and equality and against discrimination and poverty, as well as those who have made an impact in their local communities and nationwide. We hope their stories, and… read more about Latina Voices/Voces de Mujeres Latinas »
As a professor, I have the power to help shape student experiences. So it’s good to ask: What kinds of doors do I want to open for them? For decades now people have talked about theory versus practice. That’s boring and it’s wrong. We sometimes do a disservice when we present students with a binary — the classroom versus community engagement. I’m more interested in how you make sure both spaces are influenced by each other. How can the classroom and the community work in conversation? -Prof. Adam Rosenblatt Death, Burial… read more about New Course! Death, Burial, and Justice (ICS 283), taught by Prof. Adam Rosenblatt »
Joan Clifford, Duke Service-Learning Faculty Consultant and Director of Community-Based Language Initiatives and Kimmie Garner, Assistant Director of Duke Service-Learning, pose by their poster, displayed at this year’s IARSLCE (International Association for Research in Service-Learning) in Albuquerque, NM. This poster highlights how the Indiana Campus Compact virtual course, “Best Practices in Assessing Community Engagement: Assessing Student Learning Outcomes” created a platform for a Duke staff and… read more about Best Practices in Assessing Community Engagement: Assessing Student Learning Outcomes »
What’s the question that you never tire of asking and that has, over time, continued to animate your curiosity? On October 24th, Amy Anderson, David Malone, and Matt Serra helped IARSLCE participants navigate this question in a session called “Service-learning in the Life and Career Course: Tugging on Ariadne’s Thread”. The undergraduate experience is often a fragmented landscape of general education, concentration, electives, co-curricular activities, and experiences in “the real world” beyond campus. “What’s Your… read more about What's Your Question? »
Durham is a preservation town. Our favorite places have age, patina, and authenticity. They tell our story – one of scrappy entrepreneurs, creative reinvention, and stubborn optimism. -Excerpt from the Durham Preservation website. Visit our Context & Connections website to see resources such the History of Civic Engagement at Duke, Getting to Know Duke & Durham, and Articles, Guides & Resources for Service-Learning. read more about Deepen your knowledge of Durham and explore connections to your teaching, research, and service »
Each Fall, Duke Service-Learning hosts Context and Connections, an "engaged" bus tour of Durham for new Duke faculty and those interested in deepening their own knowledge of and connections to the Durham community and in exploring connections with their teaching, research, and service. In this photo, tour participants gather around Mayme Webb-Bledsoe (Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership) as she shares the stories behind the documentary photo exhibit “Meet Me at Lyon Park: Snapshots of our History”. For Webb-… read more about Mayme Webb-Bledsoe shares stories about Lyon Park at Context & Connections »
Service-learning courses provide opportunities to get to know Durham (Beyond Downtown), make a positive difference in the community, apply what you're learning in the classroom to contemporary issues, and develop cross-cultural awareness, critical thinking, problem solving, and leadership skills. read more about Get to Know Durham: Take a Service-Learning Course in Spring 2020 »
In celebration of our annual theme, #MakingPlaceMatter, Duke Service-Learning wants to hear your reflections on Durham developed through community-engaged experiences — through poetry! Inspired by a partnership between Kwame Alexander and NPR, who were in turn inspired by George Ella Lyon’s poem of the same name, we are hoping that you and your students will join us in creating our own crowd-sourced Where I’m From poem. Here's how you can help: Invite a class reflection on… read more about Help Duke Service-Learning Create a Crowd-Sourced Poem! »
Duke Service-Learning facilitates the official labeling of service-learning courses in DukeHub, working with the Registrar's Office and the Trinity College office of Curriculum & Course Development. All those who teach academic undergraduate courses at Duke are eligible to apply. You may request the service-learning label as early as you like, but to ensure that your request is processed before book bagging opens, please submit requests for fall courses by spring break, and requests for spring courses by fall break… read more about Request the Service-Learning label! »
As part of the current exhibition, Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Durham-based photographer Titus Brooks Heagins, MFA, visited Durham School of the Arts to conduct a series of workshops with Amber Santibañez’s visual art high school students. Heagins, a Duke alumnus (T ’89), is among the more than 50 photographers featured in Southbound, now on view at Duke’s Power Plant Gallery in Durham and the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NC State. Heagins’ three photos selected… read more about Southbound: Titus Brooks Heagins Visits DSA »
Be sure and visit the Durham Museum of History for “Nuevo Espíritu de Durham: New Spirit of Durham”! This exhibit will examine Durham’s rapidly growing Latino population, its diversity, challenges and triumphs, and its future as a well-established part of the Durham community. Key topics to be explored will be immigration, building a community support system, developing resources, and activism which will be depicted primarily through the personal perspectives of individual community members. This exhibit will be… read more about Nuevo Espíritu de Durham: New Spirit of Durham »
Invite your students to join you on one of the Preservation Durham Walking Tours, leaving from the Durham Farmer’s Market Saturday mornings from April – November. Ask students to co-create a Community Asset Map with current or potential community partners, giving students tools to identify strengths and resources in our Durham communities. Check out the virtual resources of the Durham County Library’s North Carolina Collection. Find A Short History of Durham presentation on their website, or the archives of The… read more about Ideas for #MakingPlaceMatter in S-L/C-E Courses »
If you ever stop to think about it, there seems to be an unlimited number of phrases and expressions that include the words place or space. My place or your place, all over the place, out of place, no place like home. Cyberspace, headspace, accessible space, safe space, brave space, personal space. Place and space are essential to knowing who we are. They are directional in the sense that they serve as points along pathways determining where we are at any given moment. But places and spaces are much more than directional,… read more about 2019-20: Making Place Matter »
Community Impact Student Award Nomination deadline: October 4 NC Campus Compact Community Impact Awards recognize an outstanding, full-time undergraduate or graduate student service leader from each member campus. Impact Award recipients should demonstrate commitment to partnering with others to address community issues, ability to lead and inspire fellow students, and sustainable impact in their area of work. Each member campus selects its own Impact Award recipient. Nominate a CISA recipient read more about Nominate an Outstanding Student for a Community Engagement Award »
From Jeanette's nominator, Professor Jehanne Gheith: "Jeanette has been mentoring service-learning students from my courses since my very first Service Learning class about ten years ago. For the last three and a half years, she has accepted at least two students from my Medical Ethics and End of Life Care courses each semester and has mentored them so well that they continue to stay in touch with her long after the placement has ended. Jeanette Stokes founded RCWMS 41 years ago. Students benefit greatly from… read more about Jeanette Stokes: 2019 Community Partner Alden Award Winner »
It is a great pleasure to nominate Professor Kevin Caves for the Betsy Alden Outstanding Faculty Service-Learning Award in recognition of his ongoing commitments to the ideals of service-learning. Kevin teaches Biomedical Engineering (BME) 460L: Designing Devices for People with Disabilities as a capstone senior design service-learning course for biomedical engineers. In it, students are matched with a community member to develop and tailor assistive technology projects for specific clients, clients Kevin recruits through… read more about Kevin Caves: 2019 Faculty Recipient of the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award »
I have spent my entire Duke career with a large part of my intellectual and ethical home in the service-learning department. When I arrived at Duke, I planned on becoming a social worker because I knew that I loved people, and that I wanted to be someone who helped people deal with problems in their lives, but I hadn’t had many chances to do that. I began my service-learning career my very first semester at Duke, almost by accident, when I joined the Knowledge in Service of Society FOCUS cluster. In that first year in… read more about Betsy Alden Award Winner Frances Beroset Reflects on Service-Learning »
Sean Bissell, Zoe King, Sahil Sandhu, and Michelle Wong display their research at Duke Visible Thinking. The group collaborated with the Duke Cancer Institute and the Duke Institute for Health Innovation to examine how to better facilitate the integration of electronic patient reported outcomes (ePROs) into clinician workflow. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) help providers proactively assess patients’ symptoms through validated questionnaires. Yet despite the known benefits of using ePRO (Electronic Patient-Reported… read more about Sean Bissell, Zoe King, Sahil Sandhu, and Michelle Wong display their research at Visible Thinking »
The Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Awards recognize one graduating senior, one faculty member, and one community partner for their commitment to the ideals of service‐learning. This year Duke senior Frances Beroset (T'19), Duke BME faculty member Kevin Caves, and community partner (and Duke alumna) Jeanette Stokes from the Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South (RCWMS) were honored with the award! read more about Congratulations to the 2019 Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award winners! »
Critical service-learning is an approach to civic learning that is attentive to social change, works to redistribute power, and strives to develop authentic relationships. But does participation in service-learning contribute to the long-term greater good, even after graduation? On Friday, March 29th, service-learning alumni offered their reflections on the impact service-learning has had on their life choices, future education, career shifts, and leadership in civic engagement since… read more about Duke service-learning alumni share the impact service-learning has had on their lives and careers »
The Betsy Alden Award recipients were honored at the In The Spotlight ceremony on April 16th. In The Spotlight recognizes individuals and organizations whose influence and achievements have made a significant impact on University life and beyond. The event is a community-wide celebration of leadership and inspiration. The following individuals received the Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award for their commitment to the ideals of… read more about Alden Award Winners Honored at In the Spotlight »
Kimmie Garner, Assistant Director of Duke Service-Learning, explores growing our capacity to listen in order to deepen relationships that support community-driven change in a recent article published on the Duke Office of Civic Engagement blog: While listening with our whole selves is something we develop over the course of a lifetime of reflection and practice, I’ve noticed through some intentional shifts that I am becoming more conscious of the power of speaking less and listening more. This has become… read more about Partnerships in Civic Engagement: The Power of Listening »
Ten faculty members and advisers receiving Undergraduate Teaching, Leadership & Diversity Awards from the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences were honored at a reception April 11 in Perkins Library. The awards are given annually by the dean’s office in recognition of exceptionally strong teachers working across the college. This year, Trinity’s Arts & Sciences Council led the nomination and selection process for several categories. David Malone was awarded for Excellence in Advising, which honors faculty… read more about David Malone awarded for Excellence in Advising by Trinity College of Arts & Sciences »
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences is calling for submissions for the Brodhead Service Award, presented each spring by the Trinity College Board of Visitors. The President Richard H. Brodhead Award is given annually to a Trinity College of Arts & Sciences undergraduate student, alumnus/a, or faculty/staff member who has demonstrated exemplary service to or in support of the school. A nominee could be an engaged volunteer or board member; a student who launched a program, led an initiative, or held a… read more about Call for nominations: Richard Brodhead Service Award »
Duke Service-Learning visited Partners for Youth Opportunity (PYO) to listen and learn about how they partner with communities to provide Durham youth with opportunities to connect, develop, and contribute through mentoring, employment, and educational support. Partners for Youth Opportunity was created to more effectively address the growing “opportunity gap” resulting from the chronic disconnection of Durham youth from economic and educational opportunities. They … read more about #ListenFirst: Partners for Youth Opportunity »
Students from the service-learning course “Nonprofit Cultural Institutions (THEATR 310S)” participated in a training to prepare them to develop verbal descriptions of artwork for a recorded audio tour. Students were challenged to consider how to best describe paintings, drawings, and sculpture for patrons of the Nasher Museum that could not see the works. Several visually impaired consultants from the community provided critiques to the students ranging from how students referenced colors to cautioning on how to describe… read more about Service-learning project from Nonprofit Cultural Institutions (THEATRST 310S) partners with community members with visual impairments »
Students from Professor Kisha Daniel's service-learning course "Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop (EDUC 290S)" and community partners from the Boys and Girls Club of Durham and Orange County pose for a group photo in front of the “Greensboro Four” at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro. Also pictured is the co-founder of the museum, Melvin Alston. A native of Durham, he attended NCCU and is currently serving as a Guilford County Commissioner. After the tour, students and community partners… read more about Students from the "Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop (EDUC 290S)" visit the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro »