Out & About

“The active, engaged, passionate parents make a true partnership,” says Channa Pickett. She is the director of Enlaces, a youth outreach program launched in October 2009 by Duke’s Office of Durham and Regional Affairs and nonprofit organization El Centro Hispano. The strengths-based program serves grades fourth through seventh at six […]

Duke University’s annual Make A Difference Day, sponsored by Duke’s Office of Durham and Regional Affairs took place on a sunny October Saturday at the Ronald McDonald House of Durham and E.K. Powe Elementary. The service day focused on connecting university students to their surrounding community of Durham, establishing a […]

How might a local high school make use of a flying, camera-bearing quadcopter? Could Skype offer a novel way for students to connect with books? What kind of connections could be made between Duke students and an elementary school technology club? Tackling these questions is all in a day’s work […]

Anne Yeung always loved her experience as a Duke student, but during her sophomore year, she began to feel something was missing. “Being engaged in the community around me has always been important to me,” Anne says. “But I hadn’t yet found an opportunity to practice that at Duke in […]

When Duke University kicked off its Southside Housing Incentive Program last year, the goal was to encourage Duke employees to become some of the first stable homeowners in the revitalized Southside neighborhood. The initiative, offered to employees meeting certain income qualifications, was one of several ways that Duke partnered with […]

Izzy Salazar, age 13, can see it in her mind’s eye, little John Hope Franklin, age 7, crying on an Oklahoma train platform. The boy who would go on to be a legendary historian and civil rights advocate had been kicked off a train, along with his mother and sister, […]

North Carolina in 2012 adopted the rigorous Common Core curriculum standards for all public schools and charter schools. When the State Board of Education released the results of standardized tests from that first year of Common Core, they revealed a dramatic drop in performance by students, schools and districts. The […]