Many different programs I'd like to see us incorporate at Lake Atitlan:
DukeEngage Goes Green
http://sustainability.duke.edu/carbon_offsets/DukeEngage.html
o Carbon Footprint
In collaboration with Sustainable Duke and the Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative, DukeEngage is offering students the opportunity to counter their carbon footprint through the purchase of a share of a North Carolina-based project for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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What is DukeEngage's Mission?
DukeEngage empowers students to address critical human needs through immersive service, in the process transforming students, advancing the University’s educational mission, and providing meaningful assistance to communities in the U.S. and abroad.
How does the program work?
DukeEngage provides funding for Duke undergraduates who wish to pursue an immersive (minimum of eight weeks) service experience by meeting a community need locally, domestically or internationally. Thanks to funding from The Duke Endowment and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DukeEngage funded and supported 350 students in both group programs and independent projects during the summer of 2009. Since the program began in 2007, more than 800 Duke students have participated.
Where is DukeEngage located on campus?
DukeEngage has its offices, along with others who comprise the Duke Center for Civic Engagement, in Smith Warehouse, located just off of East Campus at 114 South Buchanan Blvd., Bays 7 and 8, Second Floor. (At this time, the best way to enter is on the north side of the building in an entrance leading into Bay 8; the DukeEngage reception area is in Bay 7.)
What sorts of projects take place?
Students are involved in a vast range of civic engagement activities, including environmental advocacy, community outreach, global health, education, social justice and more. For example, in the past three years, students have:
• launched mentoring and school enrichment programs;
• created community support initiatives;
• designed health education and outreach programs
• improved a community’s health information infrastructure;
• produced environmental education documentaries;
• developed microfinance opportunities for disadvantaged women and families.
These projects and others have taken place in more than 40 nations around the world. In the summer of 2010, 350 Duke students are participating in either DukeEngage group or individual programs across the globe. For more information, view our section on Immersion Programs.
Who may participate in DukeEngage?
Duke undergraduates in good standing who have completed two semesters of coursework are eligible and may apply. Because post-experience reflection and sharing with others in the Duke community is a central tenet of the DukeEngage philosophy, the program is restricted to applications from first-year students, sophomores and juniors who plan to return to campus following their DukeEngage experience for at least a full-time semester. DukeEngage will cover expenses (travel and living) associated with the immersion experience. For students on need-based financial aid, Duke will also assume responsibility for the “summer earnings” requirement.
When can I apply and to which programs?
Please refer to the calendar of key dates and deadlines in the Applying to DukeEngage category. Note that students may apply for either an independent project of their own creation or may apply to one or two group programs (if applying to two programs, one must exist in the United States). An online application goes live annually once group programs are announced in early October. Information sessions are held throughout the fall. Application deadlines vary (check the DukeEngage web site for key dates related to applying). Students interested in developing an independent project should plan to meet with a DukeEngage staff advisor in the fall as they begin conceptualizing their project in advance of submitting their application online.
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The Duke Philosophy of Internationalization:
In 2004 Duke University was selected as one of the first five recipients of the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. The Duke philosophy of internationalization is that every aspect of Duke should be international in concept and character.
Internationalization is not seen as a specific or discrete set of activities or units, but as an integral part of Duke's effort to become a world-class institution in all its endeavors, and thereby to better serve the world of which it is a part. A section of the 2007 Duke strategic plan, Making a Difference notes that: "the internationalization of the region (the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area) echoes ever increasing globalization in many other areas, and global challenges now have consequences for our daily lives in ways we never before imagined. Engagement in these local and global communities provides exceptional opportunities for teaching and learning and for connecting knowledge to real world problems. Duke, therefore, gives high priority to reaching beyond its campus and to strengthening local, regional, and international partnerships."
In many respects Duke already represents a model of the internationalized research university. Almost fifty percent of Duke undergraduates study abroad. Foreign language and international courses are a requirement of Duke's core curriculum and 18 languages are taught on campus including Persian, Turkish and Arabic. One third of Duke's graduate and professional students are international. Duke has six federally-funded Title VI international centers and foreign area studies centers, at the top of the rankings for private research universities. More than 400 international post-doctoral fellows carry out research at Duke every year. All of Duke's professional schools are also engaged in international activities. Duke faculty and graduate students work in partnership with over 300 institutions worldwide. Duke has international alumni clubs in 41 countries throughout the world.
Enhancing the Study Abroad Experience and Curriculum Integration Effort:
While facilitating quality study abroad experiences remains the chief mission of the Office of Study Abroad (OSA) (http://studyabroad.duke.edu/), OSA, together with the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education and Dean of Trinity College, initiated a Curriculum Integration effort in 2004 that continues as an on-going effort to enhance the undergraduate study abroad experience. By establishing departmental liaisons between the OSA and academic departments on campus we are working to link study abroad more closely to the Duke curriculum so that students view their study abroad experience as an integral component of their four year academic plan at Duke rather than something unrelated to this plan.
The OSA has established $25,000 in funding for summer research fellowships to plan and conduct summer projects inspired by and based on academic study abroad experiences. Priority is given to students whose projects will serve as a foundation for a senior distinction project in their majors. More information about this effort may be found at: http://studyabroad.duke.edu/fellowships.html
DukeEngage and Duke Global Health Institute:
Two major new initiatives at Duke highlight the innovative and interdisciplinary approach to internationalization at Duke.
Firstly, DukeEngage: In one of the most ambitious efforts of its kind in U.S. higher education, Duke University announced in February 2007 that it had committed an initial amount of $30 million to provide funding and faculty support to all undergraduates who want to apply their classroom learning to addressing societal issues at home and abroad for a summer or a semester. In addition to tackling real-world problems, the students will develop the valuable skills and self-knowledge that result from an immersive service experience. During the summer of 2007 DukeEngage launched seven pilot programs with over 80 Duke students participating. Of the seven programs, five were international; in Yemen, the Ukraine, Kenya (2) and India.
The second example is the new Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI), launched in 2007. The Duke Global Health Institute works to reduce health disparities both in the local Durham community and worldwide. Recognizing that many global health problems stem from economic, social, environmental, political and health care inequalities, the Duke Global Health Institute brings together interdisciplinary teams from schools and departments throughout the University to work with partners to solve highly complex health problems and to train the next generation of global health scholars.
DGHI will develop an undergraduate major in global health, work with the Duke Career Center to offer undergraduate global health career counseling, establish masters and doctoral programs in global health, add a third-year global health track for medical students and promote campus activism, advocacy and service. In research, DGHI will assist current Duke projects in global health and develop a focused portfolio of new research initiatives on priority topics such as HIV/AIDS and other emerging infections, obesity, environmental health and the interrelationship of gender health and poverty.
DGHI's goal is to make Duke "the" destination for scholars and practitioners in global health, as well as the producer of the next generation of global health experts and leaders. DGHI’s service efforts will show Duke's commitment to providing practical and sustainable solutions to global health problems. DGHI’s website can be found at http://globalhealth.duke.edu/
The richness of the all international aspects of Duke University can be found at Duke’s Global Gateway website: www.international.duke.edu
Duke University Articles
Volunteer on Duke's Dime
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Volunteer on Duke's Dime
By Carolyn Beeler
This article was printed in Abroad View magazine fall 2007
Beginning in the summer of 2008, every undergraduate at Duke University will have the opportunity to participate in a summer or semester-long immersive service experience in the United States or abroad, funded completely by Duke. The new program, called DukeEngage, provides $30 million toward supporting
undergraduate civic engagement projects. The money will also help establish the Duke Center for Civic Engagement (DCCE), an umbrella organization to coordinate civic engagement and service-learning programs on campus.
DukeEngage will provide full funding and staff support for participants to learn about contemporary social
issues. Students will have the flexibility to work with a variety of different organizations, including nonprofit and nongovernmental agencies, in addressing poverty, housing, and education, among other issues.
Students may use funds to participate in programs coordinated through Duke or they may initiate their own proposals and earn funding by writing grant proposals. The $30-million endowment comes from equal
contributions from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Duke Endowment, a private foundation serving North Carolina and South Carolina.
Eric Mlyn, incoming director of the DCCE, estimates that half the students taking advantage of DukeEngage will volunteer abroad. HIV/AIDS relief work in India and Tanzania and volunteer positions at a Kenyan school for young women are some of the program’s international opportunities currently in development.
Mlyn is also looking to include programs that tie experiences at home to volunteering abroad. For example, Duke students might work with Guatemalan immigrants in the area around the university in Durham, N.C., then travel to Guatemala to teach English as a second language. Mlyn says the program’s emphasis on engagement and service learning “fits in beautifully” with the University’s greater mission of using knowledge in service to society.
“We give our students superb academic training, but we also want them to become active citizens and creative problem-solvers, using their education to make a real-world difference,” Duke President Richard Brodhead says in a press release. “Duke has always placed a special emphasis on using knowledge for the greater social good.”
Social awareness and service have a strong presence on campus, as more than 80 percent of students actively volunteer. “Duke students are already doing this—now we have the money to do it fully,” Mlyn says. He says student response to DukeEngage has been overwhelming. “The demand is there, now the question is building programs to meet the demand.” Program directors hope that by 2012 a quarter of
the student body will participate in the program.
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