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Get Involved:  Faculty-built Programs

APPLICATION FOR DUKEENGAGE PROGRAMS

Faculty and Staff Programs

DukeEngage provides funding, training, and support for Duke undergraduates who want to pursue a summer or semester-long intensive civic engagement experience anywhere in the world. Through DukeEngage, Duke students can apply what they have learned in the classroom to address societal issues in the United States or abroad. Participants must have completed two semesters at Duke, be in good standing with the university, and are not permitted to take classes during their service experience.

Civic engagement is a broad term that can include everything from volunteerism to democratic participation. We seek to support student projects ranging from: working in local schools, assisting with disaster recovery, working with an international human rights organization, conducting HIV/AIDS education, outreach and prevention in communities around the world. What connects each of these experiences, and others like them, are that they involve individuals and groups tackling issues of public, even global, concern.

There are a variety of ways that Duke students can get engaged. Some will propose individual projects. Others will join established DukeEngage programs that are led and facilitated by third-party providers. However, the most important avenue for Duke student engagement is to participate in programs built by Duke faculty and staff. Experiencing civic engagement with faculty and staff is central to our mission of helping students connect their DukeEngage experiences back to their lives at Duke upon return.

To learn more about proposal guidelines and project selection details, please download the document below.

2009-10 Call for Proposals

Please contact Eric Mlyn, 668-1724, eric.mlyn@duke.edu with any questions.

<p>In the summer of 2009, Ralph Litzinger, associate professor of cultural anthropology and director of Duke's Asian/Pacifici Studies Institute led a group program through DukeEngage that took students to the Dandelion School in Beijing, where they volunteered with children of Chinese migrant workers.  Says Ralph, "I brought six energized Duke students to Beijing to 'engage' a world of economic and social marginalization.  We brought with us a certain utopian conceit that we would make a difference in the lives of these young people.  No doubt we did, in most ways small, in a few ways large.  But what stays with me the most is the lesson we learned about what other forms of activism, and engagement, and caring and connection can look like."</p>

In the summer of 2009, Ralph Litzinger, associate professor of cultural anthropology and director of Duke's Asian/Pacifici Studies Institute led a group program through DukeEngage that took students to the Dandelion School in Beijing, where they volunteered with children of Chinese migrant workers.  Says Ralph, "I brought six energized Duke students to Beijing to 'engage' a world of economic and social marginalization.  We brought with us a certain utopian conceit that we would make a difference in the lives of these young people.  No doubt we did, in most ways small, in a few ways large.  But what stays with me the most is the lesson we learned about what other forms of activism, and engagement, and caring and connection can look like."