DukeEngage was the focus of a story August 10 in Inside Higher Ed. DukeEngage Executive Director Eric Mlyn, Duke Provost Peter Lange, and DukeEngage student Jamie Patrick were interviewed for the story. Also contributing was Washington University faculty member Amanda Moore McBride, director of the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and research director of the Center for Social Development.
Says the article: “DukeEngage experiences are not credit-bearing, but they are seen as critical to the undergraduate academic experience at the university. ‘If you look at our top three thematic priorities in our strategic plan, they would be globalization, interdisciplinarity and putting knowledge at the service of society,’ says Peter Lange, Duke’s provost. ‘DukeEngage was an embodiment at the undergraduate level of those three broad themes.'”
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