Your monthly update from the Office for Institutional Equity (OIE)
about inclusive work across Duke
February 2024
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Duke Celebrates Black History Month
Black History Month recognizes all aspects of Black culture, including
throughout the diaspora.
In addition to honoring the legacies of Black pioneers and their impact
on our lives, communities and the world, we celebrate those who continue
to enrich their vital work.
This edition of Equity In Action spotlights some of the leadership and
service that continue to advance our efforts.
Be sure to note the latest updates from OIE and upcoming
campus events and opportunities you won't want to miss!
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Provost's Initiative on the Middle East Announced |
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Provost Alec D. Gallimore announced the Provost's Initiative on the Middle East in a Feb. 12 email to students, faculty and staff at Duke.
The Provost’s Initiative on the Middle East aims to foster constructive dialogues on these multifaceted and emotionally charged issues that will enhance understanding and build skills that lead to shared learning. The initiative will leverage the talent and expertise of the Duke community, judiciously supplemented with outside voices, and seek to nurture a sense of community, particularly among individuals from different backgrounds, experiences and points of view.
Bruce Jentleson, the William Preston Few Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and an expert on the Middle East as well as international security and U.S. foreign policy, will lead this effort.
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The 2024 Cook Awards ceremony was a momentous evening of reflection and celebration. Held February 15th at the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club, the Cook Society, the Office for Institutional Equity and numerous sponsors welcomed more than 350 guests to the President's Ballroom for the occasion. Part of the Duke Centennial Celebration, the Cook Awards included a special Centennial Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Equality for Women in Science: Not There Yet
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Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, executive vice president and chief scientific officer of Boston Children’s Hospital, recalled that in the 1980s a member of her dissertation committee at MIT suggested she make a career studying aggression in toddlers, though Andrews was a molecular biologist. This was one of many slights she and other women in the sciences were encountering.
Not until 1999, when a report from MIT documenting unequal conditions for female faculty in the sciences at the school, did Andrews fully recognize that what she and other women were experiencing was due to a pattern of bias, not some deficit in her abilities.
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News from the Office for Institutional Equity |
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OIE Spring 2024 Workshop Series is Open!
The workshop series is open to the Duke community, in particular to staff interested in increasing skill and workplace culture in their departments. This spring, workshops will be held in Smith Warehouse, Bay 6, B271. Directions, parking, and other logistical information may be found here. Registration is required for each session.
Visit OIE Education Workshop Series for more
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| Vice President for Institutional Equity Kimberly Hewitt Quoted in Durham Magazine
Hewitt is one of four black women in leadership roles discussing their work experiences and insights on the future of Durham.
In terms of being part of Durham, Hewitt said she’s appreciative of those who came before her to create the city that stands today. “People who’ve been here much longer than I have, have really worked hard to change the culture and change the way people have access to education, and to housing, and to all these things in the community,” she said. “I know that there are a lot of pioneers here who’ve been in the trenches for a long time. And, I know what the history of Durham is, so [its] transformation is just really exciting. It makes me proud to be even a little part of that.”
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| Q&A: What is Privilege?
Duke’s diversity, equity and inclusion experts explain how privilege can manifest in various forms, including socioeconomic, racial, gender and heterosexual privileges.
This story is part of the Working Toward Racial Justice series.
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Music, Flowers and Hot Chocolate: Sophia Enriquez Teaches Through Community Engagement
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Last October, students from Sophia Enriquez’s Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South class boarded a bus and headed to a farm in Hillsborough to pick cempasúchil flowers, a species of marigold known as flor de muerto or flower of the dead.
It’s not what the students had expected to do that morning, but this type of community engagement is precisely how Enriquez approaches teaching, performance, and most everything else she does.
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Duke Chapel Student Preacher Sermon
Focused on Faith and Hope |
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The 2024 Duke Chapel Student Preacher, sophomore David Ntim, delivered the sermon in the chapel’s worship service on Feb. 25.
A native of Charlotte, North Carolina, Ntim first learned about the chapel’s Student Preacher program when he was in high school and his older brother, Daniel, was a student at Duke. A double major in biomedical engineering and computer science, Ntim's sermon, titled “Hope Against Hope,” explored the relationship between faith and hope in the biblical figure of Abraham.
Ntim is active at Duke Chapel as a Chapel Scholar and Chapel Ambassador. He is also a member of the campus Religious Life group Every Nation Campus and serves as the director of religious affairs for Duke Student Government.
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Climate Research Innovation Seed Program
RFP Proposals due TODAY |
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Inviting all Duke faculty and research staff to submit proposals by Feb. 26, 2024, for Climate Research Innovation Seed Program (CRISP) grants, including Research Awards (up to $100K) and Ideation Awards (up to $20K). Awards will focus on Climate and Community Resilience. Ideation Awards can address any of the four Duke Climate Commitment focus areas: Energy Transformation, Climate and Community Resilience, Environmental and Climate Justice, and Data-Driven Climate Solutions. Proposed budgets can now include salary and fringe for faculty and research staff (some limitations apply; see section 5.2). Questions? Contact Tom Cinq-Mars (tom.cinq.mars@duke.edu).
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Deadline for Completing Campus Culture Survey Extended to March 1.
Duke encourages faculty, staff and students to participate and share their experiences.
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Nominations for the 2024 Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award for Service Due By March 4 |
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The prestigious Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award was established for Southern colleges and universities to honor service-oriented college students as well as university faculty and staff members with a demonstrated record of community involvement. The annual award is presented by 68 colleges and universities across the South.
Awards will be presented to a graduating senior, a graduate/professional student and a Duke University or Duke Health faculty member or staff person who have demonstrated generosity of character and acted as humble community members, placing service to others before self-interest.
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Duke Women's Center to Host Reproductive Justice Conference During Women's History Month
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The Reproductive Justice Conference is part of Women’s History Month programming in March 2024. The 2024 conference theme, Healing Black Bodies and Black Maternal Health, touches on many topics at the heart of reproductive justice conversations, from black maternal health and morbidity to regulations imposed on black bodies, and feelings of love and worth tied to the body. Panel topics include “Black Maternal Health: Local to National Activism,” “Reproductive Justice Scholarship” and more!
The keynote speaker is author and activist Sonya Renee Taylor, author of The Body is Not an Apology, with a welcome address from doula and abortion rights activist Camille Adair. Please email womenctr@duke.edu if you are interested in participating or have questions.
The event is free, but registration is required.
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Research Funding Available for Environmental
and Climate Justice in the Carolinas |
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The Duke Climate Commitment addresses the climate challenge by creating sustainable and equitable solutions that place society on the path toward a resilient, flourishing, carbon-neutral world. Environmental and climate justice is one of the four research priority areas identified in this university-wide, impact-oriented initiative.
Thanks to generous funding from The Duke Endowment, we are now accepting research proposals from Duke faculty to engage with “Environmental and Climate Justice in the Carolinas.” We anticipate issuing three to four awards ranging up to $150,000 with start dates as early as July 1, 2024. Duke full-time regular rank faculty can serve as PIs. Please see the full RFP for more information.
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At the Nasher: Cuban-born Artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, 'Behold'
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María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold is a monographic exhibition of a visionary voice in photography, immersive installation, painting and performance. Spanning nearly four decades of visually engaging artworks, the exhibition explores Campos-Pons’s prescient and sensorial work—transporting viewers across geographies, mediums and spiritual practices. In her explorations of migration, diaspora and memory, Campos-Pons draws from her family story to examine the global histories of enslavement, indentured labor, motherhood and migration.
The exhibition runs through June 9, 2024.
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Duke University Institutional Statement of Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
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