Duke is proud to be among seven North Carolina institutions earning the 2026 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, a national recognition of deep, sustained commitment to community-engaged teaching and scholarship. Read the announcement →
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2/19 (THUR), 4:00–6:00 PM | Community Action Day: Emanuel Food Pantry — Join the Duke Service-Learning team to support Durham County’s largest emergency food assistance program, which now serves 860 families each week through a volunteer-powered, no-barriers model grounded in dignity and community care. Volunteers will help pack and sort rice and beans during the pantry’s weekly distribution. Register for a shift and read more about Emanuel Food Pantry’s impact in this recent INDY Week feature.
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Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Awards - Nominate a student, faculty member, or community partner for their commitment to service-learning. Award recipients receive $500 to support leadership and community-building efforts. Guidelines can be found here. Email Kathy Sikes (kathy.sikes@duke.edu) your nomination . Deadline is March 20th!
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CAST Fellows Program (Experiential Learning Edition) - Apply by Feb. 6 - Revise an existing course to incorporate experiential climate and sustainability components, with cohort support. Apply here.
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Bass Connections project teams (2026–27) - Apply by Feb. 9 - Interdisciplinary, faculty-led research teams tackling real-world challenges. Apply here.
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Bass Connections Student Research Grants - Apply by Feb. 16 - Funding for students (solo or group) to test new research ideas. Apply here.
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Food Pantry Capacity Grants (Deadline: Feb. 19): NCCE member campuses can apply for up to $1,000 to support or expand an on-campus food pantry. Duke students interested in food access or hunger initiatives are encouraged to explore this opportunity. Apply here.
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Feb. 19 (5:30 p.m.) — Free screening of A Road Out, a documentary exploring how South African health pioneers reshaped community medicine in the U.S., followed by a Q&A moderated by Gary Bennett. [Register →]
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Redesigning Democracy Competition (Feb. 28 | UNC Greensboro) – Interested in reimagining how democracy is practiced and sustained? Student teams from across North Carolina will gather to tackle a real-world democratic challenge through collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. Teams (4 students + 1 faculty/staff advisor) will develop and present solutions to a panel of judges, with cash prizes awarded to support campus civic engagement efforts. Hosted at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Learn more here. Register by Feb. 18.
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Feb. 24 (5:00–6:00 p.m.) — Student Voices in Action, the final lecture in the Alliance for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Computing Education (AiiCE) series, featuring Duke undergraduates from the AiiCE Student Advisory Board sharing student-led projects focused on community-building and change in computing education. [Register →]
- March 26 (9:00–10:30 a.m.) — Community-Engaged and Community-Partnered Research, a free Zoom workshop hosted by the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) for faculty, students, and staff engaged in social science and applied research. [Register →]
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Collaborative Project Courses Faculty Fellows Program – Apply by March 26th: Interested in designing or redesigning a course around applied, project-based learning? This faculty fellowship offers a peer learning community, pedagogy support, and a $5,000 stipend for courses centered on collaborative, semester-long projects. Open to faculty from all schools and course levels. A partnership between the Duke Center for Teaching and Learning and Bass Connections. Learn more here.
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SLCE faculty member Whitney McCoy Hudson has been named a 2026 Samuel DuBois Cook Society Staff Award recipient, recognizing her leadership in community-engaged STEM education and her work building equitable, multigenerational learning communities in Durham. [Read more →]
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SLCE faculty member Yan Liu has received the 2025 Klett Award for Sustainable Development Education, recognizing her innovative work integrating sustainability and global learning into world language education. [Read more →]
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SLCE faculty members Minna Ng and Genna Miller are featured in a new Duke story on community-engaged teaching, showcasing how their courses integrate teaching, research, and service through community partnerships. [Read the story →]
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A Duke feature highlights the teaching of SLCE faculty member Kusum Knapczyk, whose classroom project invites students to examine culture, identity, and social context through language learning. [Read more →]
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Each month, we share a reflection that reminds us what authentic engagement looks like in practice.
In a recent Duke Chronicle essay, Trinity sophomore Natalia Harnisch reflects on storytelling as a way to honor humanity. Writing about Rita Patiño Quintero, an Indigenous Rarámuri woman whose life was marked by both beauty and injustice, Harnisch’s reflection echoes a core principle of community-engaged learning: learning deepens when we center lived experience, listen with care, and resist reducing people to outcomes. Drawing from coursework, creative inquiry, and classes like Death, Burial, and Justice in the Americas, a service-learning course taught by Adam Rosenblatt, she shows how storytelling can become an act of recognition, responsibility, and connection.
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