Annual Activities Report2015-2016

DOCE Leadership Transitions

The 2015-2016 academic year was marked with transitions for the Duke Office of Civic Engagement (DOCE). The year started with the arrival of Emma DeVries as the civic fellow. Prof. Bob Korstad served his third and final year as the chair of the Faculty Advisory Board, where he contributed to developing the series on the intersection of faith and civic engagement. Korstad will continue teaching in the Sanford School of Public Policy and serving as the associate director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity.

Leslie Parkins joined the DOCE staff at the end of March and has settled into her role within the office to connect and strengthen efforts of civic engagement across Duke University. Parkins earned a doctorate in higher education administration from North Carolina State University in 2008, where she studied faculty involvement in service-learning pedagogy at research-intensive institutions. She brings experience in administering community-based initiatives and supporting specific scholarly interests of faculty from a variety of disciplines.

As Korstad wraps up his leadership for the office, Dr. Dennis Clements will step into the role of chair of the Faculty Advisory Board this summer. Clements, a professor of pediatrics and community and family medicine, holds a doctorate and a master’s in public health, and is currently the co-director of the Duke-UNC Consortium for Latin American & Caribbean Studies and a senior advisor to the Duke Global Health Institute.

DeVries will be moving on from her role to pursue a doctorate in geography at the University of Minnesota, where she will further explore faith-based social and environmental movements. Lucia Constantine began with DOCE as the civic fellow in early May and brings with her a variety of experiences, including work at the Haas Center at Stanford University and Student Action with Farmworkers. As the year comes to an end, the staff and leadership of the Duke Office of Civic Engagement are busy planning for the upcoming year as we focus on a new series on political engagement.

Abdullah Antepli Joins DOCE

Imam Abdullah Antepli joined the DOCE earlier this year as senior civic fellow and has contributed to the work on the civic engagement and faith series. Born in Turkey, Antepli is recognized and celebrated as one of the leading American-Muslim public intellectuals who has been richly contributing to various local, national and international conversations. His bridge-building and peace-making work takes him to different corners of the globe at any given moment. DOCE welcomes him as an additional resource to further its ambitious mission. Antepli also serves as the director of DukeEngage in Lebanon program. He served as Duke University’s first Muslim chaplain from July 2008 to 2014 and currently holds the role of Chief Representative of Muslim Affairs. In his new role, Antepli engages students, faculty and staff to provide a Muslim voice and perspective to the discussions of faith, spirituality, social justice and more. Antepli also serves as a faculty member in the Duke Divinity School and teaches variety of courses on Islam and Muslim cultures.

DOCE Annual Activities Report: 2015-2016

Leslie Parkins, Ed.D. began as the new DOCE assistant director in March 2016.

During the summer of 2016, Dennis Clements, M.D., Ph.D., will begin serving as chair of the DOCE Faculty Advisory Board.

Lucia Constantine joined DOCE as the new civic fellow in April 2016.

S CC E

Duke University Certificate in Civic Engagement and Social Change

Experiential Certificate Approved & Launched

The Duke Certificate in Civic Engagement and Social Change launched during the 2015-16 academic year, providing a pathway for students to integrate community-based learning experiences with academic coursework. Housed in the Program in Education, the certificate provides students with curricular structure to explore topics of democracy, civil society, voluntarism, political participation, social movements, theories of social change and notions of the public good. Prof. David Malone from the Program in Education taught the first gateway course in Spring 2016.

Requirements include a gateway course on engaged citizenship and social change, two elective courses and a capstone course. In addition, students complete two intensive civic engagement experiences: 300 hours with a single community partner AND 150 hours with one or more organizations. While participating in the certificate, students deepen their learning through documenting and reflecting in an ePortfolio. Students must declare participation before the drop/add period of the fall semester of their junior year.

Certificate program questions should be directed to Eric Mlyn: eric.mlyn@duke.edu.

educationprogram.duke.edu/CCESC

2015-2016 Series on Faith & Civic Engagement

During 2015-2016, the DOCE highlighted the intersections of faith and civic engagement on our campus. The series brought together people of all faith and non-faith backgrounds to offer diverse moral/religious perspectives on civic work. We sought to bring campus stakeholders together to begin to create more space for these challenging but important conversations. DOCE facilitated conversations on civic engagement with religious life staff, featured the issues in our blog and newsletter and convened three events:

Dr. Molly Worthen, professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill, presented to a group of Duke faculty and staff on “Religion and Politics in 2016: Reports from the Trenches” and led a discussion on the challenges of navigating religious and political difference in higher education.

Sam Miglarese, Director of Community Engagement at Duke, led a discussion on religion and institutional reform, the topic of his book The Long Shadow of Vatican II , co-authored with Duke Religious Studies faculty members Lucas Van Rompay and David Morgan.

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, President of the NC NAACP chapter and leader of the Moral Mondays Movement, and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Director of the School for Conversion and Durham’s Rutba House, joined us for a reading from their new book The Third Reconstruction (Beacon Press, 2016).

University-Wide Civic Engagement Inventory Published

In October 2015, Elaine Madison, Jaclyne Purtell and Eric Mlyn published a comprehensive report on civic activities on campus during the 2013-2014 academic year. “Civic Engagement at Duke: A Survey of Campus Programs, Initiatives, and Activities (2013-2014)” examines the activities themselves, as well as their impact on various populations. Key findings include: • 6,000+ members of the campus community participated in civic

engagement activities, donating nearly 300,000 hours of service.• 45% of these initiatives were connected in some way to the curricula.• 1,900+ partnerships with community organizations were reported.• $5 million to $10 million = estimated financial impact of activities.

To read the report in its entirety, please visit the DOCE website: civic.duke.edu/duke-civic-engagement-inventory/

DOCE Annual Activities Report: 2015-2016

The Faith and Civic Engagement series invited speakers from Duke and beyond to discuss issues of religion, faith and community; L to R: Molly Worthen, Ph.D.; The Long Shadow of the Vatican II, by Sam Miglarese; and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II.

DOCE Staff

• Eric Mlyn, Ph.D. Asst. Vice Provost for Civic Engagement

• Leslie Parkins, Ed.D. Assistant Director

• Abdullah Antepli Senior Civic Engagement Fellow

• Lucia Constantine Civic Engagement Fellow

• Cathy Stamm Communications Director

Faculty Advisory Board

Outgoing ChairBob Korstad (Sanford)

Incoming ChairDennis Clements (Medicine)

MembersDouglas Campbell (Divinity)Aaron Chatterji (Fuqua)Michaeline Crichlow (Trinity)Michelle Hartman (Nursing)Deborah Jenson (Trinity)Keval Khalsa (Trinity)Hsiao-Mei Ku (Trinity)Michelle Lyn (Medicine)Theresa Newman (Law)William M. Reichert (Pratt)Orin Starn (Trinity)Don Taylor (Sanford)

DOCE Contact Info

Smith Warehouse First Floor, Bay 8, Room B104114 S. Buchanan Blvd. Box 90591Durham, NC 27708919-668-0249

civic.duke.edu

Coming in 2016-2017

For the 2016-2017 academic year, DOCE will focus on civic and political engagement. Haroon Moghul, author and commentator, will offer a Muslim American perspective on the upcoming election. In addition, Hahrie Han, a scholar of democracy and civic engagement, will share her expertise in mobilizing and organizing people to affect social change.

University Council on Civic Enagement (UCCE)

The UCCE identifies strategies for fostering effective civic engagement opportunities for students, faculty and staff; organizes and assesses existing civic engagement efforts to maximize their impact on student learning and community needs; and sets sustainable goals for civic engagement efforts at Duke.

DOCE Partners with Campus Organizations

This year, the DOCE proudly partnered with a number of departments, offices and organizations in its efforts to coordinate civic engagement on campus. We are grateful to the following for their active participation and partnership:

Baldwin Scholars

CASE - Center for the Advancement of Social

Entrepreneurship

Center for Muslim Life

Forum for Scholars & Publics

Franklin Humanities Institute

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Office of Durham and Regional Affairs

Program in Education

Religious Life

Sanford School of Public Policy

Please contact the DOCE if you have ideas for collaboration on engaged scholarship or engaged activities at Duke University. Our staff is eager to discuss potential projects with our colleagues and community members.

Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, at Page Auditorium, 10/28/15. Cullors also joined the DOCE Faculty Advisory Board for a candid conversation about social change at Duke University.