The Service Opportunities in Leadership Program Announces New Interns
Sixteen students have been selected for Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL) internships. They will travel to countries across four continents—Africa, Asia, North America, and South America. Read More.
Information sessions for the 2008 SOL Program have concluded.
The first information session took place on Monday, October 15, 2007 from 5:30-6:30pm in Rubenstein Hall, room 153.
The second information session took place on Monday, October 22, 2007 from 5:30-6:30pm in Rubenstein Hall, room 153.
Applications for the spring 2008 SOL gateway course, PUBPOL 196: Border Crossing: Leadership, Value Conflicts and Public Life, are now closed.
We are now accepting applications for the summer 2008 SOL grants. For application information, please click here. The deadline for applications is 5 pm on Friday, February 29, 2008.
Turning Points through SOL
Duke senior Kate Guthrie never thought she would spend a summer in the South Bronx, much less find academic stimulation and career motivation there. But she did, thanks to her work with sub-Saharan African immigrants at the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Organization, a community partner she engaged with through Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL).
An intensive, 12-month academic and research service-learning endeavor run by the Hart Leadership Program, SOL attracts some of Duke University’s brightest and most motivated students, engaging them in a summer of community service book-ended by two semesters of study that instill leadership and social awareness values. Read more about Kate Guthrie and other SOL students.
2006 SOL participants selected
Thirteen students have been selected to participate in the HLP’s Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL) program. The group includes a Baldwin, Robertson and University Scholar; members of the women’s varsity swim team and the Black Student Alliance; a scuba diver master and former officer in Singapore’s Officer Cadet School; a Chanticleer editor; a volunteer from the Durham Crisis Response Center. Everyone in the group is enrolled this spring in the full-credit SOL preparatory course, “Border Crossing: Leadership, Value Conflicts and Public Life” (PPS 196.30). Students interested in conducting summer community-based research projects and officially joining SOL submitted grant proposal describing their research topic. These range from helping launch a micro-financing initiative among low-income women in Belize to improving the quality of education for children with HIV/AIDS in New York to exploring the relationship between women employees and students at Duke. In the fall, these 13 students will take the SOL capstone course, “Adaptive Leadership” (PPS 137) with HLP director Alma Blount. To learn more about this year’s SOLsters and their research projects, click here.
SOL featured in new book on leadership
In the new book, Leadership Can Be Taught, author Sharon Daloz Parks profiles a number of people influenced by seminal leadership educator and Harvard professor Ron Heifetz. HLP director Alma Blount, who studied under Heifetz and served as his teaching assistant, is one of the subjects profiled. Specifically, the passage about Blount focuses on how she has adapted and expanded on some of Heifetz’s approaches. The book is published by Harvard Business School Press.
Yoffee receives Fulbright
SOL participant Adam Yoffie ’06 has been selected as a Fulbright Fellow. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa this May, he will spend 10 months in Jerusalem continuing his HIV/AIDS research and advocacy. Yoffie, a Robertson Scholar from Westfield, New Jersey, is majoring in political science with a concentration in international relations and pursuing a certificate in documentary studies with an emphasis in oral history. Adam has spent three summers conducting research-service learning through the Robertson Scholars program and SOL. He has worked on HIV/AIDS in Atlanta, gun control in Cape Town, and the death penalty in Durham. A member of Sigma Nu fraternity, Adam is the past president of Duke Friends of Israel and is a columnist for the Chronicle.
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