SOL News and Events
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 junior 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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