- Alumni Admissions
- Career Boosters
- Education & Travel
- Affinity Groups
- Homecoming 2006
- Send-off Parties
- DUBAC
- Young Alumni
| SAVE THE DATE |
| JUNE |
(14-25) TRAVEL - The Classical World of the Aegean Sea
(17-24) TRAVEL - Alaska: Aboard the Sea Lion
(20-July 2) TRAVEL - Voyage to the Lands of Gods and Heroes
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| SEPTEMBER |
(28) - Founders' Day
(29-30) - Homecoming (including Half Century Club and DUBAC reunions)
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| APRIL |
(13-15) - Reunions 2007
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| ??Duke Trivia?? |
| What British author, visiting Duke in 1937, called it "a whole city of gray stone"? |
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College on the Horizon?
If your child is approaching high-school age, it's time to talk college. And the DAA is here to help you jump-start the admissions process.
Each June, the Alumni Admissions Program hosts its Alumni Admissions Forum, an all-day conference on campus for approximately 300 alumni parents and their children all about undergraduate admissions at Duke, and in general. To see the most recent forum brochure for topics covered, go to www.dukealumni.com/2006forum.
We mail advance information about the forum to alumni with children who are rising tenth-, eleventh-, and twelfth-graders. Be sure to share your children's birth dates with us so that you'll be notified when the time comes for considering colleges. Send your child's data to bluedevil@duke.edu, or to Alumni and Development Records, Box 90581, Durham, NC 27708-0581.
Career Boosters
eProNet is now available through Experience.com, an exclusive network of alumni and employers offering job opportunities to graduates of the nation's top universities. As a Duke graduate, you receive free, unlimited access to Experience and all of its resources, including:
- Access to thousands of jobs, from employers and alumni
- Free alum-to-alum job postings
- Search-agent emails
- Updates directly from the Career Center
Register today at www.dukealumni.experience.com.
Fall Career Fair, September 20, in the Bryan Center: a chance for employers to meet students interested in full-time jobs or internships. If you're interested in attending or want to make sure your organization is invited, contact career-employeer@studentaffairs.duke.edu. After the fair, there's a reception for alumni, co-hosted by the Career Center and the Office of Alumni Affairs. An invitation with more information about the reception, along with a link to register, will be emailed later this summer.
WINNER: Michael Xia B.S.E. '01 of Wind River Systems, who registered at the Career Center booth during Reunions 2006, won an iPod Nano. Xia signed up to hire or mentor Duke students. You too can get involved through DukeConnect. Click here to learn how you can help.
Where alumni are going in June and July:
The Classical World of the Aegean Sea, June 14-25; Alaska: Aboard the Sea Lion, June 17-24; Voyage to the Lands of Gods and Heroes, June 20-July 2.
Plan your summer escape.
There's still space on these upcoming trips:
Ireland, July 24-August 4; Snake River in Hell's Canyon, July 26-August 1.
Explore www.dukepassport.com for information on these and other Alumni Education & Travel adventures.
Affinity-active
Check out Affinity Groups on www.dukealumni.com for some new websites the DAA is hosting. DukeLAN, dedicated to Duke's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender alumni, has chapters in major cities around the country. Be sure to sign up in order to receive special email broadcasts of upcoming events and programs. Other affinity groups are also planning events for Homecoming 2006 and Reunions 2007. Click here to see if your campus group is represented or for information on how up can set up an affinity-group website.
Homecoming 2006: Forever Duke
The tradition continues. Come back to campus September 29-30 to celebrate Homecoming, connect with friends, and engage in a variety of events and programs: Half Century Club Reunion, Oktoberfest, Step Show, President's Homecoming Dance, Duke University Black Alumni Connection (DUBAC)Reunion, Duke vs. Virginia football, Pregame Homecoming Lunch, Young Alumni Party & Pub Crawl, Affinity Group reunions. Register online after August 1. Click here for a complete schedule.
Welcoming the Class of 2010
It's summertime, and Duke alumni and parents are opening their homes in cities around the world to entering first-year students for send-off parties. These popular events provide a wonderful opportunity for soon-to-be Blue Devils to meet their classmates, for current students to share insider knowledge about Duke, and for parents of new students to meet and mingle with Duke alumni and friends in a warm, informal setting. Want to be a part of the welcome? Go to www.dukealumni.com/sendoff for a list of dates and places in your area.
Focus on the Future
The DAA is in the field, sharing news about its new strategic plan, foreverduke.com, particularly the emphasis on meeting the needs of its affinity groups. The alumni association's oldest and best-organized group is the Duke University Black Alumni Connection (DUBAC). On January 20, the DAA invited Washington, D.C.-area black alumni to a focus-group breakfast and, on March 7, held a similar gathering in Durham, in conjunction with the opening of the Grant Hill art collection at Duke's new Nasher Museum of Art. The purpose is to help DUBAC connect and engage alumni, with one another and with the university. Topics included informing African-American alumni on the current state of diversity on campus, minority admissions, and celebrating Duke's first black graduates. The DAA will host another alumni focus group on August 10 in New York. Plans are being made for an Atlanta focus group in late summer. Go to www.dubac.org to learn how you can get involved.
Active Listening
If you've been a graduate of Duke for a decade or less, you're defined as "young alumni," and we're venturing off campus to find out what we can do for you. This summer, the DAA has scheduled young-alumni focus groups in Boston, Washington, Seattle, and New York. To learn more about special programs designed with you in mind, click Young Alumni.
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