What's your affinity?

There are numerous ways to connect with Duke: affinity groups, the huge number of activities, living groups, and campus associations that you participated in as a student. The marching band, Hoof 'n' Horn, residents of Blackwell dorm, the swim team, College Bound mentors, or established social groups, like sororities or fraternities - all of these fall under the affinity umbrella. Affinity groups provide a tangible way for us to identify and engage individuals in the life of the university. The DAA is committed to providing affinity groups more programs and communications, and more chances to interact with us and each other.

Affinity groups have the following characteristics:

• Self-identified
• Identified in the Duke alumni database
• Alumni volunteers, at least two, willing to lead group for 2 years
• Have a statement of goal(s)

How to get started:

• Contact the Duke Alumni Office by clicking here
• Create, with help from Duke staff, an initial broadcast email message announcing the existence of your group, a survey of the group, and what's next
• Establish an affinity group website with the help of Duke staff. There must be an identified website administrator to populate the site.
  

What we can do for you:

• Send your first broadcast email announcement (and up to one broadcast email per month) to your group
• Send out one hard-copy mailing per year, paid for by the DAA
• On-campus event planning assistance
• Provide DAA-hosted website, which will include group goals, a list-serv, group contact information, and any events, either on Duke's campus or off

Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship Program

The Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship Program is Duke University's flagship merit scholarship for undergraduates. Since 1948, the program has recognized young men and women who demonstrate, through their excellent academic and personal records, outstanding promise of achievement in their chosen fields. For more information, click here.

Duke Lutherans

Welcome to the Duke Lutheran Alums affinity group. A Lutheran presence has existed at Duke for over 60 years, providing a home-away-from-home, a safe place to reflect on and examine personal faith, and a vibrant social life for Lutherans attending Duke. The purpose of this group is to provide a means for friends to stay in touch with each other as they depart on their sometimes seperate journeys and to remain connected to and support the current ministry of Duke Lutherans. To access the Duke Lutherans website, click here.

Brownstone Alumni Affinity Group

Alumni affinity group for Brownstone Co-ed Selective Living Group at Duke University. Brownstone is more than just a sweet place to live. It's a community, a house of friends, and a family. We aim to have a diverse, relaxed, and comfortable atmosphere for our residents. Click through to reconnect with your fellow Brownstone alumni. For more information, click here.

Beta Theta Pi 

From the chartering on October 6, 1939 until the closing on February 18, 2008 the Gamma Rho Chapter of Beta Theta Pi was considered the best fraternity ever at Duke (at least by the members). The Beta Brotherhood and spirit is kept alive by reunions, Lo-Lai, and The Duke Beta. For more information, click here.

Duke Chinese Alumni Affinity Group

Welcome to the Duke Chinese Alumni Affinity group! The Duke University Chinese Alumni Association is an independent membership organization dedicated to serve Duke University and the Chinese community at Duke's needs for educational and intellectual resources. For more information, click here.

Muslim Life at Duke

Muslim Life at Duke serves the interests and needs of Duke Muslim students and alums regardless of ethnicity, nationality, sect, religiosity, or affiliation otherwise. We seek to create a support network for Duke Muslims in pursuit of their degrees or careers as well as engaging the Muslim community in activities and public service on Duke's campus. For more information, click here.

Duke CRU Alumni Affinity Group

Welcome to the Duke CRU Alumni Affinity group! We are a community of Duke students who want to know and enjoy Christ, build lasting friendships with others, and reach out to our campus and the world with God's love. For more information, click here.

Duke University Black Alumni Connection

The Duke University Black Alumni Connection (DUBAC), founded in 1986, is a support conduit for black alumni of Duke University. We seek to support alumni in maintaining professional ties with former classmates and financial ties to the University. We seek to mentor and support current and prospective students in their quest for their respective degrees. We seek to support the University in its efforts to increase sensitivity, and respond to the needs of African-American students, as well as solicit funds to directly benefit African-American students. For more information, click here.

Women as Leaders

From 1999 till 2006, Betsy Alden's PPS 140 course "Women as Leaders" brought together a seminar of women who bonded as young feminist activists, dedicated to improving the world for women (and men and chilldren, too!). Closely allied with the Women's Initiative at Duke and the Baldwin Scholars Program, 65 of the 150 women who have taken the class celebrated Betsy's Retirement in 2007 and began to plan ways to continue to interact, network with each other, build "webs of inclusion," and mentor younger Duke women. A new website launches this spring with pictures of all the classes, update info, book club suggestions, and resources for women's leadership. For more information, click here.

Duke Band Alumni Association

For more information, click here.

Hoof 'n' Horn

For over 70 years, Hoof 'n' Horn has been dedicated to producing the highest quality, completely student run musical theater to Duke and the Durham community. The Hoof 'n' Horn affinity group is an organization dedicated to helping all lifetime members stay connected to the organization and each other after their time at Duke.

For more information, click here.

Out Of The Blue Alumnae Association

OOTBA is the alumnae association for women who were members of Out of the Blue, Duke?s first all-female a cappella group, which has been performing everywhere from Duke to Club Med to Carnegie Hall since (spring) 1981. For more information, click here.

Round Table Alumni Group

VIVA RT! And welcome to the Round Table Alumni Affinity Group! Here you will be able to connect with fellow RTers and find out about RT Reunions, local RT gatherings (maybe some milk 'n cookies), Homecoming and Alumni Weekend events at RT, and anything else that has to do with RT alumni! Thanks to the Duke Alumni Association, we will be able to send out a yearly group mailing and have an alumni email listserv for updates about the aforementioned events. For more information, click here.

Alpha Delta Pi

The Omicron Chapter of Alpha Delta Pi is excited to celebrate its 95th Anniversary in 2006! Since 1851, ADPi has dedicated itself to its strong sense of sisterhood, values, academics, philanthropy, and social responsibility. We Live For Each Other. For more information, click here.

Center for Race Relations Alumni

The CRR Alumni Association exists to facilitate contact between former CRR members with their classmates, fellow retreat participants and facilitators, as well as to introduce them to other CRRers from different years and to engage the community of similarly motivated alumni who graduated from Duke before the CRR was formed. For more information, click here.

Zeta Tau Alpha

Zeta Tau Alpha is back on campus and looking to reunite with our alumni! Visit our webpage to see what we've been doing since our re-colonization at Duke in the spring of 2005. For more information, click here.

Women's Soccer Alumni Group

The Duke Women's Soccer Alumni Association aims to keep Duke women's soccer players connected to the university, to the community, and to each other. For more information, click here.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

NC Nu Alumni Association of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity was founded at Duke on Feb 20, 1939 as the 131st chapter. The Association is celebrating its 75th Anniversary this year. Known as the "True Gentleman" Fraternity, SAE's values include "Fraternity, Loyalty, Friendship, & Honor". The Fraternity was founded on March 9, 1856 and recently celebrated its 150th Anniversary. SAE has over 275,000 initiates, 215 chapters, and 10,000 undergraduate member. The NC Nu Association has 1,700 total initiates. For more information, click here.

Phi Delta Theta

Founded in 1878, the North Carolina Alpha chapter of Phi Delta Theta is one of Duke?s oldest fraternities with history running back to when Duke was Trinity College. The fraternity of Edmund Pratt, William Preston Few, and Peter Nicholas, Phi Delta Theta is about two things: giving our members a fun and exciting experience of brotherhood, and providing leadership opportunities and other skills which help our alumni succeed throughout the world. For more information, click here.

Project WILD

Project WILD (Wilderness Initiatives for Learning at Duke) provides experiential education opportunities for students. The primary component of the program is the wilderness-based pre-orientation programs for incoming first-year students. Started in 1974 Project Wild is unique among university based outdoor programs because it is entirely staffed and organized by students. This affinity site helps alumni stay connected with the program and with each other. To read more, click here.

DukeLAN

For more information, click here.
Fuqua graduates, go to Fuqua Pride.

Duke PT Alumni Association

For more information, click here.

Duke University Latino Alumni Association

For more information, click here.