News - Archive 2012

February 28, 2012

Grace Zhou is a junior public policy major and Global Health Certificate student from Cleveland, Ohio.  In fall of 2010, Grace and a fellow Duke student, Alexandra MacLeish, founded an organization that works in Durham to inspire positive social behaviors through play.


February 21, 2012

Tony Brown, a professor at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy, has been honored for his course “Social Entrepreneurship in Action,” which has been the launching pad for a number of ongoing on-campus and off-campus organizations over the last 12 years.


February 21, 2012

Andrew S. Rosen, chairman and CEO of Kaplan Inc., and Jennifer Haygood, CFO for the N.C. Community College System, will discuss the future of higher education in a panel discussion at noon on Friday, Feb. 24, at Duke University.


January 31, 2012

(Republished with permission from the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research)

New York, NY— A report released today by The Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership focuses on the pervasive decline in segregation that occurred during the first decade of the twenty-first century. “The End of the Segregated Century: Racial Separation in America’s Neighborhood, 1890-2010” was co-authored by MI senior fellow and Harvard Professor of Economics Edward Glaeser and MI adjunct fellow and Duke University Professor of Public Policy Jacob Vigdor.


January 19, 2012

Facts, figures and wise cracks were tossed around the stage in equal measure Wednesday night, but Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson made it clear the federal budget and congressional gridlock are no laughing matters.


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