With three classes of Student U students entering high school this year, the high school program has quickly grown to match the size of the middle school program. With the motto “We are college bound,” this summer students had the opportunity to participate in a...
Continue readingThe Herald-Sun DURHAM – Students in the Collage Project have a few things to say about food: We “cram, devour, dine, and inhale” food, as well as “pork out.” We come together to eat “in mosques and state parks, in synagogues and gas stations,” and at Chuck...
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Continue readingThe Herald-Sun DURHAM – Hope Roberts knelt on a picnic bench at Durham Academy’s middle school campus on Friday morning, plucking buttered corn from a tray piled high with pale yellow cobs. Continue reading the article here....
Continue readingThe Herald-Sun Student U, Duke School and Durham Academy are teaming up for a week-long workshop Aug. 6-10 called the Collage Project. The goal is to expose rising seventh- and eighth-grade students to the arts as a tool for self-expression. Continue reading the article here....
Continue readingThe Carrboro Citizen When nonprofits collaborate, it typically results in increased services for those the organizations serve, and the collaboration of Farmer Foodshare and Student U is no exception, resulting in fresh local food, served three times a week, to about 240 kids in Durham. Continue reading...
Continue readingDurham Public Schools More than 200 Durham Public Schools middle and high school students have participated in Student U, a partnership with Duke University, North Carolina Central University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C. State University and the Durham communit Continue reading and watch...
Continue readingThe Herald Sun DURHAM -- The secret to educational success? It's simple, Dan Kimberg suggests -- Appreciate and nurture the brilliance in every child. Continue reading the article here....
Continue readingThe Herald Sun DURHAM -- As a Duke undergraduate, Dan Kimberg created Student U along with fellow Duke student Amanda Dorsey and UNC student Mary Williams -- and most of all, with the support of Durham, Kimberg said. Continue reading the article here....
Continue readingThe Herald-Sun I traded in my classroom for office work this summer. I am holding down the fort at our middle school. Not a strenuous job. No papers to grade, no lessons to plan, some filing to do, phones to answer, a new middle school director...
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