Trinity College of Arts & Sciences for Undergraduates, Duke University

Trinity College of Arts & Sciences for Undergraduates, Duke University Duke University Trinity College

Hart Leadership Program

The Hart Leadership Program was founded in 1986 with a generous gift from the Milledge A. Hart III Family Endowment.

Since the program’s inception in 1986, nearly 7,500 students have taken a leadership course or participated in one of our experiential learning programs.

We have three experiential learning programs: Enterprising Leadership Incubator, Service Opportunities in Leadership and Hart Fellows.

Since 1995, interns and fellows have conducted community-based projects with partner organizations in 13 U.S. cities and 35 countries. Through our courses and experiential learning programs, we have worked with more than 200 community partners, including 45 international organizations.

In 2006-2007, we offered 18 leadership courses on topics such as civic participation, political engagement, social entrepreneurship, ethics and public life, and organizational change and development.

 

Hart Leadership; Adam Yoffle

Adam Yoffle - SOL Intern
Through his Service Opportunities in Leadership internship in South Africa this summer, Adam Yoffie saw how poverty and high unemployment lead youth to turn to crime, gangs and guns. "Once at the forefront of anti-apartheid activism," he says, "the younger generation currently constitutes the largest percentage of victims of gun violence."