Service Opportunities In Leadership
SOL is an intensive 12-month leadership program for Duke undergraduates that combines academic study, research service learning, mentoring, and leadership training.
Program
The Hart Leadership Program challenges students to practice the art of leadership in public life.
As the first endowed leadership program for undergraduates in country, we began offering classes in 1987. Since then, more than 10,000 Duke undergraduate students have taken our courses and participated in our experiential learning programming. We have worked with hundreds of community partners in North Carolina, across the United States, and around the world.
The Hart Fellowship Program
The Hart Fellowship Program offers recent Duke graduates ten-month fellowships with domestic and international community-based organizations.
Enterprising Leadership Initiative
ELI challenges undergraduates and alumni to make positive contributions to society and to pursue innovative ideas that enhance communities.
Research Service-Learning Pathway
The RSL Pathway fuses research, service and critical reflection with core public policy courses.
Co-Curricular Projects
Co-Curricular Projects include internship opportunities for public policy majors, as well as a speaker series about leadership and politics that is open to all undergraduate students at Duke University.
Leadership and Arts Policy Internship
LAPI provides an opportunity for public policy majors to be awarded up to $4,000 for summer internships related to arts policy. LAPI emerged from Leadership and the Arts in New York, a popular, semester-long immersion program created by Bruce Payne, the founding director of the Hart Leadership Program.
Latest HLP Stories
Tony Brown
Tony Brown came from the corporate world to become a Professor of the Practice at Sanford School of Public Policy in 1993. Tony’s approach centers on action-oriented learning that produces real results and challenges students to define their own moral fiber and values.
Robert Korstad
Robert Korstad, Professor of Public Policy Studies and History, served as director of Hart Leadership Program from 1995-2001. He was instrumental in the creation of Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL) and the Hart Fellows Program.
Alma Blount
Alma Blount was director of the Hart Leadership Program from 2001 to 2018. She began teaching adaptive leadership at Duke in 1994, and applied her interests in politics, narrative writing, and systems thinking to the way she ran Service Opportunities in Leadership.