The Samuel DuBois Cook Center is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
What Effect Does Being a Historically Black College/University Have on Endowments? In research funded by the Cook Center, Dr. Gregory Price examines this relationship in new research published in the Du Bois Review. Dr. Price is a Professor of Economics at the University of New Orleans and was mentor in the first cohort of DITE….
Q+A: David Malone, Ph.D. Senior Faculty at the Duke Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Professor of the Practice in Education at Duke University David Malone, PhD, joined the Cook Center in 2014, when it first originated as the Duke Consortium on Social Equity. He is currently the Co-Director of the Working Group…
The Cook Center’s DITE program, which provides mentorship and support for tenure-track economists from underrepresented groups, is set to convene its fellows, mentors, and scholars from April 10-12 at Emory University’s Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. This convening is one of two that will take place this year for current fellows to have the opportunity…
Cook Center core faculty, Nancy MacLean, published an op-ed in the News & Observer titled “Duke leadership is letting down higher ed in a moment it should be fighting back.” In the piece, MacLean warns that American higher education is facing “the gravest menace to its mission in our history,” citing the Trump administration’s reported…
The Historic Durham Armory, the hopping location downtown that once featured acts from Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald and was the inspiration for Ernie Barnes’ The Sugar Shack, hosted another lively event this week: A celebration of the 10th cohort of Young Scholars from the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute. …
Sandra Santillan first encountered the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute as a high school student at Hillside High School, encouraged by a teacher who recognized her strong writing skills. “I thought I was in trouble,” she says, recalling how her teacher pulled her aside. Instead, the teacher introduced her to…
