Community Engagement at Durham Tech

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Serving our community is important to Durham Tech. In fact, our mission and strategic initiatives clearly commit us to engaging with our communities in ways that not only help those we serve, but also allow us as a college to learn. Service, in other words, allows us to extend the walls of our classrooms and the boundaries of our campuses, providing students, faculty, and staff with hands-on, real-world experiences while helping others.

Explore our pages and find out how to get involved! Contact us for more information.

Announcements and Upcoming Events

Check out our Volunteer Opportunities page for volunteer workdays! If you’re looking for other ways to serve, email volunteer@durhamtech.edu with questions.

The Spring 2013 Community Engagement Newsletter is now available!

The Veggie Van, a program of the Community Nutrition Partnership, will begin delivering boxes of fresh fruit and vegetables to campus each week beginning Thursday, January 24. Distributions will take place from noon – 2 p.m. on the east patio of the Collins Building. All produce is grown by NC farmers and boxes are available on a sliding scale depending on one's ability to pay.

Please contact veggievan@cnpnc.org with questions.

Durham Tech Campus Harvest Food Pantry is Now Open!

We are asking students, faculty, and staff to donate non-perishable food items in the weeks leading up to the grand opening. Donation bins are at the following locations across campus:
Phillips Building, room 310A - The future location of our food pantry!
Continuing Education Center Lobby
Newton Building, room 421
Educational Resources Center, room 510
Durham Tech/GlaxoWellcome Technology Center Lobby
Orange County Campus
Northern Durham Center

All non-perishable food items that are not expired or damaged are welcome. High-need items are:
Peanut butter
Pasta
Cereal
Canned fruit and vegetables
Canned meats (such as tuna or Spam)
Soups
Ready-to-eat items like granola bars and Easy Mac

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“Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Excerpted from “The Drum Major Instinct,” 1968.

Durham Technical Community College
1637 Lawson Street
Durham, NC 27703
919-536-7200