On Saturday the most community members ever volunteered during Pisgah Project Day, the annual Pisgah National Forest clean-up and trail maintenance event that fell on Earth Day this year.
Under normal circumstances, the Duke Leadership Academy offers participants a chance to challenge themselves, build connections and harness their collective brain power to offer Duke leaders insights into how Duke can work better. But the academy’s 2020-21 class, which graduated from the program in December 2021, operated under nothing close to normal circumstances, convening in early 2020, prior to the pandemic, but then COVID-19 arrived, which put the academy on pause.