10:30 – 11:30 a.m. 
Special Walking Tour of West Campus 1
Tour meets in the Homecoming Hub on the Plaza (outside Bryan Center) 

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Alumni Admissions Information Session 
Von Canon Hall, lower level, Bryan Center 
Christoph Guttentag, dean of Undergraduate Admissions, will explain the process and challenges of selecting the entering class of undergraduates each year, as well as the admissions process for children and grandchildren of alumni. Dean Guttentag and Carole LeVine, director of alumni admissions program, will be available to answer questions.

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Special Walking Tour of West Campus 2
Tour meets in the Homecoming Hub on the Plaza (outside Bryan Center)

3:00 – 5:00 p.m. 
Experiences in Innovation Exclusive Tours!

Duke Libraries Rare Book and Restoration Tour
View rare manuscripts while visiting the library’s restoration and conservation workshop, and learn how Duke students are able to study and preserve these unique and valuable collections.

Duke Campus Farm
See how Duke promotes the “farm-to-table” movement during a tour of the one-acre site where students, faculty, and the local community take a hands-on approach to food studies and farming.

Small Town Records
Visit this student-run recording studio where aspiring musicians take advantage of free recording time and performance space to record and market their musical talents.

Nasher Museum of Art
Enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at the Nasher Museum and discover how students access artwork for detailed studies in the classroom beneath the museum.

5:00 p.m.
Duke Homecoming Pep Rally
Homecoming Hub on the Plaza (outside Bryan Center)

8:00 – 9:30 p.m. 
Reception for Alumni Leaders
Scharf Hall, Michael W. Krzyzewski Center for Athletic Excellence (adjacent to Cameron Indoor Stadium)
Let us celebrate you and your contributions to the Duke community at this invitation-only reception for special Duke volunteers. The event is hosted by the Executive Committee of the Duke Alumni Association Board of Directors.

9:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.
President Brodhead’s Homecoming Dance
K-ville Quad and Wilson Gym, West Campus

8:15 – 10:15 a.m.
Alumni Leadership Weekend Breakfast and Keynote Presentation
Von Canon Hall, lower level, Bryan Center
Enjoy a casual continental breakfast prior to the Alumni Leadership Weekend’s keynote address

8:15 – 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
NOW YOU SEE IT: Attention, Innovation, and the Future of Learning
A talk by Cathy N. Davidson, Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University
When Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics called it a waste of money. Yet when students found academic uses for the brand new music devices in virtually every discipline, the iPod experiment proved to be a classic example of the power of disruption – a way of refocusing attention to illuminate unseen possibilities. Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at the time of the iPod experiment, Cathy N. Davidson sees this kind of innovation as the heart of a new way of collaborative, interactive learning ideal for students facing a changing, global future. Using cutting-edge research on the brain and learning, she shows how the phenomenon of “attention blindness” shapes our lives, and how it has led to one of the greatest problems of our historical moment: Although we email, blog, tweet, and text as if by instinct, too many of us toil in schools and workplaces designed for the last century, not the one in which we live.

We can change that. Fifteen years into industrial-era management, the medieval university began its metamorphosis into the modern twentieth-century research university. Fifteen years after the commercialization of the Internet and the World Wide Web, we are right on time to begin that process of transformation for our own era. This inspiring talk helps us to think in historical, theoretical, and practical ways about how, as individuals and institutions, we can learn new ways to thrive in the interactive, digital, global world we already inhabit.

10:30 a.m. – Noon
Alumni Leadership Weekend’s Experiences in Innovation Educational Tracks

Innovation in Teaching
Discover how Duke’s most accomplished faculty and staff are changing the landscape of teaching through today’s cutting edge technology! Committed Sustainability at Duke Explore Duke’s vision for promoting long-term environmental sustainability from food to housing and what part students play in shaping Duke’s sustainable future!

Entrepreneurship at Duke
With innovation at the forefront of everyone’s minds, learn from students and alumni in entrepreneurial programs on what it takes to stay on the cusp of the “next big thing.”

Outstanding Medicine at Duke: Innovation for the Social Good
Duke Medicine sets itself apart from competing institutions due to their tenacious research, ideas and commitment to changing the way we practice medicine. Learn about revolutionary devices, programs and even teaching methods that keep Duke at the top!

Committed Sustainability at Duke
Explore Duke’s vision for promoting long-term environmental sustainability from food to housing and what part students play in shaping Duke’s sustainable future!

12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Alumni Leadership Recognition Lunch
Great Hall, West Union Building
One of Duke's strengths is the commitment of alumni—many of whom serve the university for decades after graduation. They include class chairs who organize reunions, create scholarship funds, plan regional activities, manage teams of alumni interviewers, and otherwise keep classmates connected with each other and with Duke. After enjoying lunch together, President Brodhead will honor the 2011 Charles A. Dukes award winners and the 2011 Forever Duke award winners. Invitation only

3:30 p.m.
Duke Football vs. Tulane
Wallace Wade Stadium Cheer for football and Coach Cutcliffe when the Blue Devils take to the gridiron against the Green Wave in Wallace Wade Stadium. Please remember to wear Duke Blue to the game to make this a “blue-out!” game!

Duke Football vs. Tulane on-field recognition
All volunteers for Duke are invited to be recognized on the field during the football game. All those alumni volunteers who are interested in coming to the field should to proceed to Gate 17 with five minutes left to go in half time. As a group, we will be recognized during the first time-out of the third quarter. (All Duke volunteers are invited to join us on the field, so please encourage all those Duke volunteers who are in your group to come as well!)