Browsing by Author "Hanna, Andrew Leon"

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    K-Ville: A World of Its Own
    (2014-09-26) Hanna, Andrew Leon
    "K-Ville: A World of Its Own" is an ethnography of one of the most storied and well-known Duke University traditions: the weeks-long campout on the grounds near Cameron Indoor Stadium before the Duke-UNC home basketball game. Andrew Leon Hanna, a freshman at the time, gives the reader an in-depth, personal look at the mysteries and idiosyncrasies of this Duke tradition from his own lens and the lens of other "tenters." Ultimately, the paper paints a picture of K-Ville from Duke students' eyes while exploring the unique positive and negative impacts it has on the Duke University experience and community.
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    Socio-Economic Mobility of Youths: Factors, Obstacles, and Potential Solutions
    (2014-09-26) Hanna, Andrew Leon
    From early childhood to young adulthood, there are several key obstacles to the ability of a young person to improve his or her socioeconomic status. These include availability of quality early childhood education, level of peer support during adolescence, secondary school funding and quality, and skills development and job matching as a young adult. This article explores the dynamics of these critical obstacles, analyzes initiatives that are successfully helping young people overcome these obstacles around the world, and makes policy suggestions to create a society in which young people have strong opportunities to fulfill their potentials and advance socioeconomically. The article focuses on socioeconomic mobility of young people specifically in the United States, though it draws on examples of successful models from all over the globe.
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    The Global Youth Unemployment Crisis: Exploring Successful Initiatives and Partnering with Youths
    (2014-08-21) Hanna, Andrew Leon
    Labeled the “global youth unemployment disaster” by world leaders, the issue of youth unemployment is one that demands the attention of governments, businesses, and NGOs in developing and developed economies alike. Globally, youths are three times more likely than adults to be unemployed, and over 350 million young people are not engaged in education, employment, or training (NEET). With a demographic bulge that means about 3.5 billion global citizens are below the age of 25, there is a high level of urgency in addressing this concern. This study first conducts a region-by-region analysis of five areas affected greatly by youth unemployment, analyzing factors unique to particular areas and common aspects of the problem. In exploring four shared issues – a skills gap between students and employers, a lack of skills among NEETs, a lack of awareness of job opportunities, and a lack of support for youth-led entrepreneurship – this study identifies five groups of corresponding initiatives and policies that have had success and can potentially be scaled. These solutions include apprenticeship programs for students, skills-building initiatives for unengaged youths, more prevalent vocational schooling, job awareness-raising initiatives, and programs to invest in and incentivize youth-led entrepreneurship. The study then analyzes the perspective of young people themselves regarding these problems and solutions, and asks for their own ideas. The “Global Youth Leader Questionnaire,” a web-based survey taken by 50 global youth leaders from 30 nations, gathered results that include young leaders’ perspectives on the realities of life as an unemployed youth, evaluations of the potential solutions discussed, ideas for other solutions, accounts of youth-led development initiatives that are working in their countries, and views on the state of youth involvement in decision-making. Finally, the study proposes that the best way for institutions – governments, businesses, educational institutions, and NGOs – to go about designing, scaling up, and driving impactful initiatives is to partner with youths, harnessing their ideas and abilities in tackling the challenge of youth unemployment.