Students participate in the Constructive Dialogue Perspectives program (photo by Scott Kissell). The Office of Transformational and Inclusive Excellence hopes to “expand and embed this program across ...

A Socratic dialogue is a conversation between two or more people involving a series of questions and answers, followed by ...

A September 2023 report from the Constructive Dialogue Institute found that 45 percent of students are afraid to express their opinions in the classroom out of fear of offending their peers, and ...

Johns Hopkins University is launching a new initiative to support undergraduate and graduate student efforts to promote respectful on-campus dialogue. Through the Student Blue Jay Dialogue Innovation ...

In our polarized society, the ability to hold respectful and civil discourse with individuals of diverse backgrounds is a lost art. However, the need for such discourse within higher education is ...

Nearly a hundred Stanford community members gathered on Tuesday evening to discuss civic engagement and the current state of politics in the fifth annual Dine & Dialogue, Democracy Day’s ...

Civic engagement across partisan divides is seemingly at an all-time low – recent polling shows that nearly half of college students would refuse to room with someone of the opposite political ...

Peter Coquillette, CSOM ’26, and Skyler Safriet, MCAS ’26 hosted a Braver Angels dialogue Monday, bringing students together to discuss self-censorship on campus. “In trying to spare students from ...

As educators, we intentionally create spaces for students to build trust. We accomplish this by setting expectations, presenting carefully crafted relevant activities, and offering them choices (Burns ...

On a Tuesday night in November, Lindsey Perlman logged onto Zoom with low expectations. Perlman, a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, was taking a class called “Civil Dialogue Seminar: Civic ...

Students discuss the debate at roundtable event. The Peacemaker Project organized the roundtable. (Jessica Neal) A week after the political debate event on campus, students from a Peacemaker Project ...