A recent piece by University of Virginia senior Emma Camp describing her experience of feeling silenced in campus conversations about controversial issues created a bit of a firestorm. Conservatives ...

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly two hours on Feb. 24, Pope Francis listened to Catholic university students from across the Americas who shared with him their personal experiences, insights, frustrations and ideas ...

Higher education is finding a newfound appreciation for the importance of its students developing strong interpersonal communication skills in response to both employer demands and the political ...

Trinity College student Tahseen Aliahmad and his two friends made their way to Burlington for Thanksgiving break in late November, with plans to stay with his friend’s uncle. Aliahmad, Hisham Awartani ...

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 ...

This article is featured in the 2024 Freshman special issue. Between the regular Town meetings, historical first-in-the-nation primary and the country’s second-largest legislature — trailing only the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We fear each other because we don’t know each other.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fountain Valley High School senior Cielo Chavarria said she thinks of this quote when she thinks of “Days of ...