Facilitating Conversations for Change: Leading Constructive Dialogues
This recorded session offers ideas and tools to facilitate constructive conversations on campus and lead inclusive dialogues with students, staff, and faculty. The session draws on Practicing Democracy: A Toolkit for Educating Civic Professionals by Nick Longo (coming early 2023), a guide on using civic prompts to educate future citizen professionals. This recorded session is available to Campus Compact members only. Learn how to get started with a compact.org user account to access the recording. Watch the recording →
Workshop Recording: Creating Space for Democracy: Methods for Promoting Civil Discourse in Higher Education
This video recording of Campus Compact’s national workshop offers ideas and practices for promoting free spaces for civil discourse in classroom, student life, and community settings. How can educators use civil discourse to address increasing polarization and free speech controversies on campus? Drawing on lessons from Creating Space for Democracy (Stylus/Campus Compact/AAC&U), this workshop introduced various methods of dialogue and deliberation, including case study examples from leading dialogue practitioners. Moderator: Nicholas Longo, Campus Compact Deliberative Dialogue Fellow, Professor in the Department of Global Studies & Faculty Fellow for Engaged Scholarship with the Center for Teaching Excellence, Providence College Panelists: Sara Mehltretter Drury, Vice…
Dialogue Resources for Higher Education
Dialogue is a process in which groups come together to share experiences around issues that are often avoided or argued toward the goal of informed decision making. Dialogue involves mutual understanding, suspending judgment, and listening deeply, rather than seeking to win. Campuses engaged in dialogue use the tool to engage with diverse viewpoints in true civil discourse. A community that has a high level of dialogue skill creates enhanced experiences in co-curricular life, civic engagement, and curricular environments. Dialogue equips students, faculty, and staff with the skills to build shared understanding of challenges, to empathize with experiences very different from…
