Civic and Civil Discourse: A Strategy for Fall 2024 and Beyond In-Person
This workshop will share strategies and benefits to facilitating civic and civil discourse to provide safe, respectful, informed, and purposeful conversation across lines of difference. The 2023-2024 academic year saw polarization and division across higher education, and the coming academic year may bring continued unrest with a divisive presidential election, protests over ongoing international conflict, and free speech controversies. Buffalo State’s classrooms and campus activities are vital to educating the next generation to be active and effective participants of our democracy. Structured civic and civil dialogue can provide opportunities for students to learn to talk across differences, bridge divides, and address public problems and can be integrated in and out of the classroom to discuss various viewpoints with the intent to learn, understand, and engage in better dialogue across difference.
Presenter: Laura Hill Rao and John Draeger
- Date:
- Thursday, September 5, 2024
- Time:
- 12:15pm - 1:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Butler 318
- Building:
- E. H. Butler Library
- Categories:
- Teaching and Learning Center