Bridge-building Resources to Help Campuses Prepare for a Challenging Fall
Join our panel and mini-training on August 8 to learn from organizations specializing in dialogue across differences. Equip your campus with the tools needed to navigate the 2024 election season effectively.
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Enhance campus dialogue as you prepare for 2024 elections.
Join us for a panel and mini-training on August 8th, featuring leading organizations such as Essential Partners, Sustained Dialogue Institute, Interactivity Foundation, and Unify America. Through this workshop you will explore crucial strategies for fostering dialogue across differences, preparing your campus community for the 2024 elections.
In this non-partisan initiative you will discover how engaging with diverse perspectives can enhance students’ critical thinking and civic engagement. You won’t want to miss this excellent opportunity to learn to cultivate a culture of constructive dialogue amidst differing viewpoints, which is vital for a thriving democratic environment.
Who should participate?
- Faculty
- Staff
- Administrators
- Librarians
How will you benefit?
- Develop skills for effective dialogue strategies crucial for navigating diverse perspectives
- Gain valuable tools and knowledge essential for effective civic engagement and democratic participation
- Foster a more inclusive campus climate by enhancing dialogue across differences
- Connect with colleagues to build a culture voter education and engagement on campus
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Essential Partners: Founded in 1989, Essential Partners (EP) helps people build relationships across differences to address their communities’ most pressing challenges. On campuses and in classrooms, EP’s research-based approach to depolarization, Reflective Structured Dialogue, equips people to engage in authentic, constructive, courageous conversations about differing perspectives and divisive issues.
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Interactivity Foundation’s Collaborative Discussion Project: In May 2021, the Interactivity Foundation launched the Collaborative Discussion Project in partnership with a team of dialogue and deliberation experts, practitioners, and educators. The project includes an open access toolkit containing over 60 ready-to-use, interactive, learning activities designed to support creative, critical, culturally responsive, and civic collaboration skills.
Want to dive deeper? Here are some ways you can get more involved with the Interactivity Foundation (IF) and the Collaborative Discussion Project (CDP):
- Become a Collaborative Discussion Coach! Register now for a Fall 2024 Coach Training.
- Subscribe to the CDP Newsletter to stay up to date on trainings, workshops, gatherings, and new resources & toolkit activities
- Register for a CDP Workshop on September 5: Preparing for Collaborative Discussions in Classrooms and Campuses this Fall
- Subscribe to the IF Newsletter and explore our free resources
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Sustained Dialogue Institute’s Campus Network: Sustained Dialogue is a unique initiative that brings together students (and sometimes faculty and staff) who wouldn’t usually cross paths to talk about issues they might shy away from. It provides the necessary conditions for open discussions.
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Unify America: Unify America is a national nonprofit on a mission to replace political fighting with collaborative problem solving. We build virtual interactive experiences to help students bust out of their bubbles, build civic muscles, and work together to tackle our country’s biggest challenges.
- Overview slides
- Breakout Room slides
- Unify Challenge College Bowl Website
- College Bowl
- The Deep Dive
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