Training our students to be engaged, well-informed, and effective citizens is an urgent imperative for all our schools, and pervades everything we do. It is hard to overstate what is at stake.
- Barbara Altmann
Activation Plan
Below is an overview of some campus activities:
- Constructive Dialogue Institute: Al 2024 first-year students required to complete Perspectives program to foster “openness to diverse perspectives…and skills to engage in conversations across lines of difference.” Senior staff, house deans, housing assistants, and club leaders will also take the training.
- F&M Votes: Nonpartisan coalition of Franklin & Marshall College students, faculty and professional staff engaged in voter registration, education and motivation activities.
- F&M Week of Inclusion: All emplovees and students invited to submit proposals for workshops on the theme “Back to Basic: Engaging in Empathetic Discourse.”
- Center for Politics and Public Affairs: “Deliberative democracy” forums – four deliberative “mini-publics” (to date) in the community, more planned for the coming months.
- Courageous Dialogues: sponsored by President’s OFC and OFC of Community and Belonging, an opportunity to train faculty and staff to host courageous dialogues on challenging global issues.
- F&M Harrisburg Practicum: credit-bearing student internships in state offices at the Capitol in Harrisburg, PA.
Barbara Altmann
President, Franklin & Marshall College
Join the growing consoritum of campus leaders urgently committed to collectively restoring higher education’s role in democracy.
Barbara Altmann
President, Franklin & Marshall College
Below is an overview of some campus activities:
- Constructive Dialogue Institute: Al 2024 first-year students required to complete Perspectives program to foster “openness to diverse perspectives…and skills to engage in conversations across lines of difference.” Senior staff, house deans, housing assistants, and club leaders will also take the training.
- F&M Votes: Nonpartisan coalition of Franklin & Marshall College students, faculty and professional staff engaged in voter registration, education and motivation activities.
- F&M Week of Inclusion: All emplovees and students invited to submit proposals for workshops on the theme “Back to Basic: Engaging in Empathetic Discourse.”
- Center for Politics and Public Affairs: “Deliberative democracy” forums – four deliberative “mini-publics” (to date) in the community, more planned for the coming months.
- Courageous Dialogues: sponsored by President’s OFC and OFC of Community and Belonging, an opportunity to train faculty and staff to host courageous dialogues on challenging global issues.
- F&M Harrisburg Practicum: credit-bearing student internships in state offices at the Capitol in Harrisburg, PA.
Training our students to be engaged, well-informed, and effective citizens is an urgent imperative for all our schools, and pervades everything we do. It is hard to overstate what is at stake.
- Barbara Altmann