What’s the best way to facilitate civil discourse and encourage critical inquiry in the classroom?  

Dispatch from the Faculty Institute, which helps interdisciplinary educators across the country gain the skills and confidence to redesign or create new courses that promote dialogue across difference and become champions of this work on their campuses.

Rajiv Vinnakota talks with The Best of Our Knowledge host Jody Cowan about the work of College Presidents for Civic Preparedness in preparing students for civic life.

Raj Vinnakota talks with Kristen Cambell, CEO of PACE, and Jeremy Haefner, Chancellor, University of Denver, on the Keeping PACE podcast about the challenges colleges face when they try to take on civic preparation in a major way.

5 recommendations for campus leaders as they prepare for student protests to resume this fall.

10 presidents join the consortium of leaders of diverse institutions from across the country who are uniting to advance higher education’s pivotal role in preparing students to be engaged citizens.

A bold, fresh approach nurtures civic readiness, embraces diversity, and fosters free expression in higher education.

Faculty are provided the resources, support, and opportunities to hear and work with experts and one another and to apply and practice civil discourse.

Measurement Working Group participants were provided tools, resources, support, and peer convenings to strengthen their own approaches to assessing civic learning and leadership.

The work of College Presidents for Civic Preparedness in upholding free expression, civil discourse, and critical inquiry on campuses is highlighted in this Forbes article.

Presidents have implemented programming on their campuses to advance the principles of free expression, civil discourse, and critical inquiry.

College presidents reference the civic commitments in their convocation speeches.

Participating presidents will take campus-specific and collective action, reflecting three shared Civic Commitments.

Dispatch from University of Chicago’s Inaugural Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression

The Faculty Institute is having a positive impact on creating a network of faculty, as well as pedagogical and practical changes to classroom design and the field of higher education in general.

Higher education is charged to help shape the next generation of empowered citizens. Yet we’re seeing weekly headlines about the debate and demise of free expression and critical inquiry on college campuses.

Higher ed must take the lead in preparing students with the interpersonal skills necessary for civil discourse and civic engagement.

Dispatch from the Democracy in Action convening at Wesleyan University

Dispatch from the from the College Presidents for Civic Preparedness convening at Howard University.

The Institute for Citizens & Scholars president Rajiv Vinnakota gave the Winter Commencement address at the University of Pittsburgh.

Wide-ranging conversation touches on free speech, ways to equip students with civic skills and how to prepare faculty to facilitate deliberative debate in their classrooms.

From facilitating guest lectures to introducing faculty training on civil discourse and creating student programming around civic skills, participating institutions are recentering their commitment to developing thoughtful, effective citizens.

Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway talks about the importance of free speech, respectful debate, and civility.

Attendees shared ideas on how to support free speech and intellectual diversity on their respective campuses.

Media highlights of the launch of Campus Call for Free Expression.

President Jonathan Holloway welcomes Rajiv Vinnakota to the Rutgers campus for the first 2023 Byrne Seminar Citizenship, Institutions, and the Public.

The cracks in the foundation of our republic are too large to ignore; our democracy is in crisis.

Check out media highlights from the launch of Campus Call for Free Expression.

Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University shares how promoting civic literacy and political participation is a great step in helping universities make a deeper contribution to public life.

Presidents from public flagship universities, Ivy-plus campuses, HBCUs, STEM-focused schools, liberal arts colleges, and faith-based institutions are uniting to prepare today’s youth to be well-informed, engaged, and committed citizens