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The “Civic Leadership: How Are We Doing?” panel featured CMC President Hiram Chodosh, Citizens & Scholars President Raj Vinnakota, and the Kravis Lab for Civic Leadership’s Vernon Grigg .

Citizens & Scholars president Rajiv Vinnakota alongside Pitt experts emphasized universities’ crucial role in fostering civic preparedness through informed participation and bridging diverse perspectives.

James Madison University welcomes Raj Vinnakota, president of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, as the keynote speaker for Constitution Day.

Raj Vinnakota, President of Citizens & Scholars, served as the keynote speaker at Gettysburg College to kick off its Conversations for Change Initiative focused on civil discourse.

College presidents reference the civic commitments in their convocation speeches.

Dispatch from the Democracy in Action convening at Wesleyan University

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

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.

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

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