Faculty Institute

Ten practices that combine practical teaching strategies with hands-on activities to help students engage thoughtfully and listen critically.

Janett Cordovés, Senior Program Director, and Leila Brammer, Faculty Fellow, discuss the importance of engaging across difference for a healthy democracy.

Janett Cordovés, Senior Program Director, and two Faculty Fellows share how the Faculty Institute is reshaping campus culture around fostering civil discourse.

Janett Cordovés, Senior Program Director, and two Faculty Fellows share how the Faculty Institute is an effective intervention to help reinstitute the democratic aim of higher education.

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.

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.

Dr. Britt shares insights into her Faculty Institute experience and how it has impacted her classroom instruction.

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.