Impact

“You’ve already done the hard work on our campus: listening, debating, compromising, and reaching across differences. Please carry those skills with you.” See more from these powerful commencement speeches.

Read Rajiv Vinnakota and coalition voices Marlene Tromp, Lori S. White, Tania Tetlow, Roslyn Clark Artis, and Michael Roth featured in The New Yorker. Emma O. Green’s article discusses the ongoing work across higher education to help our students develop the skills they need to live in a productive democracy. The examples here underscore our mission to equip America’s next generation with the necessary civic skills to navigate a divided nation and lead effectively.

Inaugural progress report highlights the remarkable strides college presidents have made in fostering free expression, critical inquiry, and civil discourse during an exceptionally challenging year for higher education.

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.

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.

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.

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.