Difficult Dialogues Initiative

Promoting Pluralism & Academic Freedom on Campus

Fall 2009 Convening of Difficult Dialogues Initiative Grantees

Posted by: Nichole

Date: August 18, 2009

This will be one of the last chances for grantees to come together to share best practices within the context of the DDI grant. Over the course of the Initiative, participating institutions have developed innovative pedagogical techniques for fostering dialogue in the classroom and for managing the dynamics generated in faculty development workshops. The fall 2009 meeting will offer an opportunity to highlight and discuss best practices with your colleagues. 

UCI Student Leadershp Summit

Posted by: Nichole

Date: April 8, 2009

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The UC Student Leadership Summit

Posted by: Nichole

Date: April 8, 2009

A state-wide gathering of student leaders who are committed to authentic and civil dialogue about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

Beyond Tolerance: A Campus Religious Diversity Kit

Posted by: Nichole

Date: March 23, 2009

NASPA, an organization of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, offers a kit co-sponsored by Education as Transformation to help campus student affairs administrators handle issues arising around questions of religous diversity on campus.

religious diversity and the making of meaning: implications for the classroom

Posted by: Nichole

Date: March 23, 2009

This is a link to a special issue of the journal Diversity & Democracy foccusing on how faculty members can incorporate discussion of religous diversity in their classrooms. 

New Journal: Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

Posted by: Nichole

Date: March 9, 2009

Beginning this March, the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education will publish quarterly to disseminate diversity relevant research, theory, and practice.

Web resources for diversity in higher education

Posted by: Nichole

Date: March 9, 2009

DiversityWeb provides a central location for exploring how to achieve the goal of placing diversity at the center of the higher education mission.

Teaching Democracy through Dialogue

Posted by: Nichole

Date: February 2, 2009

Democracy Lab uses online tools for incorporating dialogue about contemporary issues in coursework.  The project is sponsored through the Institute on the Common Good at Regis University in Boulder, CO. 

New Book: Doing Diversity in Higher Education

Posted by: Nichole

Date: January 24, 2009

Winnifred R. Brown-Glaude editor of a collection of essays by faculty on what it means to do “diversity in higher education” describes, in an interview, the themes--dismantling hostile microclimates, focusing on accomplishments,valuing diversity as an intellectual project, dealing with incomplete institutionalization--of the book.

Faith, Science, and Academic Freedom

Posted by: Nichole

Date: January 24, 2009

The AAUP issued reports on two cases in which colleges have been charged with violating due process and the academic freedom of professors whose research and teaching explore science and religion.