Deliberative Dialogues Program In High Demand
Deliberative Dialogues are guided conversations on a variety of topics often difficult to discuss. The program uses issue guides from the National Issues Forum Institute (NIFI) to direct conversations among small groups. Participants practice conversational skills as they learn to respect and appreciate the perspectives of others.
While the topics themselves might be polarizing, the format of the dialogue and corresponding issue reframes the topic in an effort to remove that polarization.
During this fall semester alone, 175 dialogues were held! Participants included 1850 students with 13 trained student facilitators.
Because the program has quickly grown to surpass the capacity of Center for Civic Engagement staff to meet all of the requests, the Center is looking to hire additional student facilitators.
$4,000 by December 31st
Please consider a gift today to help us reach our $4,000 goal by December 31.
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The Impact of Your Gift
Private support is needed at this time to cover the student facilitators' salaries for this academic year.
Your giving supports the Deliberative Dialogue program by covering the student facilitator pay. This program has an immediate and long term impact as it teaches skills that go beyond the classroom and collegiate experience.
“Students that have participated will be able to contribute to the depolarization of our country as they go out into their own communities after graduation.” - Harriett Steinbach, Assistant Director Center for Civic Engagement