Our Board of Trustees has affirmed the educational value of a diverse and fully inclusive campus community, one that is enriched by persons of different backgrounds, points of view, cultures, socioeconomic status, and other diverse characteristics.
Such a diverse campus community fosters a diversity of thought and an intellectual diversity in which members of our campus community can be comfortable in speaking freely about their ideas and thereby contribute to a marketplace of ideas in which people have the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, learn, and discuss any issue while also greatly valuing civility and mutual respect in our discourse.
- Heterodox Academy created a short video explaining the importance of broad perspectives and the role of confirmation bias. Heterodox Academy is a nonpartisan collaborative of 5,000+ professors, educators, administrators, staff, and students committed to research, open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement.
- This manual was produced by the Bipartisan Policy Center and offers helpful recommendations for college presidents and senior leadership teams, trustees, faculty, athletic directors and coaches, and student affairs staff. (Link provided is the most recent document available, dated November 2021.)
- A nonpartisan organization based at the University of Arizona that promotes healthy and constructive dialogue in political debate.
- American University provides suggestions for fostering respectful conversations in classrooms.
- The University of Michigan offers strategies to help instructors lead classroom discussions on complex issues.
- UC Berkeley provides instructional tools for fostering accessible and inclusive discussions.
- Teaching Tolerance provides a toolkit for facilitating difficult conversations.
- Vanderbilt University offers a guide for instructors to navigate challenging discussions.
- Harvard鈥檚 Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning includes tips for managing challenging conversations.
- Michael Sandel, Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard, delivers a TED Talk.
- : UTC鈥檚 College of Health, Education, and Professional Studies is dedicated to the revitalization of civic education in American schools and universities, and the equipping of a new generation of thoughtful citizens for the practice of democracy.