Engaging Impasse: Nurturing a Culture of Dialogic Engagement on a University Campus

Engaging Impasse: Nurturing a Culture of Dialogic Engagement on a University Campus

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Universities have historically fostered spaces where students, faculty, staff, and administration can fruitfully engage in discussion around contentious issues.Current political divisions have had a chilling effect on these discussions inside and outside the classroom.To nurture a campus culture of dialogic engagement, the communication studies department in apac1/60/1/cw collaboration with the DEI office began a campus dialogue project that invited faculty, staff, students, and administration to participate in monthly dialogues focused on cultural impasse arcade smokey the bear belt topics.This 5-year project has demonstrated that university communication studies departments can be instrumental in helping community members cross organizational boundaries to engage in challenging dialogues when they are focused on engagement, facilitated by students, intentionally welcoming, and predictably organized.