Harry Boyte article on Building Democracy Colleges
Harry Boyte, Director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College, asked me to share with the NCDD community an article he co-wrote with Blase Scarnati for the Huffington Post...
View ArticleInaugural Civic Summit Held at Winona State University
We spotted an interesting report over in the news section of the National Issues Forums website shared by Kara Lindaman, an associate professor at Winona State University, featuring a civic summit run...
View ArticleHow Should Higher Education Help Us Create the Society We Want?
In April, the National Issues Forums began encouraging dialogues focused on the role of higher ed in our society centered around their latest issue guide Shaping Our Future: How Should Higher Education...
View ArticleHabermas and critical theory (a primer from Peter Levine)
Peter Levine is in the middle of co-teaching his Summer Institute of Civic Studies and using his blog to share his notes for roughly half of the 18 topics they cover in their extraordinary class....
View Article“Shaping Our Future” Launch on Sept. 4 in Washington DC
Our friend Harry Boyte, National Coordinator of the American Commonwealth Partnership, wanted NCDDers to be aware of the Shaping Our Future launch event taking place on September 4th in DC. Below is...
View ArticleVideo from the “Shaping Our Future” initiative event now available
As we shared earlier this month, the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI), in association with the American Commonwealth Partnership, launched their latest year-long national dialogue initiative,...
View ArticleUniversity of Wisconsin-Extension launches certificate program in Inclusive...
What kind of leadership is important in creating inclusive and engaged organizations and communities? What are the skills, knowledge, and mindset needed to make this happen? How can we work together...
View ArticleKettering’s Connections 2012 Now Available
Focusing on “Educating for Democracy” The Kettering Foundation’s Connections series is an annual publication which focuses on a central issue or particular area of Kettering research. This year,...
View ArticleWebinar on “Shaping Our Future” Forums This Friday
We received the following announcement today from the National Issues Forums Institute‘s Patty Dineen for a fantastic webinar being held this Friday. Since this is a little last minute, I’m just going...
View ArticleCertificate Program in DDPE launching this spring at KSU
NCDD is proud to join our friends at Kansas State University in announcing that KSU is the new home for the much-touted certificate program in Dialogue, Deliberation, and Public Engagement (DDPE). As...
View ArticleCall for Nominations for the John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in...
Nomination materials for the 2013 Saltmarsh Award are due Monday, April 8, 2013. The award is given in recognition of exemplary early-career leaders who are advancing the wider civic engagement...
View ArticleSurveying the D&D Territory of a City: Lessons from Chicago
This extraordinary post was submitted by NCDD supporting member Janice Thomson. Janice has been working in collaboration with UIC’s Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement to map the D&D terrain...
View ArticleUpdate on NIF’s National Dialogue on Higher Ed
As many of you may know, our friends at the National Issues Forums Institute have been engaged in an ongoing national dialogue series based on one of their latest issue guides titled “Shaping Our...
View ArticleSubmissions welcome for the National Collegiate Dialogue on Race Relations
This post was submitted by Janice Ellis of USAonRace.com, an NCDD organizational member. Please send all articles, position statements, well-framed questions, papers, or video lectures to Janice at...
View ArticleEngaging Students on Policy with Choicework
We wanted to share a post from our friends at Public Agenda on the usefulness of their Choicework approach for teaching and engaging students in discussion about public policy, even when they are jaded...
View ArticleDisaporas in Dialogue (Featured D&D Story)
Today we’d like to feature another great example of dialogue and deliberation in action, the Diasporas in Dialogue project. This mini case study was submitted by Dr. Barbara Tint via NCDD’s new...
View ArticleRegister for the Global Challenges Institute TODAY
We just heard about a great opportunity to participate in the American Democracy Project’s 2013 Global Challenges Institute on the National Issues Forum Institute’s news feed, and the deadline to...
View ArticleThe Martin Carcasson Crew at NCDD Seattle
With Candace Karlin, Kacey Bull, Jack Becker, Carina Mullen, Dilan Sutliff, and Mar Parsaye At the 2012 NCDD national conference in Seattle, NCDD member and filmmaker Jeffrey Abelson sat down with over...
View ArticleCivic Studies Field Continues to Grow
This post comes via Dr. Peter Levine, a civics scholar, philosopher, and NCDD supporting member. Peter recently announced on his blog that he will be helping convene a “civics studies mini-conference”...
View ArticleAnnouncing the New Journal of Dialogue Studies
We were pleased to learn recently about the creation of the Journal of Dialogue Studies, a brand new academic publication dedicated to the theory and practice of dialogue. The JDS will be published by...
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