Friday, November 15, 2024 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm ET (1:30pm -2:30pm CT)
Session Overview:
Join us for a dynamic 1-hour virtual panel where ACS faculty and staff will share proven strategies for facilitating sensitive and challenging conversations within the classroom and across campus. Panelists will provide personal insights into fostering respectful, constructive dialogue, highlighting techniques they’ve successfully implemented in their own classrooms. This session will also open the floor to an interactive, cross-campus discussion, allowing participants to exchange ideas and explore effective ways to support our college communities during the post-election period.
Panelists:
Anene Ejikeme, Trinity University, ACS Mellon Fellow & Special Assistant to the Provost and Associate Professor, Department of History
Cynthia King, Furman University, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Excellence and Professor, Communications Studies
Graham Bullock, Davidson College, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Deliberative Citizenship Initiative
Ron Swain, Southwestern University, Chaplain and Director of Spiritual Life
Anna Drake Warshaw, President, Associated Colleges of the South (moderator)
Objectives:
- Learn about tools, models, and approaches to fostering respectful dialogue on controversial topics across ACS classrooms and campuses
- Create space to discuss challenges to and opportunities for civil discourse and dialogue post-election and in our heated political climate
Registrations for this session are now closed.