Showcasing Solutions for Better Campus Discourse

Is there a civil discourse crisis in higher education? It would be hard to read the pages of this website and think otherwise. Judging from the controversial speakers shouted down on campuses and the sessions canceled at scholarly meetings, the complicated and often combustible mix of academic freedom, free speech and opposition to hate speech has created a landscape seemingly littered with rhetorical land mines. In the larger context of divisiveness and apparent obstinacy in our political system and among the public, hope for a change in the campus climate seems almost quaint.