ANNOUNCEMENT: 

CULTURE SHIFT FELLOWSHIP

make a BIG impact with your skills for engaging with others.

ADVISORS, TRAINED FACILITATORS, & STUDENTS! Are you interested in a CULTURE SHIFT?:

• Completed SD training and feel confident in how to implement
• Understand complex intergroup relationships in your locale?
• Understand that the campus is a set of systems to think about holistically and institutionally
• Have capacity, energy, interest, and willingness to use facilitation skills
• Are considered a trusted person (maybe for many groups and roles)
• Are willing to influence others without judgment
• Willing to try to collaborate (regardless of history and feelings)
• Have ideas that create possibility and still have hope for humanity
• Are able to get creative in order to get unstuck from past issues and false binaries
• Are willing to model skills related to coalition building and dialogue
• Want to work with us to propose an ongoing plan for cultural change

What Campus Culture Shift Fellows commit to:

• Design at least one local skillbuilding series, course, podcast, or event with an audience of your choice by December 2025
• Receive support, coaching, materials, and chances to network with a select group of other skilled facilitators
• Be profiled nationally!
• Get in touch with [email protected] if you’re interested in getting recognized for the work you already do!

VIDEO RESOURCE

From UCDavis’ Dialogues Across Difference: Solutions to Disruptive Speech in the Learning Environment

Looking for a video that you can show students to help them understand the expectations for campus and classroom discussion? Check out this law professor’s helpful explanation for how to navigatee the difference between dehumanizing conversation inside and outside of the classroom. We recommend showing portions of this video as students head back to class. Brian Soucek (UCDavis) 

We thank the UCDavis faculty and educators working to create clear syllabus and content explanations for the benefit of other institutions.

RESOURCE: SD Election Dialogue Guide

This written resource serves as a pre- or post-election dialogue guide (as we’ll be updating the document as the national 2024 election is decided). Access this short guide here.

Need other tools? Reach out at [email protected] and find out what else is available.

…Ask the Helpdesk: Coming in September

As campuses head back to campus, we’re thrilled to announce that beginning in September 2024, in partnership with the AAC&U’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education, the Sustained Dialogue Institute’s Campus Network will provide an on-demand “helpdesk” for educators dealing with tricky campus moments related to democratic conversations. We’ve gathered a team of consulting scholar-practitioners, all with years of leading and navigating difficult conversations without sacrificing pedagogical goals nor academic freedom. We look forward to reading your questions at launch !

Until then…