In 2022, a diverse group of Stanford faculty published a “Statement on Open and Inclusive Discourse at Stanford,” which began: Stanford University, along with many of its peer institutions, faces ...

After a year of committees, action plans, and panels, Harvard’s commitment to their “intellectual vitality” initiative is clear. Yet their most substantive reform for addressing problems with our ...

Universities were once celebrated as places where ideas could be challenged, debated, and refined. Classrooms were meant to be arenas for civil discourse—spaces where disagreement was not only ...

Dialogic approaches in classroom discourse foreground the reciprocal exchange of ideas between teachers and students, drawing on sociocultural theories that regard language as both a tool for thought ...

Colleges and universities often encourage students to engage in healthy debate and expression on campus, but students report censoring their own ideas out of fear of hurting others. A September 2023 ...

First-time teachers and first-time voters gearing up for the 2024 election may have only ever been exposed to toxic polarization — it’s their norm. But for those of us who’ve been in the classroom for ...

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Lindsey Galvao, a ...

First-time teachers and first-time voters gearing up for the 2024 election may have only ever been exposed to toxic polarization — it’s their norm. But for those of us who’ve been in the classroom for ...

First-time teachers and first-time voters gearing up for the 2024 election may have only ever been exposed to toxic polarization — it's their norm. But for those of us who've been in the classroom for ...