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Getting to We: Why Dialogue Matters in Higher Education

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In this talk entitled, "Getting to We: Why Dialogue Matters in Higher Education," Patricia Romney, President and founder of the consulting group Romney Associates, explores the importance of dialogue in higher education suggesting that the mission of higher education is to "build the intellectual aptitudes and the experience of engagement with others as well as the affective orientation that fosters the building of a better world, a world in which we can f

Shifting the Margins

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“Let’s face it, nobody is going to give you tenure for having engaged the community in dialogue.  So, why do it?  It’s suicide on a university campus.” 

“Yes, if you work on the margin, you’ll remain on the margin.”

Musings on “Getting to We”

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A highlight for me at the "Inviting Dialogue" conference at Clark University was Patricia Romney's talk entitled, "Getting to We: Why Dialogue Matters in Higher Education," she identified three challenges for our field.

Dialogue: Why Now?

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In this second post in our series from the Clark University conference, Inviting Dialogue: Renewing the Deep Purposes of Higher Education, we're presenting video of the talk given by the Public Conversations Project's Dave Joseph.  Dave addressed the community-wide gathering on the opening night of the conference with a presentation titled, "Dialogue: Why Now?"

Dialogue and Higher Education

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This week on Words That Matter, we will be featuring content from a recent conference put on by Clark University's Difficult Dialogues initiative in which the Public Conversations Project participated.

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