Goal 3.2 Skills for Difficult Conversations

How do we equip everyone on campus — faculty and academic personnel, staff, andstudents — with skills to engage across difference, support freewheeling debate, navigate difficult conversations productively, and make space for minority viewpoints (whether of religious students, conservative students, or students from underrepresented identitygroups or backgrounds)?

HLS Faculty Teaching Workshops

Each summer two or three of the faculty workshops focus on teaching, includingtopics such as gender and race in the classroom; experiential learning; and learning outcomes and assessments. These are workshops in which faculty share bestpractices for creating environments that foster inclusion and belonging in teachingand learning.

Takeaway

This practice provides an example ofhow to schedule formal time and spacefor faculty members to share how theycreate and foster inclusion and belonging through teaching and learning. Thebroader practice of sharing knowledge...

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