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Goal 3.3 Time and Space for Difficult Conversations

How can Schools create opportunities, whetherin the curriculum or co-curriculum, for all on campus to explore issues in the world, hear differing points of view, and reflect on hard questions, in formats that both foster and model free academic expression and mutual respect and concern?

HDS Vital Conversations

The Divinity School introduced a daylongconversation and presentation series duringincoming student orientation titled Vital Conversations, which focused on addressing racism and sexual and gender-based violence, and offered a continued series of community conversations throughout theyear with the same title, but touching on other aspects of diversity and inclusion.There were many events and programsorganized within the community, particularly by the student group HDS Racial Justice and Healing Initiative:

  • A conference on Buddhism and race.
  • A three-part...
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