By Drew Duffy President Weinberg often tells students: “If somebody says something in a classroom that you find really uncomfortable — maybe even offensive — take them out for coffee.” Is anyone taking this advice? That is the question a group of DPR students and I have been trying to answer since this past fall….
Month: April 2026
A Quiet Campus: Generational Inability or Just a Lack of Opportunity?
By J. Elliot Harpham Over the last couple of months, Dr. Djupe and I, among others, have been working towards creating a new Civic GE competency. Denison, unsurprisingly, is chock full of diverse thought. The problem is that people appear to be unwilling or lacking confidence in their abilities to express themselves. In my experience…
How Essential are Civic Values and Engagements to a Liberal Arts Education?
By Paul A. Djupe What is college for? Is it to teach timeless arguments and methods of inquiry? Is it to respond to current problems and markets? If you can believe it, there have been times in my lifetime when these questions did not seem so pressing. Not so now. It feels like we are…
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