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….
Tag: civility
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…
The Need for Civic Engagement Education
By John Elliot Harpham Denison’s mission statement puts the ability to morally discern, to autonomously think, and to participate in democratic society above all else as the goals of the college. These are honorable goals, and they paint a wonderful picture of what liberal arts values are all about. Yet, as I look around at…
‘We’re Going to Impeach the MF’er’: Incivility in the Pursuit of Justice
By Paul A. Djupe “Do you think we can get it back?” This is a question that political scientists continually ask each other these days. Once a country starts to slide from a stable, robust democracy, the usual safeguards of norms governing behavior and the referees have already been sidelined. One of the principal dangers,…
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