Professor of Government Eric Beerbohm asked a packed Sanders Theatre audience of first-years to debate a provocative question: How do we value our friends who disagree with us? The question stemmed from a dining hall conversation he had with a student in Quincy House, where he serves as faculty dean, about how to maintain a…
U.S. colleges and universities have for the most part done a good job protecting and promoting campus discourse in recent years, according to Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber. They have not, however, escaped the divisions affecting institutions and communities across the country. Read more in The Harvard Gazette…
Higher education may be an important source of economic and social mobility, but it doesn’t do nearly enough to meaningfully reduce inequality in the U.S., according to political philosopher Michael Sandel. Read more in The Harvard Gazette…
Social media exerts a powerful influence on college campuses. Has the technology helped broker new connections across ideological difference? Or has it simply siphoned students into conversations with those who share their views? Read more in The Harvard Gazette…
I’ve had a lot of conversations with my peers at dinner and in class about religion. I grew up very Christian, but when I came to Harvard, I started questioning a lot of the beliefs I grew up with: Maybe what I believed to be true wasn’t exactly what I thought it was. Read more…
As part of a commitment to open discourse on campus and off, Harvard will hold a series of events designed to model productive dialogue. “Harvard Dialogues,” which launched Thursday, is part of a broader initiative to address how the campus community can communicate more openly and constructively within classrooms and in the broader world. Read…
