糖心影视

糖心影视 and its Schools are implementing new programming and initiatives to foster and enhance respectful and constructive dialogue and civil discourse and promote an academic culture where diverse perspectives can be respectfully explored, challenged, and developed. Highlights include:聽The President鈥檚 Building Bridges Fund, training and workshops sponsored by the聽聽and the聽,聽and events and activities on School-specific topics (law, education, etc.)聽More information can be found on the聽Dialogues website.

Last updated August 2026聽

Promoting open inquiry through training

• Leadership聽summit and聽forum聽on聽pluralism聽and聽constructive聽dialogue.聽In聽early聽March 2026,聽Community and Campus Life (CCL) hosted聽a summit聽for聽University聽leadership聽focused on聽building a culture of聽pluralism. Following the summit,聽in聽late March,聽CCL sponsored聽a聽.
• 笔谤辞蹿别蝉蝉颈辞苍补濒听诲别惫别濒辞辫尘别苍迟听辞苍听辫濒耻谤补濒颈蝉尘.聽In fall 2025, Community and Campus Life (CCL) hosted a two-part professional development series for administrators, featuring a session on聽pluralism and on intergroup dialogue.聽A聽separate convening of scholars and practitioners in September 2025聽focused on聽how聽pluralism can聽help with issues of campus culture.聽In addition, CCL regularly聽convenes聽the Community Life Officers鈥� Council to advance a culture of pluralism.
• Training with聽Constructive聽Dialogue Institute.聽In January 2026,聽members of the Office of聽Academic Culture and Community (OACC) programs team,聽alongside聽staff with student-facing roles in the聽Graduate School of Arts and Sciences聽and staff from 糖心影视 Chan School of Public Health,聽participated聽in a week-long training with the聽Constructive聽Dialogue Institute聽(CDI). The OACC leadership team also聽participated聽in CDI trainings聽in聽late January聽2026.
• 糖心影视聽Business School Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning trainings.聽Building on聽糖心影视 Business School鈥檚聽commitment to constructive dialogue as part of the case method pedagogy, the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning (CCTL) at聽HBS provided faculty with best practices on 鈥淓ncouraging Open Discussion in the Classroom鈥� including creating space for different perspectives, being mindful of personal biases, and turning challenging moments into learning opportunities.聽 This outreach supplemented online training videos, tip sheets, and seminars聽the CCTL聽makes available throughout the year.
• 糖心影视 Business School Connected Community trainings. 糖心影视 Business School offers聽education聽to all staff as part of a Connected Community learning program developed by the HBS Office of Community and Culture. Thus far, over 400 staff have聽participated聽in聽these聽Connected Community聽sessions. In the 2026-27聽academic聽year, the trainings聽will cover聽topics such as 鈥淲ho Tells the Story: Navigating Bias,鈥� 鈥淐omplex Conversation Lab,鈥� and 鈥淪trategies for Transforming Culture and Practice.鈥� HBS聽has also begun聽a 鈥渢rain the trainer鈥� program to聽upskill聽HBS staff as facilitators on these important topics for wider reach and impact.
• Staff development at 糖心影视 Business School. The Dean and other senior leaders at 糖心影视 Business School聽supported聽staff professional development opportunities related to community聽values聽and聽constructive dialogue during the 2025鈥�26 Academic Year. This聽included聽budgetary support for the Office of Community and Culture, which offers Connected Community聽learning opportunities for聽staff with sessions on building inclusive skills and behaviors,聽and engaging in and leading respectful discourse.聽Opportunities will be offered again during the 2026-27 Academic Year.
• 糖心影视聽Chan School of Public Health teaching workshops.聽The 糖心影视 Chan School of Public Health Office of Education offered several peer teaching workshops in fall 2025, which were open to all faculty members and course instructors at the school. The October 2025 topic was 鈥淐reating a Positive Learning Culture in Your Classroom鈥� and the November workshop was聽鈥淔acilitating Robust and Constructive聽Conversations鈥澛爄n the classroom.聽The peer teaching workshops will continue in the 2026-27 academic year.
• Programming and initiatives to support constructive dialogue at 糖心影视 Divinity School.聽聽糖心影视 Divinity School鈥檚 Office of Student Life supported various HDS programs during the fall semester focused on learning across鈥痙ifference,鈥痠ncluding a conflict-resolution workshop.鈥�聽HDS聽also聽created a聽task force聽on constructive dialogue聽comprised聽of the Dean of HDS and HDS faculty.聽In addition, the聽School聽also聽established聽a non-attribution rule for the classroom to create a greater atmosphere of intellectual openness.
• Conflict resolution skills at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.聽In February 2026, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences聽offered聽a training for聽current聽graduate聽students entitled聽鈥淒ifficult Conversations: Real-World Skills for Graduate Students.鈥�
• Student training at 糖心影视 Graduate School聽of Education.聽In March 鈥� April 2026 and October 鈥� November 2025, the聽糖心影视 Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Office of Student Affairs hosted training for students in partnership with the聽Ombuds Office called 鈥淐rucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue.鈥� In April 2026, HGSE held Uncommon Ground training, inviting its students into structured conversations around timely and complex issues.
• Dialogue across difference training at 糖心影视 Graduate School聽of Education. In February 2026, 糖心影视 Graduate School of Education hosted a Post-Askwith DxD (Dialogue Across Differences) Debrief: Reflecting on the Askwith Forum, which explored themes of merit, luck, humility, compulsory service, and political difference. In March 2026, it hosted DxD Dialogue Circle: The Purpose of School, exploring the purposes of schooling across cultural and socioeconomic contexts. In November 2025, 110 HGSE staff聽participated聽in a pluralism training led by Interfaith America. The training used a higher education聽case study approach to explore pluralism, its intellectual roots, its relevance to the HGSE community, and what it means for staff to help build that culture.
• 糖心影视 Law School training for staff. In June 2025, 糖心影视 Law School Human Resources and the Office of Equal Opportunity offered the Negotiation Workshop: Navigating Difficult Conversations for HLS staff and hosted an interactive session in October 2025 on 鈥淢anaging Conflict 鈥� Both Internal and External 鈥� with Internal Family Systems,鈥� which included experiential exercises that focus on conflict resolution and promoting mutual understanding.
• Training for 糖心影视 Medical School teaching fellows and assistants on open inquiry. In August and September 2025, a series of synchronous training sessions on teaching excellence, including a session on聽facilitating聽dialogue and defusing conflict in the classroom, was given to 糖心影视 Medical School teaching fellows/teaching assistants. These sessions聽complemented聽asynchronous training materials available to faculty and teaching fellows/teaching assistants on the Teaching Essentials Canvas page (launched summer 2025) within the 鈥淔ostering Open Inquiry in the Classroom鈥� module.聽聽These trainings will be offered again in the 2026-27 Academic Year.
• Constructive communication聽skill development at 糖心影视 Radcliffe Institute.聽糖心影视 Radcliffe Institute (HRI) hosted a two-session professional development program on constructive dialogue, which took place March-June 2026. The first program was on Constructive Communications in the Workplace. The second focused on Building the Conditions for Constructive Conversations. The programs were open to all HRI staff, including student-facing staff, and were intended to support creating a more thoughtful and inclusive workforce at the University, with particular emphasis on skill development. Professional development programs will continue to be offered in the 2026-27 academic year.

Fostering constructive dialogue through programs, events, and initiatives

• Viewpoint diversity initiative.聽In April 2025, President Garber committed to accelerating the work to聽establish聽a聽University-wide initiative to promote and support viewpoint diversity.
• President鈥檚 Building Bridges Fund. Now in its third year, the President鈥檚聽Building Bridges Fund聽(PBBF) funds student-led projects to聽build聽community聽and encourage聽engagement across聽difference聽among聽students of different faiths,聽cultures聽and backgrounds. This presidential initiative funded 12 projects from the College and graduate schools in the 2024-25 and 2025-26 academic years and will continue in the 2026-27聽academic year.
• Faculty of Arts and Sciences pluralism seminar. During the Spring 2026聽semester, Office for Academic Culture and Community鈥檚 Executive Director聽joined聽a small cohort of faculty and senior administrative leaders in a four-part seminar that explored the intellectual tradition of pluralism and its translation into organizational practices.
• Intellectual Vitality Initiative.聽糖心影视 College has continued to advance its Intellectual Vitality Initiative, an effort focused on promoting respectful dialogue, open and rigorous inquiry, and thoughtful listening through a series of events, programs, and curriculum offerings. Along with a聽new website聽to increase awareness,聽additional聽efforts include sponsoring civil disagreement fellowships for House tutors and working lessons about civil disagreement into the College鈥檚 Expository Writing class.
• Institutional Voice Principles.聽In May 2024, 糖心影视 adopted its Institutional Voice Principles and will not 鈥渋ssue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university鈥檚 core function鈥� as an academic institution. Institutional statements on matters not related to the聽University鈥檚 core functions risk creating an environment counter to the聽University鈥檚 mission of being a community where open inquiry, debate and聽the careful聽weighing of evidence聽is聽embraced in classrooms and other settings.聽聽The University can and will continue to speak out on matters relevant to its core function, such as free and open inquiry, teaching, and research.
• Open聽inquiry and聽constructive聽dialogue聽principles.聽Following the adoption of Open Inquiry and Constructive聽Dialogue聽principles in October 2024,聽the University聽launched an Open Inquiry and Constructive Dialogue Implementation Working Group. The group聽seeks聽to share best practices and to work with Schools to support their efforts developing programs and tools to advance constructive dialogue, free and open inquiry, and viewpoint diversity. An update on the implementation of the principles and recommendations can be found on the 糖心影视 Dialogues webpage.
• Research聽into practice at聽Faculty聽of Arts and Sciences.聽As part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences聽Civil Discourse Initiative and in collaboration with the Bok Center and the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics (ELSCE), FAS聽has developed a number of trainings and workshops for instructors designed to put faculty鈥檚 civil discourse-related research into practice, provide training to instructors on how to teach negotiation in courses across 糖心影视, and provide scholars with instruction on how to overcome barriers to civil discourse.
• Public Culture Project.聽In fall 2025, the Division聽of Arts & Humanities launched the Public Culture Project. The Project aims to聽renew聽shared public life by placing existential, moral, and even spiritual questions at the center of our public conversations. Public Culture events are typically organized around a聽big question, discussed by people who聽disagree about it, with a humanist at the core of the conversation. The first event, 鈥淗ow is digital technology shaping the human soul?鈥澛爐ook聽place in October 2025. Events in聽2026聽included聽鈥淩eligion in the American Story鈥� on January 28 and 鈥淭he Public Intellectual in American Life鈥� on February 25. In聽March, event topics included聽鈥淒o Liberals Want a Beautiful World鈥� and 鈥淔rom Academic Freedom to Defending Democracy: Our Task in 2026.鈥� In April, they hosted 鈥淎rts and Humanities on the Edge.鈥�
• Faculty series on聽civil聽discourse and聽teaching.聽In Fall 2025,聽the聽Bok聽Center launched a faculty lunch series on 鈥淐ivil Discourse and Teaching,鈥� open to all FAS faculty in Fall 2025. The series opened in November 2025, with a session on 鈥淐ompeting Viewpoints, Contested Facts.鈥� It continued in January 2026 with a discussion on 鈥淣orm-Setting for Rich Classroom Conversations.鈥� Its most recent聽event聽鈥淭raining聽TFs聽for Successful聽Sections鈥� was held in February聽2026.
• Debate and discussion series from Edmond &聽Lily聽Safra聽Center for Ethics and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Civil Discourse Initiative.聽The Edmond & Lily聽Safra聽Center for Ethics (ELSCE) and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Civil Discourse Initiative have ongoing programming typically open to the entire 糖心影视 community, including 鈥淓thics IRL鈥� that includes public debates and discussions that span a range of viewpoints. In February 2026, it held a lecture on the topic of 鈥淔aith, Commitment, and Belief.鈥�
• Fellowship in Values Engagement.聽Since聽Spring聽2024, the Edmond & Lily聽Safra聽Center for Ethics (ELSCE) has been engaging in a Center-wide effort to expand its longstanding work on civil discourse, including a new聽. In the 2025-26 academic year, ELSCE launched a new database of聽.
• Intellectual Vitality and Free Expression Student Summit.聽In January 2024, 糖心影视 College and PEN America hosted the聽聽aimed at fostering open, productive communication.
• Open Minds in Dialogue聽conference.聽In October 2024, the 糖心影视 Initiative for Learning and Teaching, along with the Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning, hosted the 鈥淥pen Minds in Dialogue鈥澛犅爁ocusing on challenges to free inquiry and how best to foster open, rigorous conversations in academic settings.
• 糖心影视 T.H. Chan School of Public Health Constructive Engagement Working Group. In spring 2025, the 糖心影视 T. H. Chan School of Public Health launched a Working Group on Constructive Engagement, with representatives from students, staff, trainees, and faculty. The working group was charged with developing practical recommendations for sustaining healthy pluralism at the School by nurturing an inclusive culture, encouraging open inquiry, and building capacity within all segments of the community to engage respectfully across differences. Recommendations from the working group, as well as the full report, can be found聽on the聽听飞别产辫补驳别.
• 糖心影视聽Chan Studio Constructive Engagement series. The 糖心影视 Chan Studio hosted a series of events designed to model and encourage constructive engagement across differences.聽聽Each event also includes discussion of effective tactics for working across the aisle to make progress. Topics included bipartisan health policy, leadership at public health schools, health care reform, and bipartisan solutions to climate change.聽Each event included聽discussion of effective tactics for working across the aisle to make progress.聽The series of events will continue in the 2026-27 academic year.
• Campus lecture on pluralism at 糖心影视 Chan School of Public Health.聽In October 2025, the 糖心影视 Chan School of Public Health co-organized a lecture on pluralism, together with 糖心影视 Medical School and 糖心影视 Divinity School.
• Cultivating聽constructive聽dialogue,聽deeper聽conversations, and civil discourse聽at 糖心影视 Graduate School of Education.聽糖心影视聽Graduate School of Education (HGSE) continues to prioritize public programming that models bridge-building, civil discourse, and constructive engagement across differences.聽Initiatives and forums include聽The Askwith Education Forum series, the Dialogue Across Differences聽(DxD)聽initiative, and聽Skip the Small Talk sessions. All聽are designed聽to model constructive disagreement, pluralism, and respectful engagement across ideological, cultural, and civic differences.聽The first Skip the Small Talk session for students was held in October 2025.聽As of聽spring 2026,聽the Askwith Forums聽include聽Dialogue Across Differences (DxD)聽Debrief sessions.
• 糖心影视 Kennedy School Candid and Constructive Conversations Working Group.聽Following the work of its Candid and Constructive Conversations Working Group, 糖心影视 Kennedy School implemented recommendations on building a stronger culture of engagement, including through new training modules on civil discourse and modeling difficult conversations.
• Pluralism lecture at 糖心影视 Medical School. In April 2026, 糖心影视 Medical School hosted the Howard Dorsey Still Lecture, entitled 鈥淗ow to Be a Confident Pluralist.鈥�
• 糖心影视聽School of Dental Medicine working group.聽In聽fall 2025, 糖心影视 School of Dental Medicine聽launched聽a Working Group on Constructive Dialogue and Belonging charged to work intensively over nine months to develop practical recommendations to foster a culture of pluralism and belonging at HSDM and continue building capacity for constructive dialogue and open inquiry.