The most urgent question facing US democracy is whether “we the people” can learn to engage with one another constructively—across deep differences of lived experiences and viewpoints—and collaborate to create solutions for the future. This panel explores the impact on college students when they participate in structured dialogues across political differences. The featured panelists lead campus and national initiatives to make “bridge building,” “deliberative dialogue,” and “engagement with viewpoint diversity” a higher-education priority, in both institutional culture and pedagogical practice.

Hosted and produced by Civic Learning for an Engaged Democracy and sponsored by the Endeavor Foundation