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Dialogue Across Differences

This program aims to promote and model AU’s key values of respectful inquiry, critical thinking, active listening, and principled changemaking through a series of campus events, programs, and learning opportunities. The goal is to create and elevate a framework that engages the full AU community in intentional work to build the skills necessary to realize our vision of creating an inclusive AU community where ideas are exchanged freely and respectfully. By leveraging campus expertise and existing resources, this program has three core pillars:  

  1. Building the Foundation through relationship-building

  2. Building our Voices by enhancing our dialogue skills and

  3. Building our community, by modeling dialogue across difference. 

Event Calendar

Dialogue Across Differences Events

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Civic Dialogue Faculty Fellows

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AU Unity Walk 2024

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Dialogue for Democracy

In today’s political landscape, the gulf between Democrats and Republicans has never felt wider.  

Americans hold deeply negative views of those across the aisle, with more than 8 in 10 expressing the belief that “Republicans and Democrats are more focused on fighting each other than on solving problems,” according to the Pew Research Center.

But on July 22, during an event sponsored by the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics, young leaders from both parties cut through that noise and engaged with each other about what unites—not divides—Generation Z.

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Objective

  1. Students will understand free expression and its relationship to justice, higher education, and their empowerment, responsibilities, and goals; 

  2. The AU community will have a greater sense of our shared purpose and community values; 

  3. Students will be able to engage with each other more effectively and generously; 

  4. Potential applicants will be aware of AU’s expectations and values of respectfulness, expressive freedom, and robust and truthful inquiry; 

  5. Students will arrive at AU more prepared for life in a diverse and inclusive community, including dialogue across difference.