Launching: Denver Dialogues鈥擜 Civil Discourse Initiative
Dear 快活app community members,
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Across the University, faculty, students, and staff are thinking big about how we can all engage more thoughtfully, authentically, and respectfully with one another鈥攁nd with experts and thinkers outside the University of听Denver听campus. This work serves us as a community. It makes us more welcoming and inclusive by opening pathways for voices and ideas from all backgrounds, so that we might learn from experiences and perspectives we don鈥檛 personally share. And it makes our students better able to thrive鈥攏ow, but also once they graduate, as they enter a world not defined by its intellectual, political, and cultural homogeneity, but by its bountiful diversity.
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This is civil discourse at 快活app. It鈥檚 the coming together to discuss. To talk and to listen. To be curious and respectful. It鈥檚 hard work, but we believe鈥攁s so many do鈥攖hat it is essential not only for our community, but for the very future of democracy.
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And so, we are very excited by the newest programming focused on civil discourse at 快活app:听听Launched by the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and Scrivner Institute of Public Policy,听Denver听Dialogues听will bring thought leaders from premier U.S. think tanks to campus to engage in conversation on complex topics impacting the nation and the world.
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This kick-off will be a virtual event featuring the presidents and directors of the Aspen Institute, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Hoover Institution, and New America. They will discuss the importance of civil discourse in democracy and the role think tanks and, importantly, universities play in fostering evidence-based, respectful debate.
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We are thrilled that 快活app will be home to these conversations. And we are excited for the rest of the听Denver听Dialogues听programming this year, as well as other opportunities for the 快活app community to engage in the important work of civil discourse.
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Sincerely,
Jeremy Haefner
Chancellor