April 6, 2020 What Matters – Responding to Disruptive Forces It was 1665, and London was virtually shut down due to the Great Plague. Cambridge University sent its students home to study alone. One of those students, Isaac Newton, used...
March 8, 2018 IF Fellow Delivers “Republic Lecture” on Art & Citizenship in Georgetown, Guyana IF Fellow Dr. Natalie Hopkinson was invited to deliver the Republic Lecture by the government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on Feb. 22, 2018 on the role of the...
March 5, 2018 Walk Out, or Walk In? By: Marc Erlbaum, founder of the Common Party Originally posted on Medium and re-posted here with the author's permission. In the wake of the Parkland shooting, millions of people around the...
September 28, 2017 Building Merrill Together – Update Residents of Merrill, Wisconsin are continuing to talk with, and listen to, and increasingly work with each other. As described in our prior April blog post about the “Building Merrill...
April 27, 2017 IF Discussions Inspire Community Discussion Program Residents of Merrill, Wisconsin are talking and listening—a lot these days about a wide variety of community and regional concerns. The monthly community discussion program entitled “Building Merrill Together” began...
December 29, 2016 We DID It! Diversity and Inclusion Discussions at Wesleyan College By: Melanie Doherty, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English and Faculty Diversity Liaison, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA With guidance from a pair of campus co-directors and the support of the Interactivity Foundation (IF),...
December 29, 2016 A Few Lessons from “Post-Election” Discussion It is often the case that public interest in IF discussion guidebooks waxes and wanes based on current events and media focus. So it probably should not come as any...
December 31, 2015 Educating Community Facilitators, The K-State Experience As the semester winds down, I am almost ready to reflect on my experience teaching Leadership in Practice at Kansas State University. As a fellow in residence in the Staley...
June 22, 2015 Dennis Boyer’s Book Review : The Ecology of Democracy: Finding Ways to Have a Stronger Hand in Shaping Our Future Dennis Boyer's Book Review : The Ecology of Democracy: Finding Ways to Have a Stronger Hand in Shaping Our Future, Kettering Foundation Press, Dayton, Ohio, 2014 - By David Mathews One sizeable shelf in...
