The Joan Mitchell Foundation is one of our partners this year. In case you're wondering, Joan Mitchell was a leading American abstract expressionist painter. The eponymous foundation is based in NYC and it celebrates her legacy in various ways, including...
Thanks to you all for coming—and thanks especially to Gene Policinski and the Newseum Institute for hosting us today. I’m Jeff Prudhomme, a Fellow and vice president of the Interactivity Foundation. On behalf of the Foundation, I’d like to welcome you to our...
How Facilitated Discussions Can Foster Civility and Bridge Differences Proponents and practitioners of dialogue and deliberative methods often suggest using it to engage with, and bridge divides among, family members. Far more rarely, however, do any of us actually...
IF will conduct a two day exploration of the future of free speech at John Seigenthaler Center, Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 23-24, 2018. These small group roundtable discussions will explore questions and concerns that people might...
Responsibilities for the future of higher education? What responsibilities are there for the future of higher education? Who has these responsibilities? To whom might they answer for these responsibilities? We'll explore big questions like these in a mini-series of...
IF fellow, Shannon Wheatley Hartman, is visiting this year at Haverford College as a fellow-in-residence at the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship. She is working with the center on the development of campus and community discussions with a particular focus on...
Readers interested in IF’s initiative to broaden its reach by contributing to an online discussion platform will be happy to learn that the core organization with which it has been working, now named “USATalk” (www.USATalk.org ), is making significant...
What are the possibilities for small group facilitated discussions in the work of the student government? The Student Government Association (SGA) of West Virginia University invited IF Fellows Natalie Hopkinson and Jeff Prudhomme to help them explore these...
Exploring What Makes a Positive Research Experience “Think of a positive learning experience you had in a research class as a teacher or student. Take a moment and jot down what it was and what made it work.” That’s how IF Fellow Jeff Prudhomme started the Faculty...
We were delighted that Professor Philip Benesch brought thirteen of his students from Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA, to the IF-Newseum Institute event about the future of public discussion. The students joined eleven small group round table discussions that...
