What roles do sports play in our society? What roles do we want them to play? Who should have access to sports opportunities? Why might we think of sports as a matter of public concern? What are different ways to shape our sports policy to meet our public goals for...
What are the key questions or concerns we face with the future of higher education? What are different ways to address those concerns? These sorts of questions were a key part of IF’s 2012 discussion guide on The Future of Higher Education. Facilitated by Tim...
The Interactivity Foundation has been collaborating with the Kettering Foundation and its affiliate organization, the National Issues Forum (NIF), to promote dialogues around police-community relations. IF Fellow Sue Goodney Lea has been working in the...
The National Dialogue Network has given preliminary approval for a $5000 grant to the Interactivity Foundation for the purposes of improving its public discussion tools and integrating them into a national database of public engagement outcomes. Long time NCDD...
Did you know that you can engage with the Interactivity Foundation in almost daily explorations of various questions and concerns about public policy once you connect with us via social media: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? Several IF Fellows regularly share...
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 this February and will continue for a series of...
Last fall, IF co-sponsored and facilitated a successful 2-session discussion program in Merrill, Wisconsin. The discussions, hosted by the T.B. Scott Free Library in Merrill were entitled "Constructing the Future of Greater Merrill," and they were part of IF's...
By Timothy Ruback, Ph.D. I teach Political Science, I started teaching in spring of 2002, and lasted more than a decade in higher education without ever having taught an internet course. More than that, being of a certain age, I never took an online course when I...
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), a team of six student facilitators kicked off...
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 surprise that there has been a spike in website visits, downloads, and social media traffic...
