What are the possibilities for student-facilitated discussions outside the classroom to bridge campus divides and foster inclusivity on campus? How could we continue to learn from each other about possibilities for such student-centered discussion experiences? At...
Breaking News: The Interactivity Foundation (IF) has published a new discussion guide. Tomorrow's News: the Future of Journalism and Our News Media is now available on the IF website. Like all IF discussion guides, Tomorrow's News is designed to encourage...
What can we do to revive civility in our public and political discourse? The National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD) is aiming for the top. Their Board has issued a Joint Statement calling on our national political leaders to revive civility. It reads in...
Update: We have just learned that a water pipe recently burst at the Georgetown Library and flooded the room in which we had scheduled our discussions. The library is closed as a result, and it is not yet clear when it will reopen. Consequently, we are postponing...
By Brooke Bennett-Day, Associate Professor of Psychology, Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia. For the past four years, faculty at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia have taught a mandatory first-year seminar, the Wesleyan Integrative Seminar Experience (WISe), as...
In August there were two IF discussion series organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first was about The Future of Regulation at the University of Buenos Aires’ Law School. With its 50,000 students, it is the largest law school in the world. The second...
IF Fellow Mark Notturno gave a keynote address at the Bases Foundation’s Sixth International Conference on ‘The Austrian School of Economics in the 21st Century’ in Rosario, Argentina last August. He also gave talks in Chile at the University of Valparaiso and in...
IF Fellow Adolf Gundersen published a piece in the July 2016 edition of PS, a journal about the discipline and teaching of political science. Entitled “Neither Star nor Gypsy: How I Found Happiness Outside of Academia,” the piece (which can be found here...
Beginning late last spring, the Interactivity Foundation has been working with a few public libraries in Wisconsin to develop a pilot program to initiate and support community-based discussions. Under this pilot program, we have now facilitated four separate...
IF is reaching out beyond the English-speaking world to promote thoughtful public policy discussions—especially since many of our projects address areas of global concern that should be discussed beyond our borders. Several of our reports have been translated into...
