The Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (IDHE) and Sustained Dialogue Institute are offering a free "help desk" to assist campus educators with challenging conflicts and conversations. This service is particularly relevant as we approach a contentious election season.
"IDHE has teamed up with the Sustained Dialogue Institute to host a free 'help desk' to offer timely advice—troubleshooting—to campus educators and practitioners facing difficult, confounding, new, frightening, nasty, threatening, and other conflicts and challenging conversations. These can come up in the classroom, in administrative decision-making, in cocurricular programming, and even when engaging communities off campus. And with a contentious election providing context for the fall semester, we anticipate a need among educators."
The help desk addresses various issues, including managing provocative students, ensuring inclusive classrooms while maintaining academic standards, and navigating the educator's role in providing neutral learning spaces. A team of nine experienced scholars and practitioners is available to assist with inquiries.
