Carleton College

• Students Engaging in Essential Dialogue (SEED) Program trains students to lead conversations on inclusion and identity. SEED participants create spaces for meaningful dialogue about diversity and social justice, facilitating conversations that challenge biases and promote empathy and mutual respect.

Colorado State University

• Center for Public Deliberation (CPD) trains students as facilitators through a semester-long course and deliberative techniques. These students then guide forums with local governments, schools, and civic groups making CPD a trusted partner in Colorado for fostering inclusive and productive dialogue.

Columbia University

• Dialogue Across Difference is a Provostial initiative to foster constructive dialogue among students, faculty, and staff. This program aims to strengthen skills necessary for engaging with diverse perspectives and navigating challenging conversations. Components include events and programming, professional development, and seed grant funding.
• Seed Grant Program: Supports collaborative faculty-led projects that are consistent with the goals of the Dialogue Across Difference initiative that provide tools and frameworks to promote constructive dialogue or provide forums that model dialogue across divergent perspectives.

Cornell University

• Center for Dialogue & Pluralism aims to integrate critical dialogue into various education contexts at Cornell. It offers pedagogical frameworks, resources, and educational programs to support teaching, advising, mentoring, and residential life, focusing on human connection and social change.

Dartmouth College

• Dartmouth Dialogues Campus programming focused on facilitating conversations and skills that bridge political and personal divides. Strives to build a culture in which community members engage in respectful discussion across differences and feel comfortable having their views challenged.

Davidson College

• Deliberative Citizenship Initiative (DCI) brings students, faculty, alumni and community members together to deliberate on complex and contentious issues. Each year, 12-15 Fellows are trained in deliberation and lead “D Teams” which are small discussion groups on campus. The initiative also partnered with local libraries, churches, and museums, extending democratic dialogue beyond campus.

Harvard University

• Dialogue Across Differences: Provides a range of programming that includes an open-access online course on civil discourse, faculty workshops, community dialogues, listening sessions, training for constructive disagreement across religious, disciplinary, and professional contexts, and interactive forums featuring notable figures.

John Hopkins University

• Dialogue Innovation Grants: A grant program designed to support faculty in integrating dialogue into their teaching and campus activities. This includes initiatives such as co-teaching courses with diverse perspectives and creating programs that encourage conversations across various backgrounds and viewpoints.

Stanford University

• Deliberative Democracy Lab: Conducts research on democratic deliberation, notably using Deliberative Polling®, where representative samples of citizens are surveyed both before and after structured, small‑group discussions to gauge how informed public opinion evolves.
• ePluribus Stanford: A Provostial Initiative designed to strengthen the values and practices of academic freedom and free speech; curiosity and critical inquiry; open, inclusive, and constructive dialogue; and compassionate and effective civic engagement. Beyond its campus partnerships, it includes campus community seed grants, a student award, a Theories and Practices of Pluralism practicum, and student fellowship.
• Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership Fellowship: A year-long hybrid experience that develops students’ abilities to engage in and lead conversations about difficult, important topics across political differences at their respective universities and beyond. 
• Summer Frosh Civil Dialogues Program: Offers incoming first-years the opportunity to receive near-peer training and mentorship from current Stanford students.

University of Arizona

• National Institute for Civil Discourse builds the nation’s capacity to engage difference more constructively by promoting healthy and civil public dialogue and focusing on conversations across the divide to open doors and find common ground.

University of California Berkeley

• Berkeley Liberty Initiative: Brings leading thinkers whose expertise and scholarship focus on the ideal of freedom in political and economic life, and creates opportunities for students and campus community through collaborative events.
• Center on Civility and Democratic Engagement: Develops student fellows, research projects, and public programs that explore how democratic institutions and community leaders can maintain civility while addressing contentious policy challenges.
• Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences Program: The Bridging Differences Program translates research in psychology, sociology, and neuroscience into practical tools for reducing polarization.

 The University of Chicago

• Chicago Forum on Free Inquiry and Expression: A forum dedicated to promoting free and open discourse within the University community, organizes events that encourage discussions on complex and polarizing issues.

University of Michigan

• Intergroup Dialogue Program (IGR) combines coursework and experiential learning to prepare students to engage in conversations across differences. It supports student-led initiatives such as Summer Youth Dialogues, and is viewed as a model for intergroup dialogue in higher education. 

University of Minnesota

• The Dialogue Institute of Minnesota offers funding to support student-led initiatives aimed at bridging cultural, political, and ideological divides on issues related to immigration, race relations, and political polarization.

University of Pennsylvania

• Structured Civic Dialogues at Penn GSE: Provides forums where community members and experts deliberate on complex education and civic issues using facilitated methods developed out of the Penn Project for Civic Engagement.
• SNF Paideia Program: Integrates civic dialogue, service, wellness, and citizenship into undergraduate education through a wide range of courses and seminars that give students practical skills in framing issues, moderating bias, and engaging across differences. 
• Penn Project for Civic Engagement: Leads community deliberations across Philadelphia and beyond. Projects range from neighborhood visioning forums to citywide discussions on schools, the arts, and policy reform. 
• Living The Hard Promise: A Dialogue Series: Launched by Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, this dialogue series brought students together for empathic, campus-wide conversations on urgent and difficult issues, such as geopolitical conflict and identity. The Conversations for Community Program:  Encourages Penn students, faculty, postdocs, and staff to engage in conversation, free of charge, over breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The program is designed to foster community and collegiality.

University of North Carolina

• Program for Public Discourse: Housed in the College of Arts and Sciences and supports a culture of robust public argument through curricular and extra-curricular engagement.