President Donald Trump's address to Congress on March 4 was one of many examples of how political leaders of both parties no longer model civil discourse. The acrimony on both sides made clear just ...

What he does, in theory, is simple: Timothy Shaffer, a national leader in his field and UD’s inaugural Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Chair of Civil Discourse and director of the SNF Ithaca ...

Elementary school students in Delaware will now have improved mental health services thanks to bipartisan collaboration that took place in drafting and passing into law House Bill 100, which creates ...

Recently, the University of Delaware Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration honored Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) with the Biden School Civility in ...

Amid concerns about academic freedom and rising political polarization on college campuses across the country, leaders at Duke and other universities have adopted new rhetoric to prioritize ...

Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, protests and disruptions have proliferated on college campuses. Institutional statements have flopped. Speakers have come under fire. Events have been ...

The House of Representatives passed a resolution this month honoring Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and close Trump ally who was shot to death Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University. The ...

MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- A look at the past may help ordinary people improve civility, according to Kansas State University's Timothy J. Shaffer, co-editor/author of the book, "A Crisis of Civility?: ...

JANESVILLE — The Rock County Board on Thursday night approved a resolution that condemns political violence and intimidation and called on elected officials to refrain from making “inflammatory ...

In a world marked by nearly ubiquitous technology use, rapid information flows, and shifting norms of communication, cultivating civil discourse in schools has never been more important. Civil ...

Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. This week, the group Speak Up for Justice held another remote event for lawyers about the rule of law, where former ...