Posted on September 3, 2024 by
One of UTSA’s newest centers aims to meet a critical need for students. The Center for Dialogue & Deliberation (CDD) is equipping students with the skills and space they need to discuss difficult topics and disagree constructively.
Civil Discourse
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024 — One of UTSA’s newest centers aims to meet a critical need for students. The Center for Dialogue & Deliberation (CDD) is equipping students with the skills and space they need to discuss difficult topics and disagree constructively.
UTSA communication professors Laurie Lewis and Sara DeTurk are the co-directors of the center.
The directors believe the center comes at an opportune time, as productive and amicable discourse has become rarer in the public and private spheres. According to the Pew Research Center, the majority of Americans believe “the tone and nature of political debate in the United States has become more negative in recent years — as well as less respectful, less fact-based and less substantive.” According to another poll, “84% of people think Americans are angrier than a generation before, and 42% admitted that they themselves were angrier.”
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