Stanford has deep expertise and commitments across campus to develop the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and practices that generate a vibrant campus community and uphold pluralistic societies and liberal democracies: critical inquiry, constructive dialogue, and engaged citizenship. ePluribus Stanford elevates and amplifies the work of our campus partners and builds connections and collaborations across these endeavors.
Center for Revitalizing American Institutions
The Center for Revitalizing American Institutions generates much-needed research and public attention to the decline of American institutions - especially educational and government institutions - that stems from polarization and distrust.
COLLEGE
COLLEGE (Civic, Liberal, and Global Education), created through the endorsement of the Faculty Senate in 2020, offers the majority of incoming students a nationally-recognized, year-long curriculum, including the Fall course, "Why College?" and Winter course, "Citizenship in the 21st Century."
Deliberative Democracy Lab
Deliberative Democracy Lab provides a world-class deliberative polling platform, offers research on its efficacy, and teaches two practicums each year.
Democracy and Disagreement Course
Democracy and Disagreement, a recently created flagship course co-led by Stanford's Dean of Humanities and Sciences and former Dean of the Law School, models critical inquiry and constructive dialogue and offers student-facilitated discussion groups to practice these skills.
ePluribus SLS workshop
ePluribus SLS workshop, launched in 2020, supports Stanford Law Students develop the skills and confidence to engage with people who have different values and opinions.
Gould Center for Conflict Resolution
Gould Center for Conflict Resolution at the Stanford Law School offers research, programs, and coursework on negotiation and conflict resolution.
Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Partnership
The Intercollegiate Civil Disagreement Program Fellowship (ICDP) at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society is a year-long fellowship to develop students’ skills to facilitate conversations across political difference and create spaces for civil disagreement to flourish on college campuses.
Stanford Civics Initiative
The Stanford Civics Initiative teaches the ideas and practices of democratic citizenship through dedicated curricular pathways, and leads the Alliance for Civics in the Academy national network of faculty committed to the civic purpose of higher education.
Stanford Democracy Hub
The Stanford Democracy Hub elevates our civic purpose by connecting prospective and current students and other campus community members with the leading civics democracy resources and opportunities across the university.
Summer Frosh Civil Dialogues Program
The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society provides new incoming students with the skills necessary for active participation in campus discourse, robust intellectual growth, and engagement in conversations with diverse perspectives.