Civility is not just a cultural value. It is a leadership skill, a workforce competency and a community imperative.
Colleges and universities have become frequent targets in today’s culture wars, scrutinized for how they handle speech, protest and identity issues. Most of that attention has focused on the Ivies and large universities, but community colleges are not far removed. The same polarization that affects higher education nationally also reaches our classrooms, cafeterias and communities.
State and federal debates over classroom content and diversity, equity and inclusion have intensified public pressure on institutions. National discourse has grown less thoughtful and more adversarial. That leaves our students and communities with fewer examples of how to disagree productively.
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