Civil Discourse and Debates in Concourse

Principal Investigator
Dr. Linda Rabieh, Concourse; Prof. Anne McCants, History; Prof. Brad Skow and Prof. Alex Byrne, Linguistics and Philosophy
Fund: Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period: AY2025
Department/Lab/Center: Concourse

The civil discourse project includes summer salary for supervising instructor and six UROPs for "Debate Fellows," undergraduates who will organize a series of debates, open to the MIT community; it also supports piloting these activities in Concourse, especially Braver Angels’ style moderated debates following-up on the civil discourse speaker series events.