Students, faculty and staff will see a renewed focus on participatory citizenship, free expression and the purposeful inclusion of disparate viewpoints. Across our Virginia campuses, we are modeling robust debate on difficult topics, teaching the skills of facilitation and active listening, acknowledging hard truths of inequity and injustice — and providing history and context. Together with SCHEV, multiple colleges and universities have engaged with the Constructive Dialogue Institute to bolster the skills of genuine and respectful discussion. Many of our institutions have launched university-wide initiatives: civic engagement programs at James Madison University, William & Mary’s Democracy Initiative, Virginia Tech’s VT Engage, the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, and systemwide conversations at Virginia’s 23 community colleges, to name a few.