COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- The University of Missouri is helping lead a national effort to promote civil conversations on college campuses where heated debates can sometimes turn ugly.
A rash of politically charged confrontations in recent years led to the $4 million Ford Foundation initiative. It began in 2006 and was expanded this year at a dozen campuses nationwide.
Missouri recently hosted a "difficult dialogues" summer workshop for campus leaders from eight other Big 12 Conference schools as well as Alaska-Anchorage.
Participants spent four days sharing war stories about volatile classroom encounters. They swapped tips on how to promote academic freedom and ways to tolerate offensive speech without allowing hate speech.
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