The deadly events at Charlottesville in 2017 served as a warning to campus leaders: Colleges can’t hide from societal tensions. They must acknowledge and work to resolve them, while building a campus culture that is both empathetic and alert to perils.
This new, 48-page issue brief from
The Chronicle, Managing Political Tensions, will help leaders understand the roots of rising political polarization, anti-intellectualism, and hate speech, among other trends. And it will provide them with tools to educate their communities and thwart, or at least de-escalate, threats to their campuses.
