Colleges can help students cultivate civic respect — a value more easily affirmed than granted in our polarized climate, Jeff Spinner-Halev and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse write in this op-ed for Inside Higher Ed.
“Civic respect is at once more meaningful and easier to grant than personal esteem, and it offers a way out of the moralizing, paralyzing conflicts that are warping our academic mission and the nation’s political climate,” the authors write. Spinner-Halev is Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics in the department of political science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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