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Project Dialogue

Vanderbilt University - TN, Tennessee

Project Dialogue is a variety of programs designed to encourage public moral discourse in the context of academic excellence. It includes four main objectives:

    -encourage students to reflect on their opinions and their role as citizens at Vanderbilt
    -to give students the opportunity to consider others’ views in a safe environment
    -to instill in students a broader understanding of the connections between knowing and doing and between truth and goodness
    -to empower students to be leaders and to reflect civic virtues

Website: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/dialogue/

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Independent evidence suggest[s] that attending an institution that is a member of Campus Compact increases the student's odds of participating in community service during college."

-The Review of Higher Education, Winter 2002 (p. 157)