In this episode, Sarika and Anne reflect on their forum titled "Podcasts: A Medium for Civil Discourse in the Communication Classroom," which they presented at the League for Innovation in the Community College 2018. The following educators and administrators also weigh in on why faculty should be teaching contentious issues in the classroom:

Bryan Ryan, Senior Vice President of Effectiveness and Innovation at Wake Technical Community College

Courtney Brazile, Speech Communication Professor at Eastfield College

Christina Sciabarra, Director, Center for Career Connections/Women's Center at Bellevue College 

Marty Richards, Instructor at Madison Area Technical College
  
More information about The League for Innovation can be found here: https://www.league.org/inn2018/

Music for this episode comes from a song titled "Tagirijus - Two Pianos" from Manuel Senfft's album Easy (2018). Easy (2018) by Manuel Senfft is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Manuel Senfft's music can be found here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Manuel_Senfft/

Discourse at the League for Innovation 2018

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