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Please join the Civic and Community Engagement Office for the webinar "Applying Deliberative Polling: A Course for Students to Study and Enact Deliberative Democracy," featuring Megha Parwani, Alice Siu, and Luke Terra from Stanford University, on Thursday, April 7, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. This event is presented by Campus Compact as part of its National Webinar Series and is free to members of the Buffalo State College community.

This webinar will discuss how higher education institutions can build virtual and in-person deliberative democracy into student life. It will focus on Applying Deliberative Polling (COMM 138/238), a practicum course for students at Stanford. In this course, students study deliberative democracy and then design and implement their own deliberative poll, an experiment and educational event where participants are surveyed about their opinions on policy after moderated small-group deliberation.

In May 2021, the practicum cohort organized Shaping Our Future, a national deliberative poll that engaged more than 600 young people in a virtual discussion on policy topics spanning electoral reform to national service. This historic virtual experiment not only generated fascinating results among participants but also was a unique hands-on civic engagement opportunity for young people across the country.

Please register online for this final webinar in the National Webinar Series this 2021–2022 season.