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About the Project
The Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogues Initiative
The Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogues Initiative was created in 2005 as a response to reports of growing intolerance and efforts to curb academic freedom at colleges and universities in the wake of 9/11. Over 675 colleges and universities applied for funding to support programs addressing diversity and academic freedom on college and university campuses. Emory University was one of twenty-seven institutions awarded a grant of $100,000, to be used in support of the Transforming Community Project for a two-year period (2006 to 2008). In 2008, sixteen of the original twenty-seven were invited to apply for a renewal grant of $100,000; Emory again received valuable support, which will end in August 2010.
The Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogues Initiative has directly supported the Transforming Community Project Summer Faculty Pedagogy Seminar, 2006-2010; our first Community Research Fellows (Melissa Sexton and Andy Urban); and the assessment of our first five years by EMSTAR Research, Inc., an Atlanta-based consulting firm. In addition, we have been in conversation with other grantee institutions across the United States who also engage in this work. For a description of these projects and more information about the Difficult Dialogues Initiative, see http://www.difficultdialogues.org.
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