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  • I started to trust everyone in the class—I felt heard and I felt that people wanted to listen. As a result, I wasn’t afraid to let my past come out and let people learn from what I have been through.

    Undergraduate Student
    Bridgewater College, Virginia
  • As a pharmacy major, I do not receive much training on how to handle difficult or controversial conversations. I think that this training will help me not only in my duties as a resident assistant, but in discussing medications and therapies with future patients when the conversation becomes difficult.

    Undergraduate Student
    Northeastern University, MA
  • Using what we learned from Essential Partners, staff were able to model effective and respectful communication for students. A next step would be for us to help students employ some of these methods themselves. The staff not only gained skills in communication but also left feeling supported by each other in the work that we do.

    Katie Shear, Civic Engagement Coordinator
    Southern Vermont College, VT

An Evening of Inspiration, Connection, and Hope

Join us on December 10th to celebrate EP's 35th Anniversary! Our virtual gala will feature Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charles Duhigg in conversation with EP's John Sarrouf, three inspiring Founders Award recipients, the premier of an inspiring new video, and more. Tickets are available with a suggested donation of any amount.

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News: Blaming faculty when protests erupt ignores how we teach

“In a polarized climate where adherence to one side of an issue can seem to demand the complete rejection of opposing views or the people who hold them, complexity can be an unwelcome reality. University classrooms are precisely the places where students encounter and meet such complex challenges.” 

Jill DeTemple, EP Academic Associate and faculty member at Southern Methodist University, highlights the role that college professors play in fostering open-mindedness and critical thinking in their students in the Dallas Morning News.

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