Readying UNC for Another 250 Years of Civic Life

As America has just celebrated its 250th birthday, those social duties have become more fraught. An alarming percentage of young people feel distrustful and disconnected from public life, pessimistic about democracy, and reluctant to share their earnest opinions about important issues. The intensifying partisanship and social-media surveillance of the last couple decades has made it much harder for universities to meet their mission of readying students for citizenship in our constitutional democracy.