How students at Colorado State helped teach their community to stop talking past each other and manage complex problems

The Conversation (US) reports that for two decades, Colorado State University students have facilitated more than five hundred community discussions in and around Fort Collins, Colorado, on issues like whether to allow marijuana dispensaries. Instead of the usual two-minute public comment slots, participants weigh multiple viewpoints and work toward solutions that balance competing concerns. The program, run through the university's Center for Public Deliberation, is now part of a federal grant to expand the model to forty campuses nationwide.

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