I have been Director of the New England Center for Civic Life at Franklin Pierce since 2003. One of the Center's major projects, The Deliberative Democracy Initiative, integrates deliberative theory and practices into a number of general education and major courses and convenes campus-based forums on diversity issues. Another component of this initiative is our Civic Scholar Program. These students learn how to moderate deliberative forums and assist with other Center activities. “Individual and Community: Deliberation and Diversity in a First-Year Seminar,” an essay that describes these initiatives, is included in Deliberation and the Work of Higher Education, a book-length collection of articles published by the Kettering Foundation. A case study about the project has been included in Civic Engagement in the First Year of College, a monograph published by The National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and The New York Times. I am also the editor of College Issues Forums, a series of discussion guides on topics particularly relevant to college students. These guides are developed in collaboration with faculty and students at Franklin Pierce. PDFs of two of these guides, "God and the Commons: Does Religion Matter?" and "Slavery or Freedom Forever: What’s at Stake in the Kansas Nebraska Act?" are posted on this website along with an issue brief addressing the problem of hurtful graffiti and verbal slurs that was used on campus this spring. The Center is active off campus too, in our local region and across the state. I helped design and co-coordinate Rindge 2020: Mapping Our Future, a three-year college/community collaboration and was instrumental in the creation of the community-based Citizens Seeking Common Ground, which successfully ended a six-year stalemate about how to improve facilities in the Jaffrey-Rindge school district. Over the past year, in collaboration with a group of civically-engaged business leaders, we have been developing the Monadnock Initiative for Business Ethics, a series of seminars that foster a "living code" of ethics through the use of deliberation and engagement.