USD to Host 2nd Annual Conference on Civility

The University of San Diego’s School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES) will host the 2nd Annual Conference on Restoring Civility to Civic Dialogue on Wednesday, February 20, at the University’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ).

USD President Mary E. Lyons, PhD, and Carl Luna, PhD, Professor of Political Science at San Diego Mesa College invite the San Diego community to attend the conference which seeks to explore the ways in which civility can be promoted and restored in public discourse and in future political campaigns.

The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Luna and will include remarks from Reverend George Walker Smith, founder of the Catfish Club of San Diego; Mary Lyons, PhD, president of the University of San Diego; and Constance Carroll, PhD, chancellor of the San Diego Community College District.

Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post will deliver remarks as the conference’s keynote speaker. Panelists include Jeff Light, editor UT-San Diego; Martha Barnette, co-host of Public Radio’s A Way With Words; Marty Block, former California State Senator; Maria Nieto Senour, PhD, psychology professor at San Diego State University and 10News anchor Virginia Cha.

WHO: The University of San Diego
WHAT: 2nd Annual Conference on Restoring Civility to Civic Dialogue
WHERE: The University of San Diego’s Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and
Justice (IPJ)
WHEN: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

For more information visit www.sandiego.edu/restoringrespect or contact Carl Luna at carlluna@sdccd.edu or (619) 507-7246.

Admission is free and open to the public.

A brief media availability with Eugene Robinson will follow his keynote address at approximately 10 a.m.

About the University of San Diego

Strengthened by the Catholic intellectual tradition, we confront humanity’s challenges by fostering peace, working for justice and leading with love. With more than 8,000 students from 75 countries and 44 states, USD is the youngest independent institution on the U.S. News & World Report list of top 100 universities in the United States. USD’s eight academic divisions include the College of Arts and Sciences, the Knauss School of Business, the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, and the Division of Professional and Continuing Education. In 2021, USD was named a “Laudato Si’ University” by the Vatican with a seven-year commitment to address humanity’s urgent challenges by working together to take care of our common home.