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Campus Conversations: Modeling a Diverse Democracy through Deliberative Polling

Diversity & Democracy (Vol. 11, No. 1; Winter 2008)
By Robert Cavalier

"Polling for an Educated Citizenry"
By ROBERT CAVALIER and MICHAEL BRIDGES
The Chronicle of Higher Education (Jan. 19, 2007)

"Poll Shows Opposition to Bill of Rights"
The TartanOnline
May 1, 2006
Shawn Wertz writes that "The focus of this poll was the proposed Student Bill of Rights, which would codify the prohibition of professors using their courses as a way of sharing personal political views with their students. The results of the poll suggested that the participants had changed their minds after learning about the issues through Campus Conversations."

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"Polling exercise shows influence on voters' opinions"

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
January 25, 2004


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