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Resources
Cooperative Institutional
Research Program, The
American Freshman: National
Norms Fall 2015 (2016): www.
heri.ucla.edu/monographs/
TheAmericanFreshman2015.pdf.
Intergroup Dialogue: www.
intergroupresources.com/
intergroup-dialogues/.

Southern Poverty Law Center,
The Trump Effect: The Impact
of the Presidential Campaign on
Our Nation's Schools (2016):
www.splcenter.org/20160413/
trump-effect-impact-presidentialcampaign-our-nationsschools#students.
Sustained Dialogue Campus
Network: www.sustaineddialogue.
org/our-work/campus/.

in university housing and residence
life at Auburn University in Alabama,
has been working with their Sustained
Dialogue (SD) program for a year
and found the support of the national
network to be beneficial. "With our
program in its second year, we faced
student leadership transition issues not
unlike other SD chapters. The support
of SD advisors from around the U.S.
strengthened my ability to manage
the transition and enabled me to stay
in touch with SD campuses' response
to the changing political climate
throughout the year."
As collegiate student political
engagement and activism continue
to grow, housing professionals can
expect some students living on
campus to become politically active
as well. The authors of The American

Kathy Obear, Turn the Tide: Rise
Above Toxic, Difficult Situations
in the Workplace (2016).

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