As toxic polarization intensifies, colleges are struggling to equip students with skills for to engage across differences. Existing dialogue efforts often fail to reach those who don’t already care about discourse—leaving many students unprepared to navigate conflict or ideological difference.
The Viewpoints Project takes a different approach: rather than relying on opt-in programs, we embed curious disagreement directly into the student groups where students already lead and belong.
The Viewpoints Fellowship is a year-long, student-run fellowship empowering campus club leaders with the skills to navigate differences with curiosity and improve their organizations.
The Viewpoints Fellowship focuses on three questions:
Why is it hard to have a curious approach to difference and disagreement?
Why is it worthwhile and important nonetheless?
How can we cultivate such an approach in our student organizations, and on our campus?
The Viewpoints Fellowship builds campus-based cohorts of student leaders from different universities, teaches an interdisciplinary method of approaching difference with curiosity, and empowers its fellows to create and implement programming promoting this approach in their own communities.
*This video predates our name change; the information is accurate
Our 2025-2026 cohort:
Dartmouth College & Elon University
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What Makes Us Unique?
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TVF is designed and led by students, for students, using a peer mentorship and train-the-trainer model to make the material feel relevant and exciting.
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TVF partners with campuses to ensure institutional memory, invites alumni back as mentors for future years, and provides year-long programming and an alumni network to sustain the impact.
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By training organizational leaders and empowering them to run programming that both deploys curious disagreement and achieves club goals, our programming is able to reach different populations without feeling forced.
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Our fellowship is designed to be unique and complementary - we fit seamlessly onto campuses, whether schools have a robust program around dialogue, or are just getting started.