Conversations for the common good is an interdisciplinary, university and community-wide movement linking Bloomsburg University students, staff, faculty, and administrators, plus community partners and the general public in a single goal: to invest time, talent, and resources to promote dialogue that unites, and bridges seemingly vast divides, within the community it serves.
Inspired by the VIA/BU collaboration American Creed in February 2018, and underwritten with the generous support of the Office of the President of Bloomsburg University, this movement hopes to generate informed, civilized discourse about meaningful questions related to civic life in a twenty-first-century democracy.
These questions may make us uncomfortable but are essential to explore. In Conversations for the common good, we explore such questions in interactive community events that are free and open to the public.
The 9/11 attacks: actions and reactions
In partnership with The Exchange, Bloomsburg
Cerick Austin, Assistant Director of Admissions
Elizabeth Dowd, Actor/Director/Producer, The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble
David Heineman, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Oren Helbok, Executive Director, The Exchange
William V. Hudon, Professor of History
Lydia Kegler, Director, Bloomsburg Public Library
Elizabeth L. Miller, Graduate student; 2019-2020 Exhibitions specialist 9/11 Memorial and Museum
Chris Norton, Senior Vice-President, VIA Public Media
Madelyn Rodriguez, Director, Multicultural Center
Shavonne Shorter, Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Lisa M. Stallbaumer-Beishline, Professor of History
Albra Wheeler, Director, Women’s Resource Center
William V. Hudon
Department of History
400 E. Second St.
Bloomsburg, PA 17815
570-389-4159
whudon@bloomu.edu