Office of thePresident

Meeting the Moment: Community in Dialogue is a new initiative launching in fall 2024 that expands the College’s ongoing commitment to amplify the collective knowledge, tools, and resources of our faculty, staff, students, and the broader community. The College-wide Initiative promotes new and renewed ways of critically thinking about and engaging with one another on issues that impact the College community, and the smaller communities therein, both individually and collectively, through dialogues, education, and responsive engagement.

Meeting the Moment aims to centralize and highlight ongoing efforts, programs, and resources within our communities, and encourages ethical engagement and responsive dialogue on complex local and global issues. We invite our community to learn together by encounters with a range of perspectives, experiences, and narratives, and meet each of us where we are.

This Initiative features a series of planned programs, including facilitated discussions on collective grief and resilience; workshops addressing antisemitism, Islamophobia, and bias; civic action and engagement; and a plenary session featuring acclaimed Campus Read author James McBride with a discussion about complex relationships in shared community. Events under Meeting the Moment also include programs that began in 2023-24 (e.g., “Dinner with 12 Strangers”) and others that launched in earlier years (e.g., Community Vigils) as well as new dialogic opportunities listed below.

All programs are open to the Haverford campus community (students, staff, and faculty) only unless otherwise noted.

• Event Registration
• Subscribe to our Google Calendar
• hc-meetingthemoment [at] haverford.edu (Questions? Email us )

Community Dialogues

Dinner with 12 Strangers

Community Proposals