SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Shepherd University President Mary J.C. Hendrix recently announced the formation of the Bonnie and Bill Stubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communications.
The purpose of the institute, which will be on the Shepherd campus, is to offer an advanced platform for the study of political communications amid a national political culture of divided ideology and partisan divisiveness.
“We are profoundly grateful to Bonnie and Bill Stubblefield, who made this institute a reality with a generous three-year gift,” Hendrix said in a news release. “How we, as citizens, persuade, advocate and converse with one another across competing opinions is of utmost importance to the future health of our democracy.
Source: The Herald-Mail
