<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/newsroom/ubalt-stories-civil-discourse-and-debate.cfm" dsn="blogs"><featured>true</featured><pubDate>04/16/2025</pubDate><title>Debate courses, events elevate student voices</title><description>Professor Jennifer Keohane brought her love of debate to UBalt and has found new ways--with student support--to bring civil discourse to forefront. </description><author>UBalt Stories</author><image><img src="https://www.ubalt.edu/about/newsroom/assets/images/debate-club-takamira-feature.jpg" alt="Takamira Williams snaps to support a strong argument during a campus debate."/></image><image-cap>Takamira Williams snaps to support a strong argument during a campus debate.</image-cap><quote>It isn't so much about ‘seeing both sides’ of an issue as it is about humanizing them.</quote><quote-name/><quote-info/><tags><tag>Student Life</tag><tag>Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences</tag></tags></item>