The TCU mission statement calls for it. Professors teach about it. And in the spring, TCU students organized a semester-long dialogue to chat about it. Ultimately, the discussion culminated in the first-ever TEDx talk at TCU. (The non-profit organization TED — Technology, Entertainment and Design — is renowned globally for its “ideas worth spreading” credo.) While about 100 students, faculty and staff members crowded into the Moudy North Auditorium in April for the hour-long event, what will last longer is a series of short essays students and a few faculty penned. Here’s a sampling.

Vanessa Bouché — Emporing citizen-consumers to end commercial sexual exploitation 
Patrick Browning — The human formula
Kyle Cochran ’13 — Tolerant time travel
Megan Davidson — Quilting the balance: Integrating all the pieces into the whole
Miles Davidson ’13 — Conscious decisions are at the heart of responsible citizenship
Jonathan L. Davis — Harmony amongst adults
Chuck Dunning — A vow for speaking with civility
Amberle Durano — More than a good deed
Pearce Edwards ’13 — Why I’m more than American
Jack Enright ’13 — Do it
Will Hardy ’13 — When you wish upon a star
Barrington Hwang — The greater good
Molly Johnson ’13 — Everyone has a story
Corey Landers ’13 — Branding world change
Kara Lane ’13 — Active citizenship
Jared Lax — Social responsible and selfish
Alex Lipari — Action toward enhancement
Jordan Mazurek ’12  — Here’s to radicals
Luke Miller ’13 — One-dimensional origami
Ron Pitcock — Unobserved citizenship
Joshua Simpson ’13 — Awareness. Empathy. Action.
Hannah Jane Stadinger — Being responsible in business
Cassie Torrecillas — Love in action
Amy Tuttle — Hitting a moving target: The negotiation of responsible citizenship