This white paper from Heterodox Academy presents what it describes as the first public dataset cataloguing university civics and dialogue centers in the United States, identifying 45 centers at 41 institutions across 25 states. It finds that this landscape has grown rapidly and recently, with half of all identified centers founded in 2021 or later, and that a majority of centers created between 2022 and 2025 originated through state legislation rather than internal university initiative. The report distinguishes two dominant models — public universities tend toward autonomous “civic thought” centers focused on classical liberal and constitutional traditions, while private institutions more often host “civic discourse” centers emphasizing dialogue across difference — and flags open questions about faculty governance and academic freedom where centers are legislatively mandated.