It’s back-to-school season again, and the start of another semester brings new routines, new friendships, and new coursework — all opportunities to start fresh.
Setting goals for your academic, extracurricular, social and spiritual life on campus?
Interfaith America has a wealth of resources for new and returning undergraduate students and campus communities. The following tools, stories, and opportunities will help you build interfaith work into your back-to-school checklist.
Five Students Share What Inspires Them as Bridgebuilders
Read how five current undergraduate students’ own religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions guide their commitment to building interfaith cooperation on campus.
Shared Values Facilitation Guide
Learn about different religious and nonreligious approaches to ethical concerns like service, hospitality, and the environment. It’s a great way to start a dialogue about values and beliefs as a part of a service project, religious group, or interfaith club.
Student Interfaith Groups: Finding the Right Structure
There’s no “one size fits all” for student interfaith groups. Explore which model might work best for your unique campus context.
Interfaith America Email Digests
Subscribe to our bi-weekly email newsletters to connect with Interfaith America staff, discover funding opportunities, and receive uplifting narratives about bridgebuilding right in your inbox.
How to Create a Culture of Encounter: 5 Steps for Planning Interfaith Events
Dive into the crucial steps for planning an interfaith event, as recounted by undergraduate student and interfaith leader Naomi Peters, who helped organize the University of St. Thomas’ 2025 Culture of Encounter Ideas Festival.
Creating an Interfaith Space on Campus
Regardless of whether your campus currently has an interfaith space, this resource offers practical suggestions to make existing spaces more useful for people from a wide variety of religious traditions and examples from campuses around the country. If you have the opportunity to improve interfaith space on campus this year, check out this resource!
How to Plan an Interfaith Meal in 6 Easy Steps
Nothing brings college students together quite like free food! Learn from Emerging Leader Matthew Segil, who has hosted many interfaith meals and offers six practical tips for hosting your own.
BRAID (Bridgebuilders Relating Across Interfaith Differences) Fellowship
Ready to jump right into interfaith work? The BRAID Fellowship offers mentorship, funding, and networking opportunities to undergraduate students eager to lead an interfaith project on their campus.
Traditions’ Knowledge on the Importance of Rest
As you return to campus and your calendar fills up, it’s important to carve out time for self-care. This non-exhaustive resource explores some of the ways that people across traditions replenish themselves physically and spiritually. Use it to learn more about religious approaches to rest and reflect upon your own self care practices.
The Learning and Action Bridge
Eager to explore more resources like these? Visit Interfaith America’s Learning and Action Bridge (the LAB) and take the quiz to discover more bridgebuilding and interfaith engagement opportunities catered specifically to you.
