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Work with us to foster inclusion, cooperation, and pluralism on your campus.
Across higher education, campus leaders are grappling with complex issues of identity, polarization, conflict, and cooperation. Overlooking those issues won’t make them go away — we collaborate to help your institution plan for high-impact pluralism and bridgebuilding training for campus leaders. Our consulting engages with campuses to develop a strategic plan for engaging pluralism. Whether it’s capacity building with student leaders and campus professionals, or workshops with senior leaders, get in touch with us to tailor our programs to your needs.
Interfaith America works with campuses to cater offerings to each institution’s unique needs. See our sample offerings below:
Interfaith America engages in long-term consulting partnerships with campuses, focused on developing a campus-wide strategic plan for engaging civic and/or religious pluralism. These partnerships typically involve both in-person work with a broad group of stakeholders and ongoing virtual work with a working group of senior administrators.
Introductory Session, 1-1.5 hours
In this introductory session, attendees explore what it takes to foster a campus culture grounded in pluralism – where diverse identities are respected, community members are inspired by what others hold dear, and people regularly activate shared values to work together for the common good. Participants consider contemporary external forces that call for pluralistic approaches and explore practical examples of what works. This session will either foreground religious pluralism or civic pluralism more broadly, depending on campus context and need.
Suggested audience: faculty, staff, and administrators
Special Topics, 1.5 hours
Designed for campus stakeholders already inspired to build pluralism or interfaith cooperation and looking for practical next steps, this session provides attendees with the opportunity to examine promising practices, explore examples of the practices in action, and consider which practices to prioritize.
Suggested audience: faculty, staff, and administrators who will help lead pluralism efforts on campus
Special Topics, 3.5 hourS
How do college and university professionals attend responsibly to harmful prejudicial behaviors while promoting dialogue, learning, and healing? This 2-part workshop (3.5 hours total) helps senior administrators think through the complex realities of antisemitism and Islamophobia in their campus communities and beyond. The first workshop offers foundational knowledge of antisemitism and Islamophobia, including definitions, histories, and interconnections. The second workshop offers a case study on religious prejudice (and other related biases) in a campus context that helps participants consider what a holistic response might look like in their own institutional context. While this training focuses specifically on countering antisemitism and Islamophobia, there will also be robust discussion of how to envision such interventions as part of a larger vision of civic pluralism.
Suggested audience: senior administrators
Special Topics, 1.5 hours
Effective initiatives to build a culture of pluralism leverage the strength of existing campus work. In this session, attendees consider how pluralism approaches (including the engagement of religious difference) complement other models and explore strategies for cultivating pluralism in partnership with other campus stakeholders.
Suggested audience: senior administrators and campus leaders
time varies
Bridging the Gap teaches students and campus professionals how to truly listen, understand, be heard, and seek common ground to positively impact their communities without compromising deeply held values. Participants learn why bridgebuilding is important and core bridgebuilding skills including connecting this work to their religious or secular worldviews; deep listening; navigating tension constructively; and finding ways to cooperate despite deeply held differences. Participants leave the training equipped to be bridgebuilders in their community and beyond.
Suggested audience: students, faculty, and staff
time varies
Bridging the Gap’s Train-the-Trainer workshop equips campus leaders as trainers of the Bridging the Gap curriculum, allowing them to sustainably train others on their campus with core bridgebuilding skills.
Suggested audience: student leaders, faculty, and staff
Looking for a campus speaker rather than a tailored capacity building session? We have a network of speakers who are experts on religious and worldview diversity, inclusion, conflict, and cooperation. You can hear from Interfaith America’s Founder and President Eboo Patel, experts on our senior leadership team, or Emerging Leaders who have completed intensive interfaith leadership training.
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Work with us to foster inclusion, cooperation, and pluralism on your campus.
Please contact us to discuss bringing Interfaith America to your campus.
Todd Green
Senior Director of Campus Partnerships
Interfaith America
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