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Higher Education

Institute on Teaching and Learning for Campus-wide Interfaith Excellence

A partnership between the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Interfaith America (IA)

Institute on Interfaith Excellence 2022
Transforming Campus

Transforming Campus

The Institute on Teaching and Learning for Campus-wide Interfaith Excellence (IIE) is designed to prepare college and university leaders to transform their campuses into environments for interfaith cooperation. Intended for administrators, faculty, and staff at both public and private colleges and universities, campuses are invited to bring teams of five people from a diverse set of campus positions to the Institute. Teams must include at least one senior academic officer and one faculty member, ensuring broad-based educational reform on campus.

The American Association Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) are grateful for the generous support of The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and Lilly Endowment Inc. to make interfaith cooperation an institutional priority throughout the United States. If accepted, all costs will be covered for the 2022 Institute. In addition, campuses will be eligible for a $3,000 grant to implement their action plan back on campus. In 2023 attending the Institute will be a shared cost between IFYC and the institution.

Over the course of four days, teams will attend sessions, consult with faculty advisors, and meet to develop context-specific action plans for broadening, deepening, and strengthening interfaith teaching and learning on their campus. The Institute will provide practical guidance, mentoring, and resources related to the following themes: Religious Diversity and Interfaith Studies in the Curriculum; Religious Identity and Campus Diversity Priorities; Interfaith Competence and Literacy Among Faculty and Staff; Cross-Curricular and Campus-wide Strategic Planning for Interfaith Cooperation

Program

Support

The American Association Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) are grateful for the generous support of The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and Lilly Endowment Inc. to make interfaith cooperation an institutional priority throughout the United States. If accepted, all costs will be covered for the 2022 Institute. In addition, campuses will be eligible for a $3,000 grant to implement their action plan back on campus. In 2023 attending the Institute will be a shared cost between IFYC and the institution.

The Institute

Over the course of four days, teams will attend sessions, consult with faculty advisors, and meet to develop context-specific action plans for broadening, deepening, and strengthening interfaith teaching and learning on their campus. The Institute will provide practical guidance, mentoring, and resources related to the following themes: Religious Diversity and Interfaith Studies in the Curriculum; Religious Identity and Campus Diversity Priorities; Interfaith Competence and Literacy Among Faculty and Staff; Cross-Curricular and Campus-wide Strategic Planning for Interfaith Cooperation

IFYC has invited renowned faculty partners to facilitate the Institute:

  • Royal Baxter

    Director and Interim Executive Director at Clayton State University

  • Janett Cordoves

    Director of Higher Education Partnerships

  • Liora Gubkin

    Associate Dean and Director at California State University Bakersfield

  • David Keck

    Chaplain of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  • Ashmeet Kaur Oberoi

    Assistant Professor and Director at University of Miami

  • Frances Sweeney

    Professor and the Vice President for Mission at Saint Mary’s College of California

  • Dawn Michele Whitehead

    Vice President at the Association of American College and Universities (AAC&U)

Read our publication

Interfaith Cooperation for Our Times: Educating Citizens for a Diverse Democracy

Focusing on the work of the Interfaith Leadership in Higher Education Initiative, this publication showcases institutional efforts to broaden, deepen, and strengthen commitments to interfaith teaching and learning.

The work initiated by the task force and advanced by the team that participated in the summer institute resulted in stronger bonds across divisions where silos had previously inhibited our ability to collaborate, even on areas of mutual interest.

— Kathleen F. Weaver and John T. Sebastian, Loyola Marymount University

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Grant

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Applications are due May 10, 2022. Notification regarding acceptance will be sent to teams by June 1, 2022.

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Learn more about the 2022 IIE

Janett I. Cordovés, Ed.D

Director of Higher Education Partnerships

Interfaith America

jcordoves@interfaithamerica.org
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