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Interfaith America works with hundreds of colleges across the country to develop courses, programs, and campus-wide plans.
Higher Education
There is a great line about the key role that universities play in a society: If you want a great city, build a great university and wait a hundred years.
Interfaith America has two decades of experience as a partner to hundreds of universities with a range of affiliations including public, nonsectarian, and religious. We aim to make the vibrancy of our religious diversity a vital part of the college experience.
Throughout American history campuses have incubated social change and shaped leaders. Campuses are sites for research and scholarship, community engagement, encountering deep differences, and building habits of civic leadership. That’s why our longstanding programs are rooted in the power and promise of U.S. higher education. When students are shaped into leaders who leave college equipped with the skills and desire to engage in religious differences, our diverse democracy flourishes.
Our programs and resources build the capacity of campus educators, administrators, and students. We offer grants and other funding, learning tools, and curricula, as well as consulting and training for campuses or networks. We organize spaces (in-person and virtual) for relationship building, strategic planning, and leadership development.
A growing group of educators are creating and teaching innovative interfaith curriculum, preparing a new generation of civic leaders to engage across lines of religious difference.
Read about institutional efforts to broaden, deepen, and strengthen commitments to interfaith teaching and learning.
Come to the Summit with the passion to bring people together and leave equipped with the knowledge and skills to make it happen.
The Bridging the Gap program is designed to combat the toxic polarization in our country, give students the skills they need to find common ground across deep divides, solve problems in their communities, thrive in the workplace of the future, and support students in their own character formation journey.
Prepare to transform your campuses into an environment where interfaith cooperation thrives.
Explore how an institution’s religious tradition can equip the president to advance and narrate campus diversity priorities.
IDEALS is a groundbreaking national study of religious diversity in higher education.
Students who attend active IA colleges are more committed to leading interfaith efforts to create positive changes in society.
— IDEALS RESEARCH
Get inspired, equipped, and connected to unlock the potential of America’s religious diversity.
