Strengthening Pluralism through Academic Life: A Faculty Guide
This resource offers practical and proactive recommendations and examples for faculty to bring pluralism to life as they shape the academic life of their campus.
Higher Education
Interfaith America works with educators on campuses across the country to create and teach innovative pluralism curriculum.
Interfaith America works with educators on campuses across the country to create and teach innovative pluralism curriculum.
We offer grants and other funding, resources and curricula, as well as campus consulting and trainings. Our campus granting enables educators to conduct a wide variety of initiatives to improve campus climate, advance interfaith understanding, and counteract bigotry. Our signature annual gathering, the Interfaith Leadership Summit, provides multiple three-day training tracks for hundreds of students, staff, and faculty members to gain frameworks, tools, resources, and skills to facilitate pluralism programming on their campuses. Events such as our Teaching Interfaith Understanding Seminar, held in partnership with the Council for Independent Colleges, equip faculty with theoretical understanding and practical skills to engage religious diversity in their courses.


In partnership with scholars in the field, IA offers the following working definition of Interfaith Studies:
“Interfaith Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the multiple dimensions of how people who orient around religion differently interact with one another, and the implications of these interactions for communities, civil society, and global politics.”
IA seeks to convene and connect scholars interested in this work. Though the field largely began among those studying religion, we work with faculty in a myriad of fields including nursing, business, education, languages, and biology.
Whether you have long been engaged in interfaith work or are just beginning, we hope you will join our network. Read on for resources and opportunities.

Interfaith America offers a suite of courses, curricula, and resources to equip faculty to create and teach innovative pluralism curriculum.
Case study resources from our courses, curricula, and tools library to engage students in real-life challenges.
Throughout American history campuses have incubated social change and shaped the next generation of leaders. On IA Today, we share firsthand accounts and reported pieces of interfaith engagement and bridgebuilding on campuses today.
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Rachel Tingley
Program Manager, Academic Initiatives
Interfaith America