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With classes resuming at campuses across the country, some faith leaders who work closely with college students offer insights into what outside observers might be missing about Generation Z.
A professor’s personal experience and research inspired a course on sustainable end-of-life choices. What happened that semester surprised everyone in the classroom.
Link to author Mallory McDuff
A graduate of Birmingham-Southern College reflects on the sudden closing of the school, and why it matters to the thousands of students who went there over the years.
Link to author Anne Mitchell Whisnant
Legislation limiting what can be taught in public schools fueled a Florida nonprofit’s decision to develop a Black history toolkit for faith communities.
The former curator of religion at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture discusses his work there and his hopes for his new role as director of the Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity School.
A series of recent decisions will have far-reaching ramifications headed into a new academic year, writes an associate director of Vanderbilt University’s Initiative for Race Research and Justice.
Link to author Ira Murray
Listening — really listening — is the first step for participants in a program to build relationships between people on university campuses and the congregations near them, writes the program director of The Vinery.
Link to author Alexis Carter Thomas
An interfaith space at Virginia Commonwealth University uses asset-based community development to focus on the strengths and interests of the students who walk through its doors rather than telling them what they need.
Link to author Edie Gross
Too often, interim leaders are expected to tread water while an institution searches for a replacement. That’s an important opportunity lost, both for the person and for the organization, says the author of a book on interim leadership in higher education.
In a student ministry at the University of Mary Washington, two pastors have overseen the birth of several house churches by relying on the power of creativity and connection.
Link to author Edie Gross
When the students at the Baptist Student Ministry in the Rio Grande Valley opened a deli near campus, they knew it was innovative. What they didn’t know was that their restaurant would become a vital source of meals for people in need.
Link to author Elizabeth Le’anani Coffee
