higher education
How a campus interfaith center fell to Florida’s anti-DEI legislation
By Dennis Holtschneider — February 27, 2024
(RNS) — At the University of North Florida, a ban against polarizing students along religious lines closed a thriving resource.
How college can be a pathway to making Muslims more welcome
By Musbah Shaheen, Matthew J. Mayhew, Christa Winkler, and Alyssa Rockenbach — September 28, 2023
(RNS) — Campuses are places we learn to value others in the basic ways that humanize us.
With overturning of affirmative action, Asian Americans became political pawns. Again.
By Jessica Wai-Fong Wong — July 12, 2023
(RNS) — In the wake of the racial reckoning of 2020, Asian Americans are being used, once again, to undermine Black political demands for change.
These are the schools the Global Methodist Church recommends for hopeful clergy
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 22, 2023
(RNS) — The fledgling Methodist denomination, which broke away from the United Methodist Church last year amid ongoing debate over the role of LGBTQ Christians, has announced a list of recommended educational institutions for candidates seeking ordination as a deacon or elder.
A Calvin professor officiated a same-sex wedding. It likely cost him his job.
By Bob Smietana — April 22, 2022
(RNS) — Calvin’s Professional Status Committee decided not to renew the professor's two-year appointment due to his ongoing conflict with school leaders over the issue of LGBT inclusion.
How Hindu chaplains went from anomaly to necessity
By Kathryn Post — September 24, 2021
(RNS) — In 2008, Princeton University's full-time Hindu chaplain was not just the only one at any place of higher learning at the time; he was the first in the United States ever to fill the role.
Taliban: Women can study in gender-segregated universities
By Kathy Gannon — September 13, 2021
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the Taliban government's new higher education minister said Sunday.
Religious scholars weigh risks, rewards of speaking out
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 26, 2018
DENVER (RNS) — It's become important for scholars to share their knowledge in an era of fake news and religious divisions. It's also become dangerous.
After Canadian court ruling, Christian law school re-evaluates community covenant
By Mark A. Kellner — June 22, 2018
(RNS) — After the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against the accreditation of Trinity Western University's School of Law, school officials are considering making its disputed community covenant barring same-sex relationships optional.
Catholic University of America faculty vote raises stakes in battle with president
By Jack Jenkins — June 1, 2018
(RNS) — Catholic University of America faculty have unofficially voted to declare "no confidence" in the school's president and provost, bringing to a head long simmering disputes between educators and administrators.
Jimmy Carter to give address at Liberty commencement
By Associated Press — May 19, 2018
(AP) — Former President Carter will deliver the keynote address to about 18,000 graduates Saturday at the conservative Christian university in Lynchburg.
More seminary students leave the Master of Divinity behind
By Yonat Shimron — May 11, 2018
(RNS) — The economics of church decline and practicalities of today’s students, many of whom area already working in churches, may be among the reasons for the drop off in the Master of Divinity degree.
Students’ survey highlights censorship of Christian college newspapers
By Jack Jenkins — May 8, 2018
(RNS) — One expert in student journalism said the survey indicates that the control exerted over Christian college newspapers seems more like that at a high school than at other private colleges.
Falwell: By Liberty University’s definition, it’s still the largest Christian university
By Jack Jenkins — April 30, 2018
(RNS) — Liberty University's president questioned whether its rival for largest Christian university meets Liberty's definition of a Christian school, and then suggested — that by different measures — both schools could lay claim to the title.
Liberty University is no longer the largest Christian university
By Jack Jenkins — April 27, 2018
(RNS) — President Jerry Falwell boosted enrollments by courting online students. But other religious schools are also embracing the practice.
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