Amid ongoing US university campus protests, Columbia leadership rebuked by faculty panel for police crackdown on protesters
New York City, US Reuters Columbia’s embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a university oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest, saying the decision ran “contrary to the norms and traditions” of the Ivy League school. President Nemat Minouche Shafik has faced an outcry from many […]
Essay: The US Supreme Court’s colourblindness
US pastor and academic CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES says it’s a different colourblindness than the one envisioned in Martin Luther King, Jr’s, ‘Dream’ speech….
For many US schools, the Master of Divinity degree is moving online for good
RNS Logan Lawrence had already been accepted to Duke Divinity School when she heard that the school would also be offering a mostly online version of the three-year Master of Divinity program beginning this fall. She immediately called to ask if she could switch her enrollment to the so-called hybrid program that will require only […]
ESSAY: CAMPUS FRIENDSHIPS CAN END A CIVIL WAR BEFORE IT STARTS
In an article first published on Religion News Service, PAUL BRANDEIS RAUSHENBUSH, senior adviser for public affairs and innovation at Interfaith Youth Core, looks at the role cultivating friendships – particularly with those who come from different worldviews – on universities and colleges can play in bringing together a divided America…
ESSAY: CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES EVANGELISING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN EFFORT TO BRING BACK THE ‘NONES’
US academic KATHERINE DUGAN, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at how Catholic missionaries are trying to connect with Millennials of no faith on college campuses…