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‘We’re going beyond identity’: Shiite students head to Harvard for first national conference
By Aysha Khan — February 28, 2020
CAMBRIDGE (RNS) — More than 270 Shiite undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni are gathering at Harvard this weekend to discuss spirituality, sectarianism, activism and more at the sold-out Ma’rifa Conference.
Students lobby Congress on DACA and global warming
By Thomas Reese — November 19, 2019
(RNS) — More than 1,500 students descended on Washington, D.C., this week to lobby Congress on global warming and DACA, the program protecting immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives from deportation.
God, guns and Gen Z
By C.S. Pearce — March 14, 2018
(RNS) — You don’t have to be clairvoyant to predict that those 'In God We Trust' signs will drive more Florida students into the nonbelievers’ camp.
Diversity trouble at Duke Divinity
By Lauren Markoe — May 19, 2017
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) Black students at Duke Divinity School demand to be taught their own story from professors who understand the life and witness of the black church, writes Carl W. Kenney.
Fuller Theological Seminary students want a sanctuary campus
By Kirkland An — November 23, 2016
(RNS) In a letter to the president, students, faculty and alumni petitioned for the school to refuse to comply with immigration officials if they come to deport undocumented members of the Fuller community.
University of California softens anti-Semitism statement
By Reuters — March 24, 2016
The action by California's flagship public university sought to strike a balance between condemning intolerance and protecting free speech.
Kenya’s Garissa University reopens nine months after massacre
By Fredrick Nzwili — January 5, 2016
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Only about 60 students, mostly Muslim, are expected to attend when classes resume Monday (Jan. 11). Before the attack the university had about 800 students.
Hispanic Christians launch initiative to bolster minority student achievement
By Adelle M. Banks — September 4, 2014
(RNS) “We say that pastors and principals should meet," said Carlos Campo, chair of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference’s Hispanic Education Alliance.
After atheists asked, Tufts creates first university-funded Humanist position
By Chris Stedman — September 3, 2014
Five years after a group of atheist and agnostic students launched a campaign to get a Humanist chaplain at Tufts, the university has created a Humanist staff position—the first of its kind in the U.S.
Notre Dame signals welcome to gay athletes in new campaign
By David Gibson — May 8, 2014
(RNS) The Catholic Church has taken a lot of heat over its stance against gay rights and for policies that often bar openly gay people from participating in church life. But the University of Notre Dame, an icon of American Catholicism, is going against the flow by supporting student athletes who come out as gay.
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