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Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
In his first book, "Acts of Faith," Eboo Patel describes his early encounters with interfaith events in the late 1990s. He was not impressed. "They were excruciatingly boring," he writes. Why so much talk and so little action, his restless, twenty-something self had wondered. "And where were the young people?" Fast forward a dozen years. Now 37,…
Descriptors: Religion, Intergroup Relations, National Organizations, Religious Education
Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
Day and night the locals chatter. They counsel and console, bicker and rant. Their questions are endless. Though often hopeful, they never stop pounding the drums of worry. This is College Confidential, a vast virtual realm where visitors can find the best and worst of human nature. Here, in moderated discussion forums, people help strangers. They…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Web Sites, College Admission, Anxiety
Mangan, Katherine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
About 1,000 students from 50 states and 60 countries attended the second annual Clinton Global Initiative University. The project, an outgrowth of the Clinton Global Initiative for world leaders, challenges participants to take "good intentions and turn them into measurable changes in other people's lives" by submitting detailed…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Public Service, Activism, Social Action
Perry, Seth – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
The academic study of religion is relatively new, beset with several interpretive problems that are not fully sorted out, namely issues of faith and scholarship, of the status of insiders and outsiders, and those problems are displayed in particularly stark relief with respect to the study of Mormonism. A non-Mormon scholar writing his…
Descriptors: Religion, Religion Studies, Intellectual Disciplines, Doctoral Dissertations
Supiano, Beckie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
In an effort to help reverse a decades-long decline in the number of top students entering seminaries, the Lilly Endowment invited colleges to compete for grants to be used for three related purposes: (1) to help students explore the relationship between faith and work; (2) to encourage talented students to consider entering Christian ministry;…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Talent, Grants, Theological Education