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From left to right, North Carolina Central University Interfaith Ambassadors Khalid Oloko, Charity Brown, Maryam Awan, Kelly Thomas, Joshua McLaurin and Lyric Harris at the Interfaith Youth Core Leadership Institute in Chicago. Photo courtesy of Gloria Winston-Harris.

Reconciliation, Interfaith, Education, Higher education

Gloria Winston-Harris: Conflict is healthy and can promote interfaith understanding

In an interfaith setting, resolving conflict as quickly as possible isn’t the goal. Rather, healthy conflict can be a spark that leads us to self-awareness, self-reflection and transformation, writes the director of North Carolina Central University’s Office of Spiritual Development and Dialogue.

Education, Higher education, Vocation

Episode 12: Matthew Croasmun on how (and why) to ask, "What makes a life worth living?"

In the final episode of “Can These Bones,” co-host Laura Everett talks with Matthew Croasmun about the popular Yale undergraduate course that invites students to apply the best of their intellectual energy to questions of meaning, purpose, value and worth.

Youth & Children, Youth ministry, Education, Higher education

Episode 6: Almeda M. Wright on the act of radical listening to young Christians

In this episode of “Can These Bones,” co-host Laura Everett talks with Almeda M. Wright, Yale Divinity School professor and the author of “The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans,” about her training and background as an engineer and her work with young people in ministry.

Education, Higher education, Technology, Teaching

James DeVaney: Academic innovation is a team sport

From MOOCs to teach-outs, leading change at the University of Michigan requires an openness to technology and a “team sport mentality,” says the associate vice provost for academic innovation.

Education, Higher education, Vocation

Tim Clydesdale: How can colleges help students grapple with vocation?

Programs that engage college students with questions of meaning and vocation help form them into resolute and resilient citizen-leaders, says the author of “The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students About Vocation.”

Education, Higher education

Earl Lewis: Universities need to ask critical questions about higher education

The head of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation says that universities need to think more broadly about how they engage communities, while also turning the lens of analysis on themselves.

Education, Higher education, Innovation, Institutional innovation

Mats A. Selen: The physics of change

Sometimes the most mundane changes can unleash innovation and creativity, says a University of Illinois physics professor. Here's what happened when his department changed how it teaches introductory courses.

Education, Higher education, Innovation, Institutional innovation

David Scobey: Let's do together what we can't do separately

Universities and religious institutions can work together to solve problems in their local communities, says a national leader on public engagement in higher education.

Innovation, Management, Education, Higher education

Scholarship, leadership, citizenship

A university in Ghana equips its students to be innovators in their fields through a dual focus on “hard skills” and liberal arts that foster creativity and civic engagement. Does your institution help employees connect their work to the good of society as a whole?

Education, Higher education, Innovation

Laurent Dubois: We had the idea, and we did it

The Haiti Lab is a three-year experiment in undergraduate education that uses the model of a research laboratory to explore questions in the humanities.

A learning resource for Christian leaders and their institutions from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity