Brilliant Steering Group meeting yesterday, chaired by @faithbelieforum's @TimMortimer. Fantastic conversations about case study and social media with academics, HE staff, @ParliaMentors graduates and religious leaders with an expertise in faith and belief on campus.
We're bringing the USA @IDEALSresearch to the UK to explore how uni campus climates enable or impede positive relationships among students of different faiths and worldview perspectives, including varieties of faith, spirituality and non-religion #IDEALSUK#research#HigherEd
The analysis on religion course-taking decisions is in the @IDEALSresearch data set, if you're interested in teaching about religion, religious literacy, interfaith work, and/or religious, secular, and spiritual identities and #HigherEd you should check out IDEALS /2
Excited to share this new research using data from @IDEALSresearch! Grateful to my coauthors and my community at @UMKCSOE for their support along the way!
In a new study, researchers explore the role college experiences play in the development of a self-authored spiritual worldview in first-year STEM students transitioning to college. Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition available at bit.ly/JFYESIT322e
#GenZ is pretty politically engaged. But the vote of two groups of college students appear still up for grabs: Asian Americans and first-generation students. The most likely young people to cast their ballot: Native Americans
"Among the things that we found through @IDEALSresearch was that when you ask students what they focused on in terms of diversity, everything about religious diversity is under the 50% mark." -@EbooPatel about religious diversity on college campuses
@IDEALSresearch uncovers 5 reasons why interfaith engagement needs to be prioritized right now on campus - from being an antidote to rising polarization, to a proven demand from students to engage with topics of religious diversity. Read more ifyc.org/article/5-reasons-p…