As educators, we each hold privileged and minoritized identities which can be leveraged to navigate difficulties across difference. In the article below, we discuss how working in coalition across professional relationships might help educators navigate intergroup tensions on campus. We offer strategies for higher education professionals to…

Worldview is often neglected as a dimension of holistic student learning and development in college, yet certain higher education practitioners are deeply committed to supporting students with diverse religious, spiritual, and secular identities. This article explores common characteristics among these "interfaith champions" and how…

Addressing the inclusivity of culturally relevant evaluation and interfaith assessment, we propose several methodological considerations for designing quantitative and qualitative assessment. We conclude the chapter with a call to transformative interfaith work.

The skill development of equanimity and empathy gained through spiritual growth equips students to examine solutions to complex problems in a diverse, global society. This chapter explores intentional multicultural initiatives designed to foster spiritual development and interfaith engagement as means to navigate difference and social good.

Reviews racial bias and racial intolerance among college students during the late 1980s. Asserts that campus bias-related indents are predictable outcomes of increasingly self-interested values and limited personal experience with racial and ethnic diversity. Discusses the need to create more opportunities for contact and interaction among…

Although little research is available on the evaluation of peer intervention programs, several strategies and approaches can be used by educators to determine the effectiveness of prejudice reduction efforts. Presents a sample program evaluation. Notes the importance of a clear theoretical framework and understanding of the factors to be examined…

Presents a peer training model illustrating how a campus can involve its students, faculty, and administrators in effective prejudice-reducing strategies. Presents the operational assumptions governing the National Coalition-Building Institute's training programs, the theory and methodology of its prejudice reduction model, and a process for…

The authors explore the relationships between social justice attitudes and actions, the social construction of identity, and cognitive development.

Presents a theoretical framework suggesting ways to design peer intervention programs and group existing programs. Suggests criteria for effective racial awareness programs, discussing examples of successful college prejudice activities. Notes diversity education efforts are most successful when based on a theoretical model that recognizes the…

Describes ways black students and white students organize and interact on college campuses. Students overwhelmingly interact with others of their own race, but such patterns can be changed and racist attitudes can be defused by facilitating new patterns of social interaction. Discusses the promotion of future racial interaction and the acceptance…

Investigates interactions between student background characteristics and college entrance criteria and the behaviors that students have in college. Precollege characteristics and college experiences affect student performance and satisfaction, as reported in this study of African American and white students on a predominantly white campus.…

This chapter discusses the difficulties associated with developing a social justice ally identity and provides practical suggestions to overcome them.