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Tag: Muslim
COVID-19
Campus Chaplains Get Creative Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
When classes pivoted online in response to the coronavirus, so did chaplaincy, and campus faith leaders have been getting creative to continue remotely supporting their diverse student communities.
June 10, 2020
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Chaplaincy Support Can Boost Students’ Academic Success
Religious minority communities are growing on American college campuses, but they’re still less likely to have their own campus chaplains. Chaplains offer pastoral care, run religious events, advocate for religious students, engage interfaith work and they can also be a factor in students’ academic success.
September 24, 2019
News Roundup
Shenandoah University Welcomes First Muslim Chaplain
Shenandoah University has introduced its first non-Christian chaplain, Hanaa Unus, who will serve as the school’s new Muslim community coordinator. “Shenandoah is open to people of all faiths, or no faith, exploring their belief system and being leaders in this world for the greater good,” said Rev. Dr. Justin Allen, dean of spiritual life. “Hanaa […]
August 9, 2019
Students
Czech Appeals Court Upholds Hijab Ban at Nursing School
PRAGUE — A Czech appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that went against a Somali student who accused a nursing school of discrimination because she wears a hijab. Ayan Jamaal Ahmednuur demanded an apology and 60,000 koruna ($2,750) in compensation but the Prague 10 district court ruled in January there was no evidence […]
September 19, 2017
Students
Israeli University Department Criticized for Nixing Anthem
JERUSALEM  — An Israeli university department’s decision not to play the national anthem at a graduation ceremony on Thursday has sparked outrage from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. A Hebrew University of Jerusalem spokesman confirmed an Army Radio report that the Humanities Faculty will not play the anthem at the event “out of consideration” for […]
May 18, 2017
Students
Rollins College Student Suspended for Treatment of Muslim Professor
WINTER PARK, Fla. — A student at Rollins College in Florida has been suspended temporarily for his treatment of his Muslim professor. The Christian student says he is the victim of religious discrimination. A disciplinary hearing was held Tuesday for Rollins student Marshall Polston. The outcome is pending. The Orlando Sentinel reports that professor Areej […]
March 29, 2017
Students
Universities Tell Judge Travel Ban Hurts Schools, Students
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s travel ban already has harmed some of the nation’s top universities, stranding students, faculty and scholars abroad and making foreign schools more attractive to some of the world’s brightest students, lawyers for the learning institutions told a federal judge. The schools said in papers filed Monday in Brooklyn federal […]
February 14, 2017
International
Iranian Researcher Blocked from Entering U.S. Sues Trump
BOSTON — An Iranian scientist heading to Boston to take a job at a Harvard Medical School lab has sued President Donald Trump after she was denied entry into the U.S. Samira Asgari says in her lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court that she was denied entry to the U.S. even though she had […]
February 2, 2017
Students
Higher Ed Seeks Footing Amid Immigration Policy Chaos
Questions about the implementation and reach of President Trump’s executive order on immigration and refugee rights still roil, three days after it was signed.
January 30, 2017
African-American
Guillermo: Diversity Vote not Enough as Trump Triumphs
Republicans vowed 2016 would be different, at least when it comes to diversity.
November 9, 2016
Students
Muslim Woman Settles in at Vermont Military College
NORTHFIELD, Vt. ― Despite being the first woman allowed to wear a Muslim headscarf beneath her military uniform at the nation’s oldest private military college, Sana Hamze says she doesn’t feel like a pioneer. Her focus is on learning details of life as a “rook” at Vermont’s Norwich University, in the school’s Corps of Cadets […]
October 16, 2016
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