March 17, 2011
New White House Effort Urges College Leaders to Promote Interfaith Understanding
By Tushar Rae
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships plans to announce today an effort to foster religious tolerance on college campuses by bringing together groups of all faiths to work on community-service projects.
The effort, called the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, asks college presidents to commit to advancing interfaith understanding on their campuses. The White House plans to create a Web site containing resources that colleges can use to begin the process of bringing groups together. And President Obama is expected to tout the effort in an online video to be posted on the site….
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