How can campus life become more hospitable to the human spirit? This book invites everyone concerned with the quality and meaning of campus life to engage in new conversations about the spiritual and religious dimensions of diversity, leadership, student development, and learning. This book challenges conventions in higher education that neglect religious identity and spiritual exploration while perpetuating disconnection, competition, and separation from our natural and social environments. It offers innovative approaches for positive change, while addressing the complex legal, organizational, and cultural issues involved in this conversation. Grounded in original research and professional practice, this collection includes reflections from college presidents, campus leaders, student affairs staff members, and faculty.

The Contributors: Vachel W. Miller, Merle M. Ryan, Judy Raper, Jennifer L. Walters, Peter Laurence, Victor H. Kazanjian, Jr., Ora Gladstone, Marie V. McDemmond, Arthur R. Jackson, Jacqueline A. Curtis, Mary Alice Scott, Georg Buehler, Kenny Felder, Margaret L. Causey, Richard A. Berman, Leon Tilson Burrows, Sarah Stockton, Kathleen E. Allen, Gar Kellom, Gil Stafford, Margaret A. Jablonski, Katja Hahn d’Errico, Joel Grossman, Fan Yihong, Patricia E. Martin, Jane Fried, Alberto Arenas. The Editors: Vachel W. Miller is a doctoral candidate in the Policy and Leadership Program at the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on new approaches to learning, international development education, and spirituality in education. Merle M. Ryan is Assistant Dean of Students and Chair of the Religious Affairs Committee at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She served as Program Chair for the ‘Going Public with Spirituality’ conference held at the university in June 2000.