Emory University Interfaith Strategic Planning

Emory University is working with Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) to facilitate an interfaith strategic planning process in 2021 that will result in a blueprint for a multi-year interfaith strategic plan. As part of the strategic planning process, we want to understand how the Emory community engages religious, spiritual and philosophical identity currently. To this end, IFYC led interviews last spring with a set of faculty, staff, senior administrators and community leaders. In addition, several of the chaplains in the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life hosted listening sessions with students. Now, we’d like to invite you to share your experiences of religious spiritual and philosophical diversity at Emory by answering the following questions. The results will be used by IFYC and the Emory Interfaith Strategic Planning Steering Committee for internal planning purposes only. All responses are anonymous and will remain confidential.

1. From your perspective, does Emory embrace and support students in their religious or philosophical identities on campus? Why or why not? *This question is required.

2. Are you comfortable expressing your religious or philosophical identities on campus? (With friends, with faculty or staff? In the classroom?) Why or why not? *This question is required.

3. How often do you think you interact with students from religious or non-religious backgrounds different from your own? What is the context? (classroom, dining hall, student club meeting, dorm room, etc.) *This question is required.

4. We are defining interfaith cooperation as respect for religious and nonreligious identity, relationships across religious divides, and common action for the common good.

Where do you already see interfaith cooperation happening at Emory?

What could be done to enhance interfaith cooperation at Emory? *This question is required.

5. We are currently working with the Interfaith Youth Core to analyze our campus climate and create a strategic plan for advancing interfaith cooperation on campus. Do you have any other input or insights you’d like to share as we continue our interfaith strategic planning process? *This question is required.

Emory University Interfaith Strategic Planning - Student Input