Eboo Patel
President, Interfaith America. Follow @InterfaithUSA. Author, ‘We Need To Build’. Podcast: https://t.co/aQhOpTapZr. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
persuasion.community | Eboo Patel
This piece is part of a series, generously made possible by the support of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, on pluralism and dialogue in education. In 2020, Steven Wilson, former education adviser to the governor of Massachusetts, was condemned as racist and fired from his job for writing an essay on the educational philosophy underlying the network of charter schools he founded.
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1 month ago |
philanthropy.com | Eboo Patel
A few weeks ago, Steve Kerr, the head coach of the Golden State Warriors, made an important political statement by wearing a Harvard T-shirt to a postgame news conference. When asked if the shirt was about the Trump administration’s threats against the university, Kerr lauded Harvard for “standing up to the bully” and spoke about his support for both academic freedom and the independence of civic institutions.
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1 month ago |
philanthropy.com | Eboo Patel
While I’m a Muslim, I am fond of citing Catholic philosophers and theologians on pluralism. I quote Father John Courtney Murray, a mid-20th-century Jesuit leader, and his definition of pluralist civilization as a society where people of diverse identities and divergent ideologies live and talk together. I often talk about Father Ted Hesburgh’s description of the University of Notre Dame, the institution he led for 35 years, as a “lighthouse and a crossroads,” a model for all campuses.
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1 month ago |
philanthropy.com | Eboo Patel
Last week, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker showed what toughness looks like in an era when fighting for a just society is a nonstop endurance test. Booker, one of only 14 African Americans to ever serve in the Senate, spoke against Trump administration policies for more than 25 hours straight without a bathroom break, surpassing Senator Strom Thurmond’s previous record — in that case for a speech opposing civil rights legislation.
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2 months ago |
persuasion.community | Eboo Patel
The following is adapted from “An Alternative to Antiracism” published in the recent Diversity issue of SAPIR, a journal of ideas for a thriving Jewish future.
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RT @faithangleforum: @emmaogreen, journalist @NewYorker and @EbooPatel, founder of @interfaithusa, discuss the genesis of DEI, where it we…
Smart smart piece @JohnInazu . Love that you quoted: “As scholars and educational officers, they should remember that the public may judge their profession and their institution by their utterances. Hence they … should show respect for the opinions of others …”
Colleges and universities have shown little introspection as to how those of us in higher education might be part of the problem. Perhaps we are contributorily negligent to creating the political culture that makes these vicious attacks possible. https://t.co/iR5TqygCy8
I love that the metaphor of university as gym is getting around. @VanJones68 used it @UChiPolitics in 2020, and more recently @interfaithusa conference in March. May it spread. https://t.co/VQcd7vLfgz
This metaphor was introduced to me by my Kennedy School colleague Tarek Masoud.
