Why Campuses Need Centers for Pluralism

Now more than ever, colleges must help students learn to cooperate across differences, writes Eboo Patel. "In my work as founder and president of Interfaith America, an organization dedicated to proactively engaging religious diversity, I have come to believe that being able to work well with people with whom you disagree is the single most important value for a diverse community. Imagine if doctors who have different views on the war in the Middle East refused to perform heart surgery together. Or if firefighters who had different politics regarding gun control refused to fight fires together. Or if Little League coaches with different views on abortion refused to coach together." Read more in Inside Higher Ed!