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Interfaith, Spiritual, Religious, and Secular (INSPIRES) Campus Climate Index

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The Inspires Index for Making Campuses Welcoming

The Inspires Index is an inventory based on empirical work to identify elements that make a campus welcoming for diverse student groups such as Jewish, Muslim, atheist, and evangelical students. The index highlights specific needs for different groups, like providing kosher meals for Jewish students and being cognizant of holidays like Ramadan for Muslim students. It emphasizes the importance of faculty and staff understanding and accommodating the unique requirements of each group to create a truly inclusive campus environment.

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So really what the Inspires Index is. It is an inventory that is based on years of empirical work designed to really extract what kind of elements on a campus makes that
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campus welcoming
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for say Muslim students, for Jewish students, for atheist students, for evangelicals. And what we learned in the, in the empirical process is that those elements differ. For Jewish students, for example, they feel welcoming, a more welcoming on presence on campus or a more welcoming campus climate experience when they know that there are kosher meals provided at all dining halls, not just at one that they have to run across campus in the cold to get to. They want to be able to go with their friends to whatever the friends choose. And so for that reason, maybe that kind of experience is important for them. For Muslim students, it's very important. These are just examples that faculty are attentive to holidays like Ramadan. And what does it mean to assign major tests, major papers during this month of fasting for this group of students, right? And whose responsibility is it to make sure that people are aware of that? Is it the students in the classroom who asked to go to the faculty member to say, oh my gosh, this is why I observe. So the, the, the onus of, of responsibilities on the students, or is it on the structures, the people who represent those structures like the faculty and staff to be able to know that that's coming, right? And so when we pulled that all together, we were able to come up with an index to satisfy what's welcoming for each group.

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