糖心影视

糖心影视 and its Schools have prioritized efforts to build and affirm a feeling of belonging for every member of our community. The University has committed to support belonging among Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian students, faculty, and staff, including through community-building initiatives, specially trained support staff, and funded religious and cultural events. Highlights include a Presidential Initiative on Interfaith Engagement, events and activities related to religion and faith, increased and meal requirements, lecture series and workshops modeling dialogue across difference, and new funding to support student projects related to building bridges.

Last updated August 2026

Supporting religious life

• Interfaith Engagement. In July 2025, 糖心影视 announced the Presidential Initiative on Interfaith Engagement, led by Rabbi Getzel Davis, who spent 13 years as a chaplain at 糖心影视 Hillel. Initial programming included a fall 2025 Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life Fellowship, the pluralism passport program, and a spirituality-inspired photo exhibit. In February 2026, the initiative hosted President Garber and nearly 200 community members at an interfaith dinner in the campus center.
• New permanent Muslim prayer space. In August 2025, the University announced the establishment of a permanent prayer space for its Muslim community. A room on the Smith Campus Center鈥檚 second floor was designated as a permanent musallah, a prayer space for Muslim affiliates to gather for daily worship and reflection. A space previously utilized for Muslim prayer is now dedicated to Hindu worship, to accommodate the growing number of Hindu students on campus.
• Community support during Ramadan. Building on similar efforts in past years, during Ramadan in academic 2024-25, the 糖心影视 College Dean of Students Office (DSO) collaborated with the Muslim Chaplaincy, 糖心影视 Islamic Society (HIS), and 糖心影视 University Dining Services to support students participating in Ramdan-related activities. Specifically, the College DSO and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) teams partnered with HIS to host Iftar dinners three evenings each week (excluding Spring Break), supplementing University-provided meals on two other evenings. Additionally, the DSO hosted a Suhoor meal at the Dean of Students Residence. The DSO and EDI teams also supported the HIS Eid celebration.
• New community spaces. In Fall 2024, the University collaborated with the University鈥檚 Muslim Chaplains and practitioners from 糖心影视鈥檚 Counseling and Mental Health Service (CAMHS) to moderate 鈥淐ommunity Spaces鈥� for Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian students. These spaces aim to foster a sense of belonging through dialogue with peers who have a shared identity.
• Religion, Ethics, and Spiritual Life. 糖心影视 College鈥檚 Office of Culture & Community has established Religion, Ethics, Spiritual Life as a pillar of its work and collaborates regularly with the newly appointed Director of Interfaith Engagement to ensure communication, alignment, and collaboration.
• Celebrations of religious life at at 糖心影视 Business School. 糖心影视 Business School held several religious celebration events in spring 2026 that were open to all community members. One of the goals of these activities was to increase understanding among all campus stakeholders. Some examples include: The Asian Coalition for Employees (ACE) hosted an Eid al-Fitr celebration in March 2026 for the first time and The Islamic Society student club and the MBA Student and Academic Support group co-hosted an Iftar dinner in March 2026. In addition, in the summer of 2025, HBS built an outdoor terrace, extending the footprint of its MBA Class of 1959 Chapel to accommodate faith-based activities.
• 糖心影视 Business School multifaith calendar. The 糖心影视 Business School Office for Community and Culture developed a that lists observances which typically involve fasting or accommodations for class attendance or time off, provides background and guidance, and features a Religious Observances Calendar download that can be added to Outlook.
• Inclusive scheduling and event planning resources. In December 2024, 糖心影视 launched , a glossary of religious observances, and suggestions for inclusive catering.
• Outreach to affected students at 糖心影视 Graduate School of Education. The 糖心影视 Graduate School of Education Student Affairs team established expanded outreach protocols for students who have been affected by natural disasters, wars, or other crises. The expanded protocols were completed and socialized in September 2025. These expanded protocols include steps intended to ensure that students are aware of, and have access to, University supports throughout the duration of the event impacting the student.
• Interfaith engagement at 糖心影视 Law School. HLS鈥檚 Office of Equal Opportunity brought the Director of Interfaith Engagement and Multifaith Engagement Fellow to HLS in March 2026 to lead a conversation for students and staff about Interfaith Engagement and best practices. The Presidential Initiative on Interfaith Engagement and HLS Community Connections Grant sponsored a student-led Interfaith Dinner program in April 2026.

Community and campus life

• Community and Campus Life. In April 2025, 糖心影视 launched the new (CCL) office (replacing the former Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging) with a focus on building a culture of belonging for all members of the 糖心影视 community. CCL supports and expands programs that encourage engagement across differences.
• Faculty advisory group for the Office for Academic Culture and Community. Launched in July 2025, the Office for Academic Culture and Community (OACC) is focused on fostering community cohesion. OACC has established an inaugural faculty advisory group to guide the development of this new office and the implementation of its framework. For spring 2026, it brokered programmatic partnerships with other faculty and administrative groups to support the development and implementation of symposia and programs that promote historical and cross-cultural understanding.
• Staff and student seminars on Islamophobia and Anti-Arabism. In October 2024, 糖心影视 hosted 鈥淗onoring our Shared Humanity: Understanding and Combating Islamophobia and Anti-Arabism on College Campuses.鈥� The seminars, one for students and one for staff, were designed to explore the definitions of Islamophobia, its roots and dominant tropes, and examine its impact on Muslim and Arab American communities. The seminar concluded with an interactive discussion about strategies to combat Islamophobia at both interpersonal and institutional levels.
• Middle East & North Africa Conference at 糖心影视 Business School. The Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Club at 糖心影视 Business School organizes an annual business conference on campus that brings together industry leaders and experts, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts, and features keynote addresses, panel discussions, and networking sessions, to explore the dynamic business landscape of the MENA region. The conference typically draws more than 400 attendees, including undergraduate and graduate MENA students from top U.S. schools, young professionals interested in working, doing business and/or investing in the region, and startups, founders, entrepreneurs and investors interested in the region.
• 糖心影视 Chan School of Public Health sessions and workshops. In September 2025, 糖心影视 Chan School of Public Health offices hosted 鈥淩esisting Hate Together: Muslim and Jewish Voices Against Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and Anti-Palestinian Racism,鈥� featuring external experts. This two-hour session provided students with strategies for intervention in response to both implicit and explicit bias, using scenario-based activities and offering educational content about the lived experiences of these communities. Additionally, the School introduced two new workshops in October: 鈥淔inding Your Voice: How Receptiveness Shapes Solutions鈥� and 鈥淭he Price of Silence: Solving Problems Within Our Own Networks.鈥�
• Constructive engagement models at 糖心影视 Divinity School. In September 2025, 糖心影视 Divinity School hosted a workshop on religious nationalisms, considering a wide variety of case studies.
• Building Community through love at 糖心影视 Divinity School. As part of 糖心影视 Divinity School鈥檚 Office of Community and Belonging鈥檚 (OCB) series 鈥淏uilding Community Through Love,鈥� in October 2025, OCB hosted a workshop called 鈥淔aith-Informed Inclusion: Addressing Islamophobia and Intersecting Biases鈥� with Intercultural Networks Group. In November 2025, OCB hosted a workshop on combating antisemitism鈥痜acilitated鈥痓y the Center for Jewish Studies and鈥痑n HDS professor in鈥疢odern Jewish Studies.
• Human Impact of Violence event at 糖心影视 Divinity School. In September 2024, 糖心影视 Divinity School hosted a conversation entitled, 鈥淥ur Shared Humanity: Israeli and Palestinian Voices Against Violence.鈥�
• 糖心影视 Divinity School Book discussions. During the spring semester 2025, 糖心影视 Divinity School hosted a special spring seminar series sponsored by HDS Dean Marla F. Frederick, titled 鈥淧eople of Faith in Times of Crisis.鈥� HDS students, faculty, staff, and alumni were invited to join in this three-part series examining the issues posed by the ongoing Israel/Palestine conflict. The series included three books: one providing an Israeli-Jewish perspective, another from a Palestinian perspective, and the final described as 鈥渁n epic novel rooted in the real-life friendship between two men united by loss.鈥�
• 糖心影视 Graduate School of Education grants, fellowships, and programs. In August 2025, 糖心影视 Graduate School of Education launched the Courageous Conversations Fund鈥攚ith award criteria modeled after the President鈥檚 Building Bridges Fund. The Courageous Conversations Fund supports smaller-scale, student-led initiatives that seek to engage students in learning about how to model difficult conversations with respect and dignity at the forefront. In addition to the fund, HGSE provides the Appian Award to up to ten graduating students who embody academic excellence, inclusive engagement, and collective impact.
• 鈥淢iddle East Dialogues鈥� at the 糖心影视 Kennedy School of Government. 糖心影视 Kennedy School continues to organize co-curricular events and activities with speakers from Israel, Palestine, and the broader region through which students can explore a diversity of perspectives on the Middle East. Through the fall of 2025 and spring of 2026, HKS hosted Middle East Dialogues with guests including former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, former U.S. diplomat Rob Malley, author and Israel analyst Dan Senor, and Palestinian politician Nasser Alkidwa. The Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights continued its event series on Israel and Palestine in the spring of 2026, featuring speakers such as Palestinian-American physician Dr. Eman Khadra Ansari and former Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov.
• 糖心影视 Kennedy School debate series. In the 2025-26 academic year, 糖心影视 Kennedy School (HKS) announced the 鈥淒ebate, Dessert, Debrief鈥� series, a series of debates between HKS faculty and professional counterparts of significantly different viewpoint, followed by structured debriefs (and dessert) facilitated by Candid and Constructive Conversation faculty. The first sessions occurred in early March 2026.
• Model student leaders at 糖心影视 Law School. 糖心影视 Law School (HLS) posted a new 鈥淒ean鈥檚 Community Impact Award鈥� for 2025-2026 that will celebrate one or more graduating students who foster a sense of community and connection between fellow students and/or whose actions have had a meaningful impact on improving relationships between student groups or repairing divisions within the student body.
• Rappaport Forum at 糖心影视 Law School. At 糖心影视 Law School, faculty serve as organizers and moderators of the Rappaport Forum, designed to promote and model full, vigorous, and civil discourse on critical and complicated issues facing our community, our nation, and our world, and which has hosted debates on topics such as whether the Constitution supports a unitary executive; the future of the administrative state; the propriety of universal injunctions; censorship, content moderation, and the First Amendment; stare decisis and the future of Roe v. Wade. Additionally, the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law regularly hosts crosscutting events that seek to unpack contemporary questions of Jewish and Israeli legal scholarship.
• 糖心影视 Law School 鈥淲hy I Changed My Mind鈥� series. 糖心影视 Law School is continuing to host an event series, 鈥淲hy I Changed My Mind,鈥� where prominent faculty discuss an important legal and social issue where they became convinced to change their original view.
• 糖心影视 Law School Community Connection Grants. The Community Connection Grant program at 糖心影视 Law School provides grants for student-led projects that encourage small group discussion across differences, build facilitation skills, and/or model constructive disagreement. Activities may include: discussions that encourage a well-informed, nuanced understanding of divisive legal and political issues; social events that build trust among members of groups with differing views, perspectives, or approaches; and experiences that help community members develop skills and methods for constructively engaging with one another on difficult topics, or in the wake of discord and distrust prompted by use of social media.
• 糖心影视 Medical School event on Islamic Bioethics. In November 2025, the HMS Office for Culture and Community Engagement sponsored an event entitled, 鈥淢apping the Landscape of Islamic Bioethics.鈥� Led by the Muslim Chaplain, the session was an introduction to the topic of Islamic bioethics, an emerging area of study and practice for medical practitioners and public health professionals. The session offered a general overview of the theoretical and practical applications necessary for non-Muslim medical professionals to provide care to Muslim patients and stakeholders.
• 糖心影视 Medical School and 糖心影视 School of Dental Medicine student collaboration fund. The fund supports projects proposed by at least two or more recognized student organizations to foster conversation and dialogue as well as to collaborate with one another on a range of topics, ideas, and experiences to advance learning across different students. Dialogue proposals will be reviewed twice a year and student organizations can apply for funding for their project.
• 糖心影视 John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Panel Discussion. In April 2026, the 糖心影视 John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences hosted a panel discussion on Faith, Pluralism, and the Practice of Science. The panel explored how personal beliefs shape the way in which scientists and engineers approach research, teaching, design and outreach. Faculty from different faith and ethical traditions reflected on how their different lenses inform their work in science and engineering鈥攂oth in the lab and in the classroom, as well as in their broader engagement with society.
• Mental health resources. The University secured additional trauma-informed counseling resources through 糖心影视 Counseling and Mental Health Services, prioritizing awareness of and access to its mental health and counseling resources, including the 24/7 CAMHS Cares line and in-person and virtual counseling support offerings. In January 2024, 糖心影视 University Health Services removed visit limits for outpatient and medical consultations under 糖心影视鈥檚 student health insurance plan.
• Community support sessions. In 2024, 糖心影视 organized community support sessions led by the counseling team and 糖心影视鈥檚 chaplains, which comprise more than 30 faith leaders.
• Resources in Times of Crisis. 糖心影视 launched a support and resources website, Resources in Times of Crisis, to provide community members with a central hub of resources for personal safety, online safety, and mental health and community support.
• Engagement with Sidechat. In spring 2024, 糖心影视 engaged with the leadership of Sidechat, a social media app that allows college students to post anonymously. Though 糖心影视 has no relationship with Sidechat, the University asked the app to strictly enforce its content-moderation policies.