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Friendships Matter: The Role of Peer Relationships in Interfaith Learning and Development

Kevin Singer
Research Summary
November 13, 2019

If you want to know who or what is influencing a college student, start by looking at their peers. Few sources of influence make as great an impact on students as their friends. Close friendships are especially impactful, as they require deep emotional investment and sustained interactions between friends over time. How are close friendships..

Safe Spaces, Brave Spaces, and Student Appreciation of Other Worldviews

Kevin Singer
Research Summary
December 3, 2018

When it comes to socializing college students to be successful in diverse environments, few approaches have received as much attention as the “safe space.” There is some deliberation on what qualifies as a safe space, and it is not exactly clear when and where the safe space concept was born. However the underlying logic runs..