The Deep Differences Project: Charrette Four – Struggling to Embrace Diversity: Presidential Reflections on Institutional Shortcomings
About the facilitators:
Omar Qureshi is currently the provost and assistant professor of Liberal Arts and Islamic Studies at Zaytuna College, which he joined in August 2017. After obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in Microbiology, he went on to complete his M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction – Science Education both from the University of Missouri – Columbia. Prior to Zaytuna College, for seven years Omar served as the principal and dean of academics for a parochial school located in Chicago’s West suburbs. While in Chicago, Omar completed his Ph.D. in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies: Philosophy of Education at Loyola University Chicago in 2016. His dissertation, entitled “Badr al-Dīn Ibn Jamāʿah and the Highest Good of Islamic Education”, treats the topic of educational institutional identity in the United States.
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