November
3, 2015
I’m
pleased to inform you that the Virginia Wesleyan Center for the Study of
Religious Freedom (CSRF) has been invited to join the Kettering
Foundation's Centers for Public Life research exchange. According to
their website, the Kettering Foundation is described as a nonprofit operating
foundation rooted in the American tradition of cooperative research.
Kettering’s primary research question is, what does it take to make democracy
work as it should? Kettering’s research is distinctive because it is conducted
from the perspective of citizens and focuses on what people can do collectively
to address problems affecting their lives, their communities, and their nation.
Our
CSRF will be among 10 institutions participating in a one and a half year
exchange with the Kettering Foundation to focus on public deliberation as a
means of addressing pressing local or national issues. The first of five
meetings will be in February 2016 at the Foundation's campus in Dayton,
Ohio.
We
are excited about this opportunity which will help our Center for the Study of
Religious Freedom grow in ways that bring our campus and the community together
to an even greater degree.
Congratulations
to Professor of Religious Studies and the Joan P. and Macon F. Brock, Jr.
Director of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom, Dr. Craig Wansink,
and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom, Kelly
Jackson for garnering this opportunity for Virginia Wesleyan College.
