ABSTRACT
This chapter provides student affairs practitioners and administrators with recommendations for practice and discusses the intersection of race and religion. There are two issues discouraging dialogue on religious diversity in higher education: bias or cultural propensity toward Christianity; and secularization of higher education. The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' (NASPA) knowledge community on religion and spirituality in higher education and the American College Student Personnel Association's (ACPA) Commission for Spirituality, Faith, Religion, and Meaning (CSFRM) collaborated to develop competencies addressing spirituality, secularism, religious pluralism, and interfaith cooperation within student affairs. Religious diversity work must include perspectives outside of traditional faith traditions and deities. As student affairs practitioners work to meet the needs of religious minorities, the religious minority experience may be more useful than knowledge of rituals attributed to a certain faith. Religious freedom can be an impetus for increased student engagement and satisfaction on college campuses across the United States.
