In the News: The Imperative to Support Muslim Students
Springtide Research Institute was recently featured by Inside Higher Ed. This article, The Imperative to Support Muslim Students is reprinted in part below, but we encourage you to visit their site to read the piece in its entirety.
A massive survey Sadaf Jaffer recently completed two terms in Montgomery Township, N.J., serving as the first Muslim mayor in the United States. Now a postdoctoral research associate at the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University, on Sept. 11, 2001, she was a freshman at Georgetown University, where she could see the Pentagon burning from campus. “I remember just a sense of fear, certainly among the Muslim students, about not wanting to be alone around campus,” she told USA Today.
