{"id":75,"date":"2010-07-21T14:34:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipsinaction.com\/ips\/?p=75"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:46:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:46:35","slug":"interfaith-leadership-and-transformative-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Interfaith Leadership and Transformative Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, August 27, <strong>Eboo Patel, PhD<\/strong>, the founder and executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core and a member of<strong> <\/strong>President  Obama\u2019s advisory council of the White House Office of Faith-Based and  Neighborhood Partnerships, will deliver a public lecture on the Lake  Shore Campus. Patel will discuss \u201cInterfaith Leadership and  Transformative Education\u201d at 7 p.m., in the Mundelein Center Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>Named one of America\u2019s Best Leaders of 2009 by <em>U.S.News &amp; World Report<\/em>, Patel is the award-winning author of <em>Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation<\/em> and a regular contributor to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, National Public Radio, and CNN<em>. <\/em>He was named one of ten young Muslim visionaries shaping Islam in America by <em>Islamica Magazine<\/em> and he was also chosen by Harvard\u2019s <em>Kennedy School Review<\/em> as one of five future policy leaders to watch. This May, he was honored  at Loyola\u2019s 2010 Commencement with an honorary Doctor of Humane  Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Patel\u2019s visit is sponsored by Loyola University&#8217;s Office of the Provost, the School  of Education, the Division of Public Affairs, and the Office of  First-Year Experience. For more information on Patel and his Interfaith  Youth Core, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ifyc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, August 27, Eboo Patel, PhD, the founder and executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core and a member of President Obama\u2019s advisory council of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, will deliver a public lecture on the Lake Shore Campus. Patel will discuss \u201cInterfaith Leadership and Transformative Education\u201d at 7 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=75\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4840,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/4840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}