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Article: The changing chaplaincy: the role of religious leaders on campus as the spiritual needs of students evolve.
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- University Business
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- October 1, 2008
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YALE UNIVERSITY'S SHARON KUGLER just hired a coordinator for Muslim life. Another of her program coordinators recently searched out a kosher-Chinese food restaurant in surrounding New Haven. One might expect tasks like those to fall under the job description of many a modern university administrator, but not necessarily for the holder of one of the oldest university chaplaincies in the country.
Welcome to the modern college chaplaincy. "We look different and the student population looks different," Kugler says, reflecting on the changing criteria for choosing leaders of religious life at universities where the posts used to be ...