ADVISORY/Religious Pluralism and Spirituality in Higher Education to be Explored at Wellesley College Gathering.

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WHAT:  More than 750 presidents, chancellors, students, faculty,
       administrators, and trustees from 350 colleges and universities
       across the country will discuss impact of religious diversity
       and the role of spirituality in higher education.
WHEN:  Sunday and Monday, September 27-28
WHERE: Wellesley College Campus in Wellesley, Mass (Route 135)
WHO:   The presenters include some of the top educators, religion
       professors and religious leaders from across the country. They
       include the following:
       --Dr. Parker Palmer, Senior Associate of the American
         Association of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
       --Diana L. Eck, professor of Comparative Religion and Indian
         Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
       --The Rev. Peter Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals
         and Pusey Minister in the memorial Church at Harvard
         University, Cambridge, MA
       --Dr. Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa professor of Indo-Tibetan
         Studies at Columbia University, New York City
       --Vincent Harding, professor of Religion and Social
         Transformation at the Iliff School of Theology, Denver,
         Colorado
       --More than 75 other educators, including 30 college and
         university presidents, will lead workshops and panel
         discussions.
NOTES: For the media: Between 3:40-4 p.m., the main speakers will be
       available for a press briefing on Sunday, Sept. 27 in Billings
       200, second floor of the Schneider Center.

       For Television Assignment Editors: Between 4-5:30 p.m., Sunday,
       Sept. 27, Wellesley College and Brown University students will
       conduct at the Houghton Chapel a multi-faith celebration of
       Education as a Spiritual Journey:
       -- Greetings and prayers from the Christian, Jewish, Native
          American, Muslim, Jain, Wican, Baha'i and Sikh traditions
       -- Chinese Lion Ceremony
       -- Procession, Dance and Drum Ensemble, from Native African
          Tradition
       -- Responsive Reading by Diana Chapman Walsh, President of
          Wellesley College,
       -- Bell Chant from the Buddhist Tradition
       -- Song from Unitarian Universalist Tradition
       -- Classical Hindu Dance

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