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tag name: Universities type: General; Universities
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University; Colleges
referring tags: `Abdu'l-Bahá, Talks at universities; Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE); Higher education
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19 results from the Main Catalog

14 results from the Chronology

1 result from the Chronology Canada

from the main catalog (19 results; collapse)

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  1. Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation, by Christopher Buck (2013). Overview of the event, press coverage, publications of the speech, the Emancipation Proclamation "myth" and its historical influence, the role of whites, and the rhetoric of progress.
  2. `Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech: A Civil War Discourse for Interracial Emancipation, by Christopher Buck, Nahzy Abadi Buck (2012-12-22). Presentation at Grand Canyon Bahá'í Conference on Abdu'l-Bahá and the Black Intelligentsia, especially W. E. B. Du Bois; his speech to the NAACP; and reproductions of many newspaper clippings covering his visit to Washington, DC.
  3. `Abdu'l-Bahá's Address at Clark University, by Abdu'l-Bahá (1912-05-23). Impromptu remarks on the topic of science and education.
  4. Alain Locke: Race Leader, Social Philosopher, Bahá'í Pluralist: 94th Annual Commemoration of 'Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Visit to Howard University, by Christopher Buck (2006-04-15). Available both as audio and PDF, and includes press release.
  5. Bahá'í Activities in University, by Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Seena Fazel, comp. (1997).
  6. Baha'i Institute Of Higher Education, The: A Creative And Peaceful Response To Religious Persecution In Iran, by Bahá'í International Community (1999-04-01). Overview of the history and architecture of BIHE, the independent, full-fledged, yet completely decentralized, university system run by Bahá'ís in Iran.
  7. Bahá'í Students and American University of Beirut in the Early 20th Century, by Reed M. Breneman (2008-02). The influential activities of the campus Bahá'í association in Beirut, 1900-1920 and during the first World War.
  8. Education for Interdependence: The University and the Global Citizen, by Michael Karlberg (2010). This paper advocates the value of an outcomes-based approach to global citizenship education and suggests a framework of core learning outcomes that can guide and inform the development of global citizenship curricula in universities.
  9. Harvard Pluralism Project: Bahá'í, by Author unknown (2023). Six overview essays on Bahá'í history, beliefs, and practices. (Offsite)
  10. Modernity as an Age of Transition, by Benjamin Schewel (2023-01-16). Modernity reconceptualized as a period of humanity’s collective adolescence; origins of the modern age of transition; ideological frustration; toward a new horizon of research and intellectual activity.
  11. Monologues on the Bicentenary of the Birth of Baha'u'llah and Howard University Visit Commemoration, by Vasu Mohan, Donna Denize, Nadim van de Fliert (2017-10/2018-04). Five biographical monologues delivered in the fictionalized voices of Harriett Gibbs Marshall, Laura Dreyfus Barney, Louis Gregory, Alain Locke, and Pocahontas Pope.
  12. New Knowledge from Old: Conceptions of the Library in the Writings of Shoghi Effendi, by Lev Rickards (2022-09). Conceptions of libraries in the writings of Shoghi Effendi compared to different meanings assigned to libraries throughout history; comments on Bahá’í beliefs that could inform the practice of librarianship; avenues for future research.
  13. Next Stage, The, by Douglas Martin (2013). Bahá'í scholars find themselves at a stage in the Faith’s development where they must construct a discourse that is free of "haughty intellectualism." The Association for Bahá’í Studies can help promote the Bahá'í cause to institutions of higher learning.
  14. Program for the Activities of the Bahá'í Students in the American University of Beirut, 1927-1928, Author unknown, comp. (1927). The program of the weekly meetings of the Bahá'í students in the American University of Beirut during the Bahá'í year 84-95 (1927-1928), including presentations by A.Q. Faizi, H.M. Balyuzi, Hasan and Ali Dehgan, Eshagh and Abbas Eqbal, et al.
  15. Public Discourse on Race: Abdu'l-Bahá's 1912 Howard University Speech, by Christopher Buck (2012-02-10). Presentation at Louhelen Bahá’í School on ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and the black intelligentsia, his views of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, and his message to African Americans and the "Whites."
  16. Shoghi Effendi in Oxford, by Riaz Khadem, and Her Eternal Crown, Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá'í Faith, by Della Marcus: Reviews, by Lil Osborn (2001).
  17. Social Justice, Higher Education and the Oneness of Humankind, by Filip Boicu (2016). Notions of social justice can be reconfigured and connected to a positive ideology for universities with the understandings of the unity of humankind, the process of globalization in the light of unity, and the role of universities as a medium for change.
  18. Universities as the Gatekeepers of the Intellectual Property of Indigenous People's Medical Knowledge, by Chris Jones Kavelin (2008). While this article is inspired by Bahá'í principles, it has no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
  19. What Is Bahá'í Education?, by Filip Boicu (2022-08). different current expectations about what should fall under the topic of "Bahá’í education"; three types of curricula (FUNDAEC, Anisa, BIHE) and their theoretical sources; these must be drawn together into a field of study; the importance of universities.

from the Chronology (14 results; collapse)

  1. 1912-05-23
      The Bahá'ís of Cambridge, Massachusetts, celebrated `Abdu'l-Bahá's birthday at the Breed home with a cake bearing 68 candles. (Significantly, He did not stay for the festivities. He forgave this time, but had forbidden the celebration of His birthday. Six years before He had told Khan and other pilgrims that besides Naw-Rúz, the Holy Days were only for the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh, that His birth on the twenty-second/twenty-third of May was 'only a coincidence'.) `Abdu'l-Bahá addressed the group on the importance of the Báb at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Breed, 367 Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. [239D:72; AB199, PUP138; AY89]
    • Before arriving in the early evening, He had proceeded to Worcester and addressed Clark University there. [AY95; Luminous Journey 1:00]
  2. 1912-10-08
  3. 1920-06-11 — Shoghi Effendi made application to Balliol College at Oxford University as a non-collegiate student for a period of two years. [PG134]
  4. 1920-10-01
      Shoghi Effendi entered Balliol College, Oxford University. [CB284; DH149; GBF11-12]
    • For his purpose in going to Oxford see GBF12.
    • For his time in Oxford see PP34-8.
    • A Q Faizi is reported to have said, during a talk to pilgrims in May-June, 1965 that "Shoghi Effendi was sent to Oxford to protect him from potential enemies, not to learn English or be educated." [SDSC273]
  5. 1967-12-11 — The Bahá'í Campus Club was inaugurated at the University of New Brunswick.
  6. 1971-08-04 — The first Bahá'í College Club of Latin America was formed at the University of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico. [BW15:215]
  7. 1990-04-09
      The establishment of the Chair for Bahá'í Studies at the University of Indore (later renamed Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya). Dr. Vishnudatta Nagar was appointed to the position. [BINS222:8; VV108; BW'86-'92pg454]

      The purpose of the Chair for Bahá'í studies embodied in the agreement was as follows:
      a. to promote Research and scholarship in Bahá'í Studies.
      b) to design and conduct courses , seminars, and studies in the field of Bahá'í studies and related subjects within an interdisciplinary context and publish results and reports of such activities.
      c) to promote inter-university linkage through seminars, exchange lectures etc with a view to promote interfaith harmony, national/ international integration and world peace. [Bahá'í Chair for Studies and Development]

    • See Message from the Universal House of Justice dated 12 February 1990.
  8. 1990-09-01
      Eighty leaders of thought from around the world gathered at Landegg Academy for the first International Dialogue on the Transition to a Global Society. The event was co-sponsored by the University of Maryland, the Vienna Academy for the Study of the Future and the Landegg Academy. [VV109]
    • For documentation on the proceedings see UNESCO Documents and Publications.
    • A second international dialogue took place in 1991 and a third in 1992. [VV109]
  9. 1992-01-02
      The first European Conference on Bahá'í Activities in Universities was held in Brno, Czechoslovakia. [BINS263:2]
    • BINS290:2 gives a second report of this event, incorrectly implying it was held in January 1993.
  10. 1996-01-15 — A Chair for Bahá'í Studies was inaugurated at the University of Lucknow. [BINS354:3]
  11. 1999-06-00 — The dedication of the first academic chair in Bahá'í studies in Israel at Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the appointment of Prof. Moshe Sharon. The position was made possible because of an anonymous donation. [Jerusalem Post, June 7, 1999, BWNS84]
  12. 2002-12-04 — University of Bari in Italy established a course on ethics and economics titled Ethics and Economy: Towards a New World Order. The University had appointed Giuseppe Robiati, a member of the Bahá'í community of Italy, as the coordinator of the course. [BWNS182]
  13. 2006-07-15 — The Bahá'í Academy in Panchgani, India, entered into a formal agreement with one of India's top-ranked universities to offer specialized training in education for moral development to its students, faculty, and staff. [BWNS470]
  14. 2012-00-00
      Stanford University's Bahá'í Collection was the first university-based collection of its kind in the United States and is a premier research resource of all topics Bahá'í related.
      • The Stanford Libraries preserves and makes accessible to all students and researchers a wealth of rare and unique archival materials and books on the Bahá'í Faith. The initial donation of the Jack H. Lee and Arden T. Lee Baha'i Collection in 2012, one of the most extensive private libraries of materials related to the Bahá'í Faith, includes thousands of books, letters, newspaper clippings, photographs and early Bahá'í publications from many countries and in various languages, from Urdu to Japanese to Greenlandic.
      • Holdings in the Bahá'í Collection also include the personal materials from the life's work of renowned educator, psychologist and philosopher Daniel C. Jordan (which include the only original 16 mm film of his ballet, Metamorphosis of the Owls, as well as the Bahá'í Library of Hourolain and Nasrollah Maghzi, an important collection of Persian rare books.
      • Donations to the physical collection or monetary contributions can be made. [Bahá'í Collection; Bahá'í Collection donations: Contributions are to specify "Stanford University Libraries and The Fund for the Jack and Arden Lee Baha’i Collection = account KBBLX"]

from the Chronology of Canada (1 result)

  1. 1967-12-11 — The Bahá'í Campus Club was inaugurated at the University of New Brunswick.
 
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