Changing Role of Chaplaincy in our Diverse Universities

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• Changing Role of Chaplaincy in our Diverse
  Universities
• Professor Les Ebdon
• Vice Chancellor, University of Bedfordshire

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• Diversity and Change

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• Diversity
• - Gender
• - Ethnicity
• - Religion
• - Maturity
• - Mode of study
• - Digital natives
• - Technophobes
• - Globalisation
• - Localisation

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• Change
• - religious to secular
• - residential to drop in
• - community to individuality
• - real to virtual

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• But something doesnt change!

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• Needs of students
• Need for
• - free and open debate
• - intellectual challenges
• - spiritual challenges

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• Need for tolerance and respect
• - value driven university
• - role of faith support
• - delivery in a multi-faith context