Building Capacity for Successful Lives
At Utah State University, our vision is to empower all people to lead successful lives of involvement, innovation, and impact. The Interfaith Initiative embodies this commitment by building capacity among our students to listen deeply, to cultivate empathy, to effectively navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, and to appreciatively engage with all who orient around religion and spirituality differently in service to a common good.
One of the benefits in building capacity among our students to be able to engage appreciatively across religious differences is that the skills they learn through the Interfaith Initiative are among the top skills employers look for and among the most marketable skills to cultivate. Whether training to be Engineers or Middle School teachers, Lawyers or CEO’s, medical professionals or financial planners, software developers or Social Workers, the skills of active listening, social perceptiveness, coordination, and negotiation that are cultivated by the work of the Interfaith Initiative are key employability skills that cut across all professions and that set our students apart! (Check out Utah Wage and Occupational Openings Data and also Indeed's Top 11 Skills Employers Look for in Job Candidates
for more)!
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