An excellent article about Claremont Lincoln University's interfaith work.

Two Schools, Three Religions (So Far)
Claremont Lincoln University is a collaboration between two established schools: the Claremont School of Theology and the Academy for Jewish Religion, California, which trains future rabbis, cantors and chaplains from all branches of Judaism, although Orthodox Jews do not accept the academy's ordination. A Muslim institution, Bayan College, is in the works: it will be part of Claremont Lincoln, established through a partnership between the Islamic Center of Southern California. Administrators say it will be one of the first schools to train Sunni and Shiite imams entirely within the United States.

It is helpful to read an article written from a secular perspective. Also, there is a helpful statement about diversity initatives in the school:

Claremont is trying to attract more conservative students, not just liberal believers who frequently sign up for interfaith efforts. In doing so, both students and faculty are confronting the fact that no religion has one set identity.

It also references the Association of Theological Schools how individual schools are responding to needs in the world:

...says (Dan) Aleshire (executive director of the Association of Theological Schools): “A lot of theological schools are perhaps ahead of some of the thinking in their respective denominations or ecclesiastical communities,” he says. “They are more ready for this kind of intellectual and pastoral engagement, where the people in the denominations are less sure about it.”

 I find it interesting that so many of our prospective students are asking questions about our Master of Divinity with a specialization in Interreligious Contexts. I appreciate students' understandings that we live in a diverse world...