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Professionals registered with the Office of the Chaplain as religious life representatives are entitled to the following privileges:
• Use of public campus facilities to meet with their constituencies (as defined above), subject to ordinary college restrictions and availability.
• Use of the Campus Ministries office space located in the Campus Center. At the beginning of each academic year, the use of this space shall be scheduled for members of the chaplaincy staff, Campus Ministers/Clergy, and Para- Church Staff Workers. The College Chaplain shall have final discretion over the scheduling of the Campus Ministries office space.
• Announcement through Chaplain’s Office publications and the college’s Religious Life web page of their professional activity on campus.
• Participation in activities related to campus religious life that take place annually during First-year Student Orientation.
• Participation in other aspects of the college’s life as invited by the College Chaplain or other college officials.
Religious Life Council
The Religious Life Council is a representative body in which member organizations may inform one another of planned activities and address issues of concern regarding religious life on campus. The council also provides a forum for the Office of the Chaplain to disseminate information to the various religious life constituencies. The council is chaired by the College Chaplain. Its membership includes the chaplaincy staff, the student leader(s) of each registered religious organization, the faculty/staff advisor of each of these groups, and registered Campus Ministers/Clergy or Para-Church Staff Workers. Although not a policy-making body, the Religious Life Council may forward suggestions regarding changes to college policies and standards related to religious life to the CCRL for consideration in its capacity as an advisory body to the College President, who has authority to approve such changes.
Standards for Organizations and Individuals
1. All student religious groups shall follow the College Union’s Office of Student Activities procedures to be registered student organizations, and they shall abide by established college policies regarding the operation of student organizations.
2. All student religious organizations shall have an official advisor who is a member of the Davidson College faculty or staff. This advisor is in addition to any Campus Minister/Clergy or Para-Church Staff Worker who works with the student organization.
3. The student leaders and staff/faculty advisors of all student religious groups shall participate regularly in scheduled meetings of the Religious Life Council.
4. All Campus Ministers/Clergy and Para-Church Staff Workers (religious life “representatives” of ecclesiastical or non- denominational religious agencies) shall register with the Office of the Chaplain for the privilege of working on the Davidson College campus. They shall participate regularly in scheduled meetings of the Religious Life Council. The College Chaplain shall serve as the primary college liaison for all such representatives in conducting the exercise of their professional duties on the campus. Davidson College reserves the right to rescind at any time the privilege of a religious life representative to work on the campus.
5. Religious groups and representatives shall recognize that Davidson College seeks to promote a campus atmosphere in which a diversity of religious faiths and expressions of spiritual life are respected and productively engaged.
6. Religious groups and representatives shall respect the right of students to maintain privacy, to accept, question or reject religious faith, and to affiliate with, decline to affiliate with, or disaffiliate themselves from any religious organization on campus.
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