Malone University to host the 2024 Friends Association for Higher Education Conference.
The annual Friends Association for Higher Education (FAHE) Conference will be held at Malone University June 3 – June 6, 2024. The theme for the 2024 conference is “Valiant for the Truth,” taken from a speech by George Fox (1624-1691), one of the co-founders of the Religious Society of Friends.
The conference will host three plenary speakers at 7:00 pm in the Stewart Room of the Randall Campus Center (the “Barn”). The plenary sessions are open to the public and donations are appreciated.
“This annual conference will bring together scholars from non-Friends institutions and scholars teaching at Quaker institutions affiliated with Friends United Meeting, Friends General Conference, New Association of Friends, and Evangelical Friends Church International, as well as independent Friends institutions of higher learning,” said Jacalynn Stuckey, Ph.D., professor of history. “Malone is one of seventeen member institutions in FAHE, and one of the few Quaker international or national organizations that includes all branches of Friends. It is an honor to host this esteemed association of Quaker scholars.”
Plenary sessions will feature:
June 3: Jeffrey Dudiak, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at The King’s University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
June 4: Thomas Hamm, Ph.D., emeritus professor of history and Quaker Scholar in Residence at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. At the end of this session, conference attendees will observe the 400th anniversary of George Fox’s birth.
June 5: Carole Spencer, Ph.D., (retired) associate professor of theology from Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana and Portland Seminary and George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. At the end of this session, Rachel and the Peacemakers, featuring three former or retired professors – Rachel Nunez of Hudson, Ohio; Malcolm Gold of Duncannon, Pennsylvania; and Steve Jensen of Canton – will perform.
In addition to the plenary sessions, a variety of seminars and presentations will be held on campus throughout the conference. As is customary during each conference, Malone President Gregory Miller will also be hosting an online panel with presidents of Quaker colleges and universities from across the nation.
To register, visit: https://quakerfahe.com/2024/04/18/fahe-conference-2024-registration/
About the FAHE:
A group of classroom teachers from Quaker-related colleges met at Quaker Hill, Richmond, Indiana in October 1977 to discuss the organization of a support agency for higher education similar to the Friends Council on Education (which has been supporting Quaker-related elementary and secondary schools for half a century).
Inspired by the words of Helen Hole, who states in her book, Things Civil and Useful (1978), that “perhaps the time has come to form a broad national committee which can provide support and link with tradition in the Quaker educational world, ” they met again at Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1978 and at the University of Notre Dame in 1979 while representing the Religious Society of Friends at the National Congress of Church Related Colleges and Universities.
In June 1980, a nationwide group of Friends educators joined with Friends meeting leaders on the campus of Wilmington College to found the Friends Association for Higher Education.
FAHE conferences have been held annually since 1981 and have been hosted by the following colleges and universities: Bryn Mawr, Earlham, Earlham School of Religion, Guilford, Haverford, Swarthmore, Whittier and Wilmington Colleges; Friends, George Fox, Malone and William Penn Universities, and two study centers, Pendle Hill and Woodbrooke. Malone University last hosted the conference in 2013.
(Taken from: https://quakerfahe.com/about/history/ )