God on the Quad Reveals Changes in America

The Institute for the Liberal Arts at Westmont presents Naomi Shaefer Riley, author of “God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America,”  who will speak at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, in Hieronymus Lounge on the upper Westmont campus.  The event is free and open to the public.

“God on the Quad” explores the influence of religious higher education in American society. Members of the Westmont community are featured in the book. Riley visited nearly 20 colleges and universities and interviewed dozens of faculty, administrators and students.

Riley, a graduate of Harvard, is the editor of the new journal, In Character, as well as an adjunct fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She is a contributing writer to the American Enterprise, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe and National Review. Her articles have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Weekly Standard, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New Republic, Commentary, Crisis, the Public Interest and First Things.  You can read more about Riley and “God on the Quad” at www.godonthequad.com.

For more information about the presentation or the Conversation on the Liberal Arts, please visit www.westmont.edu/institute, or call the Institute for the Liberal Arts at (805)565-6239. Directions to Westmont may be found at www.westmont.edu.