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Jewelnel Davis |
University Chaplain Jewelnel Davis is one of several chaplains featured in this month's Ebony magazine, in an article about the unprecedented numbers of African-Americans serving as religious leaders on college campuses around the country. The article reports that of the eight Ivy League schools, five now have black chaplains: Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale.
The article quotes Davis as saying that one of the great strengths of the African-American clergy is "their experience working with a variety of groups."
Davis, who has been Columbia's chaplain and director of its Earl Hall Center since 1996, has about 17 different religious advisors who report to her -- including spiritual leaders from the Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist traditions. | 
