On November 29–30, 2022 the Teachers College of Columbia University, the European SPES and the Business Ethics Center of the Corvinus University of Budapest organized the first-ever Awakened Campus Global Conference in New York.
Keynote speakers and panelists of the conference included the following:
Psychology: Marjorie Woollacott (University of Oregon), David Lorimer (Galileo Commission, London), Julia Mossbridge (Northwestern University), Miguel Farias (Coventry University & University of Oxford), and Lisa Miller (Columbia University)
Education: Steven Rockefeller (Middlebury College and The Earth Charter), Robert Thurman (Columbia University), Bernadette Flanagan (Spirituality Institute for Research and Education, Dublin), Charlotte Rotterdam (Naropa University, Boulder), Ofra Mayseless (University of Haifa)
Health Sciences: Dean Radin (Institute of Noetic Sciences & California Institute of Integral Studies), Marilyn Schlitz (California Pacific Medical Center), and Tyler Norris (National Alliance on Mental Illness, Arlington)
Business Administration: Chris Laszlo (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland), Sanjoy Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Management Shillong), Surya Tahora (S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai), Hitendra Wadhwa (Columbia Business School), and Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest)
More than 200 faculty members, scholars, and students participated in the conference representing 25 countries from America, Europe, and Asia.
The Awakened Campus Global Conference aimed to create a collaborative global network of higher education institutions that integrate spirituality into their activities. The overall goal was to raise the spiritual awareness of students, faculty, and university leaders through the support of spiritual principles and practices in the student-faculty and student-advisor relationship, campus culture, mission, shared relational values, residential programs, and range of pedagogy.