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Secular Students National Meeting – February

Feb 05, 2026 4:00PM—5:00PM

Monthly Secular Student Meetings are great opportunities to build community with other secular students from across the country. You’ll develop leadership skills, share ideas, connect and coordinate with peers, and engage with leaders from the broader secular movement. We’ll also cover updates on SSA resources and upcoming events. These meetings are open to current, prospective,…

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The Sound of Meaning: Black Culture, Creativity, and Humanism

Feb 04, 2026 4:00PM—5:00PM

How do people create meaning, ethics, and purpose in a world without easy answers—or divine guarantees? What role do creativity, culture, and lived experience play in how people understand themselves and one another? Join the Secular Student Alliance for a conversation with Anthony B. Pinn, scholar of religion, humanism, and African American religious thought, exploring…

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From Inclusion to Belonging Creating Space for Marginalized Students

Jan 29, 2026 4:00PM—5:00PM

This training explores how SSA chapters can intentionally create a welcoming culture for a wide range of students, including students who may feel isolated or underrepresented on campus. It will introduce flexible ways to listen, build trust, reduce barriers to participation, and thoughtfully support affinity based space when students request it, while keeping the chapter…

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Exposing and Mitigating Online Mass Manipulation

Jan 23, 2026 10:00AM—11:00AM

In February 2024, unusual Facebook adverts in the UK triggered computational social scientist and open-source intelligence investigator Sohan Dsouza’s suspicions. He reached out to counter-disinformation researcher Dr. Marc Owen Jones, collaborating with him on a deep investigation into what turned out to be an immense covert influence operation. They discovered that the operation, which ran for months…

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Run a Stronger SSA Chapter with Google Workspace

Jan 22, 2026 4:00PM—5:00PM

This training focuses on simple ways SSA chapter leaders can use common Google tools to stay organized, communicate clearly, and reduce last minute stress. Participants will explore practical approaches for shared planning, event coordination, documenting decisions, and keeping chapter knowledge from getting lost when leadership changes.

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Secular Students National Meeting – January Kickoff!

Jan 15, 2026 4:00PM—5:00PM

Secular Student meetings are great opportunities to build community with other secular students from across the country. This kickoff session is the biggest meeting of the semester, setting the stage for all our recurring meetups ahead. You’ll develop leadership skills, share ideas, connect and coordinate with peers, and engage with leaders from the broader secular…

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Secular Students National Meeting – December

Dec 04, 2025 4:00PM—5:00PM

End the semester right with our monthly National Secular Leadership Meeting is a great opportunity to build community with other secular students from across the country. At these meetings, you will develop your leadership skills, connect and coordinate with other secular students, engage with leaders from the secular community and members of our speakers’ bureau,…

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Secular Students National Meeting – November

Nov 06, 2025 4:00PM—5:00PM

Kick off November right with our monthly National Secular Leadership Meeting is a great opportunity to build community with other secular students from across the country. At these meetings, you will develop your leadership skills, connect and coordinate with other secular students, engage with leaders from the secular community and members of our speakers’ bureau,…

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Science in a Secular Humanist Society

Nov 05, 2025 4:00PM—5:00PM

The development of the modern sciences often went together with a secular spirit of inquiry, reflecting growing relationships between humanist thought and empirical approaches to investigating the world. In the present, though, there are still challenges to face in pursuit of humanist aspirations to use science to serve the good of people and the planet.…

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The New Secular Boom? Religion, Politics, and the Backfire Effect

Oct 15, 2025 4:00PM—5:00PM

The IRS recently confirmed it will not investigate preachers who endorse political candidates from the pulpit—a major development in the Christian Right’s push to dismantle the wall between church and state. While intended to strengthen Christianity’s influence, this move may accelerate the very trend they hope to reverse: the steady growth of secularism in America.…

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