This essay explores the contributions of student affairs professionals to religious and secular pluralism and interfaith cooperation in higher education. The authors propose a preliminary model of competencies necessary for student affairs professionals to engage in conversations effectively with students about issues of religion, spirituality, secularism, and belief as well as to promote campus-wide transformation for religious and secular pluralism and interfaith cooperation. P hilosophical discussions of the purpose of higher education have long connected morality and virtue to the educational process as both process and outcome (Newman, 1996; Plato, 1992). The earliest models of higher education in the United States continued to promote this intersection, albeit largely from a homogeneous and religiously exclusivist perspective (Thelin, 2004). As Enlightenment philosophies about the separate roles of religion and science and the Germanic model of university education spread, higher education was transformed (Newman, 1996; Thelin, 2004). In the United States particularly, these influences led to the emergence of college administrators specifically charged with the life of the student outside the classroom (Kuh, Shedd, & Whitt, 1987; Thelin, 2004). Despite the divorce of religion and science as partners in the learning and development of young adults in college, the philosophical foundations of student affairs work still accentuated the importance of considering the college student as a whole person (American Council on Education [ACE], 1937, 1949). Religion and spirituality were specifically mentioned as relevant components of holistic student development (ACE, 1937, 1949). As written in the first Student Personnel Point of View (SPPV) in 1937, This philosophy imposes upon educational institutions the obligation to consider the student as a whole-his intellectual capacity and achievement, his emotional make up, his physical condition, his social relationships, his vocational aptitudes and skills, his moral and religious values, his economic resources, his aesthetic appreciations. It puts emphasis, in brief, upon 1 This article is a part of the special JCC issue on interfaith cooperation edited by Eboo Patel and Cassie Meyer. 2 On behalf of the ACPA Commission for Spirituality, Faith, Religion, and Meaning.