Thursday, March 02, 2006
Spirituality on the Rise Among College Students
All quotes taken from this article posted on WWRN.org on March 01, 2006.
Spirituality is something that most college students I have met are seeking to understand. This is a time in life where students go off on their own and have the opportunity to think for themselves, especially when it comes to religious views. I think it only makes sense that students would want college to be a time when they can figure out what they really believe.
What do you think about these findings? Do you think colleges should promote spiritual self-exploration? Use the comment feature below to tell us what you think!
Where does spirituality fit into a college experience? The latest findings from a continuing national study of spirituality in US higher education, released Tuesday, reveal that faculty views on the subject diverge some from student perspectives.
While 81 percent of faculty consider themselves spiritual persons (and 64 percent call themselves "religious"), only 30 percent agree that "colleges should be concerned with facilitating students' spiritual development." Nearly half of college freshmen in an earlier survey called it "essential" or "very important" for colleges to encourage their personal expression of spirituality.
Spirituality is something that most college students I have met are seeking to understand. This is a time in life where students go off on their own and have the opportunity to think for themselves, especially when it comes to religious views. I think it only makes sense that students would want college to be a time when they can figure out what they really believe.
What do you think about these findings? Do you think colleges should promote spiritual self-exploration? Use the comment feature below to tell us what you think!
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Absolutely colleges should promote spritual exploration!!!! And not "new-age" spirituality. We (society) promote every sort of other exploration but get all timid when it comes to sprituality. If colleges want a well-educated, open-minded, independent person, they have to address ALL aspects of mind, emotions and soul. We've become so political minded, no one wants to whisper, let alone say, the word Jesus, God, Lord. All this separation of church and state. What's wrong with promoting a sense of spirituality? Why are institutions so scared of addressing religion/sprituality???? I'm all for it =)
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