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Peer conversations shape student spiritual development.

Women in Higher Education

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As an undergraduate, did you discuss religion and spirituality with your peers? How often do you talk with students about spirituality today? Student development involves spirit along with mind, body and emotion but few schools do much to help.

Peer conversations among students can play an important role in their spiritual development, said Deborah Cady, Newman Catholic Ministry Director at Wellesley College MA, an independent women's college with a religiously diverse student body. She spoke at the NASPA 2006 conference about her dissertation research toward her PhD in higher education administration at Boston College MA. It was one of eight NASPA presentations ...

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