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Campuses can respond to increased student spirituality.
College students are exploring questions of meaning and value, asking, "What do I believe?" Schools that help them develop mind and body sometimes balk at spirit, afraid they'll violate separation of church and state.
At the 2006 meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), Dr. Margaret Jablonski and Dr. Jon Dalton described higher education's response to the upswing in student spiritual interests.
Jablonski is vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Dalton, a former NASPA president, is associate professor in education leadership at Florida State University in Tallahassee, director of its Institute on College Student Values and editor of the journal College and Character.
"It is our role to help students explore their spiritual development during college," Jablonski told WIHE. Large public universities and community colleges face the same need as private and faith-based schools; they just have to approach it differently.
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Spiritual quest
After a generation stereotyped as self-centered and materialistic, more than three quarters of freshmen in a recent Higher Education Research Institute study said they're looking for meaning and purpose (WIHE October 2005).
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