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Saturday, August 9. 2008

Religion in college students

A re-post from the archives

Before we hear about the depressed and suicidal freshman entering class of 2005 in the New York Post, this report examines and collates the spiritual and religious patterns exhibited by the college freshman class of 2004.  It reveals kids with a lot more going on than mere existential angst. Yet, they still need to be told that the journey they are on will never come to a finish, they will never be sure that this is "it" and in the end, it will not have been how they spent their time while on the journey nor who they befriended or where they sought solace. In the end, no matter what their age, they will always just remain "babes in the woods."  A quote:
"How often do we encounter a research program that addresses a set of questions so central, so pivotal, so critical, and in retrospect, so obvious, that we wonder aloud why no one thought to ask these questions before?”
—Lee S. Shulman, President The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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