14,527 students from well over 100 schools from across the country were interviewed and provided data to the researchers at UCLA in what can only be called an extensive study.
This 7-year event focused on how students change during their college years and the role that the college itself plays in the spiritual and/or religious development. What they found may surprise some who belive that universities are designed to beat spirituality out of young people ( a thought I heard often growing up in a rather
conservative area of the U.S.) The findings, published HERE, state that spirituality
http://spirituality.ucla.edu/findings/
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