Thursday, April 14, 2005

Results of the second phase in an ongoing major study of the spiritual lives of college students was released Wednesday, April 13 by a research center at UCLA. The study is a groundbreaking attempt to gain insight into the spiritual lives and concerns of students and improve how faculties and administrators at US colleges and universities address this part of their students’ lives.

The study, named The Spiritual Life of College Students, was conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI), a research center of higher education in the United States. HERI is based in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

HERI also produces a widely-cited annual Survey of Entering Freshman through its Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) program.

Contents

  • 1 Study methodology
  • 2 Goals of the research
  • 3 Resulting data
    • 3.1 Affiliations
    • 3.2 Beliefs
    • 3.3 Lifestyles
    • 3.4 Politics
    • 3.5 Religious tolerance
    • 3.6 Confidence Levels
    • 3.7 Expectations
  • 4 Sources