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college life issues
Bachelor Degree: Passport to Privilege?
If you talk to college-age people about obtaining a bachelor’s degree, you’ll find their aspirations to be off the charts as to what that means for them. Our culture preaches the hope of an education as the passport to a privileged life. And college-age people believe it hook, line, and sinker. That is, until a few months after graduating.
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God and Majors
Article about how religious students compare to non-religious students. Interesting findings...
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Homosexuality - a personal journey
This is a great insight into the heart and mind of someone who has struggled for years, but in college began to be honest about his struggle...
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In Touch With Jesus
This is an article written by Time Magazine where there are some interesting insights into why twenty-somethings are no longer interested in church.
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Spiritual Struggles of College Students
An article written by a professor at North Carolina State University. This is research oriented, but very insightful into the spirituality of college age people!
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Spirituality in Higher Education:
A National Study of College Students’ Search for Meaning and Purpose done by UCLA. What is the level and intensity of spiritual experiences among today’s college students? How are spiritual searching and behavior changing on campus? And what does this mean for higher education institutions and students?
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Stages of Development
This article, although written in 1956, has shaped the way we view adolescents in a major way. It has some great insights into the development of college age people.
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When the Pomp and Circumstance Fades
Interesting study on some causes of drop off of high school grads out of the local church, and some insights into what helps develop healthier, more mature believers through the college years.
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Why 25 is New 15
Increasingly, young people are not making it out on their own in the way they used to in generations past. Here is a simple statistic: The average [U.S.] college senior is in touch with their parents more than 13 times a week. And it's not because they have such close relationships. It's because they're getting help - from picking courses to editing papers to parents reminding them of deadlines.
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