Students and Spirituality

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In this Senior Faculty Feminist Seminar organized by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Professor Helen S. Astin discusses her new book, "Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students' Inner Lives," which presents the results of a seven-year study that examined the role that college plays in facilitating the development of students' spiritual qualities. Findings are organized around ten spiritual and religious measures: Equanimity, Spiritual Quest, Ethic of Caring, Charitable Involvement, Ecumenical Worldview, Religious Commitment, Religious Engagement, Religious/Social Conservatism, Religious Skepticism, and Religious Struggle. Christine A. LIttleton, Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development, is the respondent. Helen S. Astin is a Professor Emeritus in Department of Education at UCLA and Associate Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. She served as the associate provost of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA from 1983 to 1987, and from 1990 to 1992 as interim director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Astin's research and writings have focused on issues of gender and education and on leadership. She is the author, with Carole Leland, of Women of Influence, Women of Vision: A Cross-Generational Study of Leaders and Social Change.  Christine A. Littleton is Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development. A professor of law and women's studies, she has taught at UCLA since 1983. She is the founding chair of

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