Two Handed Warriors

Jossey-Bass

Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students’ Inner Lives

Cultivating the Spirit: How College Can Enhance Students’ Inner Lives

While academics are understandably proud of their “outer” accomplishments in the fields of science, medicine, technology, and commerce, colleges and universities have increasingly come to neglect the student’s “inner” development–the sphere of values and beliefs, emotional maturity, spirituality, and self-understanding, despite the importance of spiritual matters to young people in their quest to lead integrated lives.