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A real lack of school spirit.


A UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University)
UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
 study that surveyed 3,680 college students at 46 schools found that while 77 percent say that they pray and 71 percent say that they find religion to be helpful, 62 percent say that their professors never encourage religious or spiritual discussion and 53 percent say the classroom has no effect on their beliefs.

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 completely understandable ... to keep religion and academic study separate," UCLA's Alexander W. Astin, co-author co·au·thor or co-au·thor  
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. "But spirituality is a much more generic concept that, for many students, doesn't necessarily mean religion, and all students are on some kind of spiritual development path. We can do a lot more to assist them."
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Title Annotation:signs of the times
Author:Gary, Grennan
Publication:U.S. Catholic
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Feb 1, 2004
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