TAILIEUCHUNG - Cultivating the Spirit

This book is based on a seven - year study very generously supported by the John Templeton Foundation. We are especially grateful to Arthur Schwartz, formerly executive vice president at the foundation, who approached us eight years ago with the idea of undertaking this national study of students ’ search for meaning and purpose. Thank you, Arthur, for your enormous support and early guidance in conceptualizing the study and for challenging us to think critically, creatively, and expansively. Kimon Sargeant, vice president of human sciences, has served as the foundation ’ s project offi cer over the past four years. We appreciate his trust in us and his willingness to. | Cultivating the Spirit HOW COLLEGE GAN ENHANCE STUDENTS INNER LIVES Alexander w. Astin Helen Jennifer A. Lindholm This book challenges us to look where we have been reluctant to gaze and to engage with the most central features of student thoughts and commitments. I can only hope that the publication of this work will encourage many others to pursue these questions. We owe the distinguished authors our deep gratitude. Lee S. Shulman president emeritus The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus Stanford University This scholarly work anchored in ground breaking research is MUST reading for administrators faculty members and student development professionals who believe that higher education should reach beyond professional and vocational preparation. Arthur W. Chickering special assistant to the president Goddard College author Education and Identity and coauthor Encouraging Authenticity and Spirituality in Higher Education Cultivating the Spirit offers a rich basis for the reframing of the curriculum and college life. The book is full of surprises even for the most knowledgeable of faculty and deans. A landmark book Claire Gaudiani former president Connecticut College and author Generosity Unbound and The Greater Good This book should be read by educators parents students policy-makers funding agencies everywhere and by everyone interested in designing education in a more coherent connected and less fragmented way. The research and findings here will guide the future of higher education to create more compassionate caring and complete human beings to be leaders for the multidimensional challenges of the 21st century. David Scott former chancellor University of Massachusetts Amherst Cultivating the Spirit is destined to become a classic. It is the kind of groundbreaking and definitive research we have come to expect from the Astins and their colleagues and it should be mandatory reading

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