Fall For Books

I attended the fall for the book presentation by higher education experts Alexander and Helen Astin on Wednesday 21, at the Dewberry Hall South, at the Johnson Center. Before authors were introduced to us by the moderator and she talked about some of the achievements and accomplishments by Alexander and Helen Astin.   Helen Astin began the presentation by introducing us (the audience) to the book Cultivating The Spirit. How College Can Enhance Student Inner Lives. I basically just went because I had to do it for the class but as Mrs. Helen began talking about how they came up with the idea of researching into how students spirituality develop or  as they attend college, I got interested in the matter they were presenting and not just listening to write a blog on it. She talked about how it is for students to live authentic lives by exploring relationships between religiousness and spirituality. Also by exploring services like the Yoga classes, study abroad programs, student organizations and interracial interactions that colleges provide in order to help students relax. And how they came about their stat were by taking a survey of 3700 freshmen coming into college and after 3 years which was their junior year, they went back to some of the students and the results they received was what they used in writing the book. Moreover, they used the concepts of commitments, engagements, struggles, ethics and other measures to determine the outcomes of their results. In all I found this to be very interesting since I am a student myself and how a research like this could relate to me.

Daniel Abrokwah

09/23/1990