"Spirituality" in Higher Education

Titusonenine has called our attention to an interesting study of college and university faculty. It was conducted by researchers at UCLA, and has found that substantial numbers of instructors in institutions of higher learning in the U.S. consider themselves "spiritual." Unfortunately, only a fairly small minority of these "spiritual" teachers believe that colleges should encourage the spiritual development of their students. (Teachers of humanities are predictably among most prone to support fostering the spiritual devlopment in their students, while natural scientists are least likely to do so.) Of course, these "spiritual" intellectuals may themselves have little or nothing to do with organized religion in their own lives. Do please check out the entire story here.