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The Purposeful Graduate

Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation

By: Tim Clydesdale

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The Purposeful Graduate

Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation

By: Tim Clydesdale

American higher education is more expensive than ever and the rewards seem to be diminishing daily. Sociologist Tim Clydesdale s new book, however, offers some rare good news: when colleges and universities meaningfully engage their organizational histories to launch sustained conversations with students about questions of purpose, the result is a rise in overall campus engagement and recalibration of post-college trajectories that set graduates on journeys of significance and impact. The book is based on a study of programs launched at 88 colleges and universities that invited students, faculty, staff, and administrators to incorporate questions of meaning and purpose into the undergraduate experience. The results were so positive that Clydesdale came away from the study arguing that every campus (religious or not) should engage students in a broad conversation about what it means to live an examined life. This conversation needs to be creative, intentional, systematic, and wide-ranging, he says, because for too long this core liberal educational task has been relegated to the margins, and its attendant religious or spiritual discourse banished from classrooms and quads, to the detriment of higher education s virtually universal mission: graduates marked by thoughtfulness, productivity, and engaged citizenship.

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The Twentysomething Soul

Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults

By: Timothy Thomas Clydesdale,Kathleen Garces-Foley

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Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults

By: Timothy Thomas Clydesdale,Kathleen Garces-Foley

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with devout believers, resolute skeptics, and everyone in between, The Twentysomething Soul tells an optimistic story about the lives of today's young adults.

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The First Year Out

Understanding American Teens after High School

By: Tim Clydesdale

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The First Year Out

Understanding American Teens after High School

By: Tim Clydesdale

Wild parties, late nights, and lots of sex, drugs, and alcohol. Many assume these are the things that define an American teenager’s first year after high school. But the reality is really quite different. As Tim Clydesdale reports in The First Year Out, teenagers generally manage the increased responsibilities of everyday life immediately after graduation effectively. But, like many good things, this comes at a cost. Tracking the daily lives of fifty young people making the transition to life after high school, Clydesdale reveals how teens settle into manageable patterns of substance use and sexual activity; how they meet the requirements of postsecondary education; and how they cope with new financial expectations. Most of them, we learn, handle the changes well because they make a priority of everyday life. But Clydesdale finds that teens also stow away their identities—religious, racial, political, or otherwise—during this period in exchange for acceptance into mainstream culture. This results in the absence of a long-range purpose for their lives and imposes limits on their desire to understand national politics and global issues, sometimes even affecting the ability to reconstruct their lives when tragedies occur. The First Year Out is an invaluable resource for anyone caught up in the storm and stress of working with these young adults.

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0226110672

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The Purposeful Graduate

Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation

By: Tim Clydesdale

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Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation

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The Twentysomething Soul

Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults

By: Timothy Thomas Clydesdale,Kathleen Garces-Foley

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Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults

By: Timothy Thomas Clydesdale,Kathleen Garces-Foley

Drawing from hundreds of interviews with devout believers, resolute skeptics, and everyone in between, The Twentysomething Soul tells an optimistic story about the lives of today's young adults.

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The Purposeful Graduate

The Purposeful Graduate

The Twentysomething Soul

The Twentysomething Soul

The First Year Out

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The Purposeful Graduate

The Purposeful Graduate

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The Twentysomething Soul

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