Peter Felten, director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, participated in an Oct. 16-19 symposium at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The symposium explored how higher education might better address undergraduate students’ search for meaning and purpose. The gathering emerged from a longitudinal study of more than 110,000 college students and 65,000 faculty in the United States. Details on that research are available on the link to the right of this page.
The symposium’s 18 invited participants included the directors of UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute, the president of St. Bonaventure University, the dean of religious life at Stanford, and others from U.S. and Canadian higher education.
Participants plan for publications and a conference to build on the symposium’s work.