A UCLA Higher Education Research Institute study
than getting a job. It is a unique four-year experience
by Henderson and Railsback revealed that at the
that will make more of an impact than any other
end of their college career, 52% of all students who
period in a student’s life. As foundational as the
identified themselves as “born-again” and attended
high school years have been, the college years will
a public university will no longer identify themselves
be even more significant in shaping who the
as born-again or will not have attended any kind of
person will be.
religious service in the past year. Believe it or not, the percentages for students who attend other secular institutions (including those that are “church-affiliated,” but not specifically faith-based) are even higher. I don’t want to scare someone into choosing a Christian college. But I think it is important to go
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