Campus Practice in Support of Spirituality, Faith, Religion, and Life Purpose: What Has Been Accomplished and Where Do We Go Next?

A mere 13 years ago, while introducing an issue of New Directions for Student Services on the topic of student spirituality, Jablonski (2001) stated that the reason for publishing the issue was that “student affairs and student affairs preparation programs have been reluctant to address spirituality” (p. 1). In fact, from the 1990s through the turn of the century, it was quite common for student affairs educators to lament that a focus on spirituality and spiritual development was lacking in undergraduate education (Laurence, 1999; Love & Talbot, 1999).