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...A.P.U., professors invoke religion not just in required theology courses, but in biology and English as well. Carole Lambert, an English professor and Fulbright scholar who came to A.P.U. from the University of California, Berkeley, says she introduces spirituality into classroom discussions, telling her students when reading books about war, for example, that she is a pacifist because of how she interprets the Scriptures. Professors at A.P.U. must sign a pledge affirming that they "believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative word of God" to work at the college, a requirement gladly accepted by the faculty...
...pondering spirituality, according to a study under way at the University of California, Los Angeles. More than three-quarters of college juniors told researchers they discuss religion and spirituality with friends, and 68% said they are "feeling unsettled about spiritual matters." But 62% said their professors never encourage classroom discussions of religion or spirituality. "There's a [gap] between the degree of interest in these issues that young people display and the extent to which colleges inspire students to explore them," says Alexander Astin, director of UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute...
Another contributing factor is the growth of the Latino and Asian populations, he said. Public schools that were previously 80 percent white in the 1960s are now only 60 percent white and, according to Orfield, the percentage of white students in the classroom is falling across the country...
Szabo’s colleagues attribute a large part of this success to his work in the classroom, where his fervent dedication helped his students to see the world in new and different ways...
...travel, it will have no shortage of targets. The vehicle's nine cameras have been drinking in images of the surrounding terrain and beaming them back to Earth in brilliantly sharp resolution, sometimes even in 3-D. Every day six teams of J.P.L. scientists gather in a large, classroom-like office to study the pictures on several 6-ft.-wide projection screens, smaller laptop-size screens and flat electronic slates. What they have found has intrigued and in some cases mystified them...