We’ve published an additional infographic on students’ charitable giving and service to our website, as well as a report on the congruence of students’ religious behaviors and beliefs. Both were produced by team member Garrett Jones.
Click the links above to download them, or check out our Resources page for all of our findings.
Team member Garrett Jones has produced a new summary of our data. Using the Fall 2017 survey of Catholic freshmen, Garrett finds that the more students are involved in religious ministries, the more likely they are to say that religion influences various aspects of their lives. No surprise there, but Garrett further finds differences between more agreement on some factors and drastic differences on others.
You can view the report below or download a PDF of the report.
Team members Samantha Heino and Garrett Jones analyzed our Fall 2017 survey data to get a general picture of who our respondents are, what their values are, and other major factors in their life.
Samantha took a look at students religious behaviors as well as sexual frequency. You can find her report here.
Garrett, meanwhile, asked the question, “How do frequent Mass attenders differ from infrequent attenders?” You can find his report here . You can also find supplemental analyses Garrett conducted here.
In the Spring 2018 semester, we set out to check back in with our freshman respondents from the Fall 2017 survey and extend the survey out to sophomores, juniors, and seniors. By the time we closed the survey, over 800 Catholic students from across the US had responded. We’ll be digging into the data to see where our freshmen are now in their religious journeys and how their lives compare to their older peers. We look forward to sharing our results with the public.
Project team member Samantha Heino has used the Fall 2017 survey data to look at the stressful life events and baseline mental health of our survey respondents. This first look connects our data to the broader research on mental health and religion, and is our first step towards understanding the experiences of Catholics students throughout their time in college.
You can read the report here.
In August and September 2017, we collected the first wave of our multi-university survey. We collected data from over 700 freshmen across 8 different schools on a variety of topics. You can see some of the initial results in our new report, available here: Fall 2017 Report
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As part of the Education and Human Development area of Bass Connections, the team participated in the 2017 EHDx event. EHDx presentations are like TED talks: they’re visual, engaging presentations designed to illustrate a problem and highlight a solution. EHDx presentations have one additional restriction: teams can only present for 5 minutes.
David Wohlever-Sanchez gave a great presentation for our team, highlighting the problems our project aimed to address, the progress we’ve made over the past year, and our future work. You can check out David’s presentation above.
Are you interested in conducting original research about the religious lives of college students while getting course credit? Consider applying to our project for the 2017/2018 academic year. Through the project, you will be trained in survey methods and data analysis, then apply them when we administer a survey to Catholic students from universities across the US.
You can apply by completing this survey.
After a summer of work designing the first survey, the team has completed the first wave of data collection of Catholic students. The team will begin analyzing the data, reporting on the results, and further testing survey items.
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