Spiritual

5 = very satisfied; 4 = satisfied; 3 = neutral/no opinion; 2 = not satisfied; 1 = very dissatisfied
 
 

	5	4	3	2	1
Overall spiritual atmosphere 1996-97 ave. = 4.36, std. dev. = .80  1997-98 ave. = 4.11, std. dev. = .77 1998-99 ave. = 4.22, std. dev. = .66 1999-00 ave. = 4.09, std. dev. = .75	51% 28% 33% 27%	40%  58% 57% 61%	04%  09% 08% 09%	05%  03% 02% 02%	00%  01% 00% 01%
Opportunity for personal character development and spiritual growth 1996-97 ave. = 4.41, std. dev. = .68 1997-98 ave. = 4.12, std. dev. = .82 1998-99 ave. = 4.29, std. dev. = .77 1999-00 ave. = 4.17, std. dev. = .69	51%  30% 42% 30%	40%  55% 49% 61%	08%  09% 06% 06%	01%  03% 02% 03%	00%  02% 01% 00%

Comments: (representative comments)

•  My daughter has become more legalistic, but maybe she's always been that way and I just didn't see it.
•  Donít preach to us as much; Clew weeks are excellent
• We are grateful to God for Houghton.
•  Chapels were wonderful for spiritual nourishment.
•  More contemporary would be nice
•  Home sweet home is great
•  Chapel should have more student participation
•  The Bible studies are great
•  Clue services were good but I was disappointed with chapel
•  It would have been good to have a buddy system, my daughter managed to get with the

wrong crowd
•  Lots of people separated from reality
•  Spiritual atmosphere was positive and we witnessed growth in our daughter's spiritual life.
•  We don't understand why students must attend 2/3 of chapels and faculty do not.  We would be a true community if all had to attend 2/3.  Content of chapels could be spiritually higher than they are presently.
• Very satisfied.  He says it's awesome!
•  There's a spiritual lazyness at houghton I've noticed.  It seems that if you go to a Christian college your spiritual life will automatically grow.  But you do have a lot of opportunities.
•  My daughter really appreciated the Spiritual Life Emphasis weeks.