Helen S. Astin is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. She is co-principal investigator of a national study of college students’ spirituality funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
Email: hastin@gseis.ucla.edu

Pu-Shih Daniel Chen, Ph.D., is a research analyst for the National Survey of Student Engagement at the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. degree in Higher Education at Florida State University and research interests include moral and spiritual development of college students, assessment strategies for student learning, and the impact of digital technology on student life and higher education administration.
Email: chen@pushih.com

Pamela C. Crosby is a doctoral student in the History and Philosophy of Education Program at Florida State University. She is associate editor of the Journal of College and Character and the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy.
Email: pcc02d@fsu.edu

Jon C. Dalton, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Hardee Center for Leadership and Ethics in the Department of Leadership and Educational Policy Studies at Florida State University. He directed the Institute on College Student Values for 15 years and is editor of the on line Journal of College and Character.
Email: jdalton@admin.fsu.edu

Peter Laurence, Ed.D. (Columbia University) is Executive Director of the Education as Transformation Project at Wellesley College. He has been a consultant to various national and international interfaith organizations for the past twenty years, has served as Chair of the Board of the North American Interfaith Network, and as a member of the Assembly for the Parliament of the World’s Religions (Chicago, 1993; Capetown, 1999). Dr. Laurence is co-editor of Education as Transformation: Religious Pluralism, Spirituality, and a New Vision for Higher Education in America (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2000), and co-editor of the Peter Lang book series, Studies in Education and Spirituality (see www.peterlangusa.com). In 2005 he produced Beyond Tolerance: A Campus Religious Diversity Kit in collaboration with the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Religion and Education journal and is a member of the Collaborative on Spirituality in Higher Education (CSHE).
Email: PeterLL@concentric.net

Jennifer A. Lindholm is Associate Director for the Office of Undergraduate Evaluation and Research in the College of Letters and Science at UCLA. She is Project Director of a national study of college students’ spirituality funded by the John Templeton Foundation. Please direct all correspondence regarding this paper to: Jennifer A. Lindholm, Associate Director, Cooperative Educational Research Program, Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, 3005 Moore Hall, Mailbox 951521, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
Email: jlindhol@ucla.edu

Laura I. Rendón is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University.  Her current research focuses on access, retention and graduation of low-income, first-generation students.  She is also developing a teaching and learning model addressing intellectual, social, emotional and spiritual student development. Professor Rendón is a former fellow of the Fetzer Institute and past president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. She is co-editor of Transforming the First Year of College for Students of Color and Educating a New Majority. 
Email: lrendón@iastate.edu

Liesa Stamm is currently a Senior Associate at Rutgers University Center for Children and Childhood Studies. She has contributed to higher education for many years in a variety of capacities at the institutional, state, and national levels. As a faculty member in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Department of Anthropology and International Relations program, she participated in initiating the university’s women’s studies program and in the development of policies to support women faculty, staff, and students. Her anthropological research on women’s roles and reproductive health contributed to the emerging women’s studies field. As a senior academic affairs administrator with the Connecticut Department of Higher Education, she conducted institutional and program accreditations and participated in the development of state education policies. For many years she has been committed to bringing the expertise of higher education to improving the needs of society. In Connecticut she worked toward initiating policies and programs in public education, health care and social service delivery, and children’s welfare. Between 2000 and 2002 she directed the Civic Engagement Cluster with Arthur Chickering to promote university engagement among ten diverse institutions around the country. Her current work at Rutgers University involves designing and evaluating programmatic interventions in early childhood education and healthcare to address racial/ethnic disparities and improve the life opportunities of children in Camden, New Jersey.
Email: liesastamm@earthlink.net

Joseph L. Subbiondo is President of the California Institute of Integral Studies, a graduate and undergraduate university in San Francisco. He has been writing and presenting on religious and spiritual pluralism, especially in relationship to integrative learning. He is serving a leading role on the program committee for the Fetzer Institute’s Conference "Uncovering the Heart of Higher Education" to be held in San Francisco in February 2007 — a conference on integrative learning with a focus on religion and spirituality.
Email: jsubbiondo@ciis.edu