Can students’ moral development be improved?

In a Chronicle of Higher Education article, Peter Schmidt writes that:

Several studies presented…at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference…suggest that the souls of America's youth will not be saved on its college campuses anytime soon. Although many colleges have committed themselves to promoting the moral and ethical development of their students, they generally have not proven very good at the task, their efforts being undermined by their own cultures and by a failure to adopt effective approaches.

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