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Fifty years later the College remained small with a continuing, but less embracive, commitment to the liberal arts; however, the student body included large numbers of young adults who professed religions other than Christianity and came from backgrounds other than European.  \nWithin this context, this article focuses on the impact of the Glendon College experience on students’ religious identification and participation in religious services. Overall, I find that in the mid-sixties the College experience contributed to changes in the religious identification of students. By contrast, a half-century later, students’ post-secondary experiences were of little consequence for religiosity. One possible explanation for differences in the College effect is that because of the current racial and religious diversity of Toronto, students are more likely than in the past to confront their religious identities in high school. Keywords: liberal arts, religiosity, change, university experience  \nRésumé  \nEn 1963, le collège Glendon de l’Université York, qui est située à Toronto, au Canada, admettait essentiellement des étudiants chrétiens d’origine européenne dans son petit programme d’arts libéraux. Cinquante ans plus tard, le collège était toujours de taille modeste, avec un engagement continu, bien que moins vaste, à l’égard des arts libéraux. Cependant, le corps étudiant comprenait de nombreux jeunes adultes pratiquant une religion autre que chrétienne et issus d’horizons autres qu’européens.  \nDans ce contexte, cet article se penche sur le rôle de l’expérience au collège Glendon dans l’identification religieuse des étudiants et leur participation aux offices religieux. De manière générale, je constate qu’au milieu des années soixante, l’expérience vécue au collège avait un effet transformateur sur l’identification religieuse des étudiants. Par contraste, undemi-siècle plus tard, l’expérience d’études postsecondaires des étudiants avait peu de conséquences sur leur pratique religieuse. Une explication possible de cette différence relativement à l’effet du Collège réside dans la diversité raciale et religieuse que l’on observe actuellement à Toronto, qui fait en sorte que les étudiants sont plus susceptibles que par le passé de s’interroger sur leur identité religieuse dès l’école secondaire.  \nMots-clés : arts libéraux, religiosité, changement, expérience universitaire  \nIntroduction  \nIn 1961, 95% of Torontonians were of European origin. Fifty two percent (52%) were Protestant (Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1961a, pp. 87-26; 1961b, pp. 83-30) . By 2011 the figures were 51% and 12%, respectively (City of Toronto, 2013) . In the intervening years, Toronto had become one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse cities in the world. While the nature of Toronto  \nhad been radically transformed, one of its educational institutions, Glendon College, York University, remained a small liberal arts college.  \nIn this article I will focus on the student cohorts entering Glendon in 1963 and 2013 and examine the extent to which the college experience affected their religiosity. I will argue that in both eras a minority of graduates rejected the religious identification of their parents. Much of the change for the cohort of 1963 can be attributed to  \nCanadian Journal of Higher Education | Revue canadienne d’enseignement supérieur 50:2 (2020)   \nstudents’ experiences at Glendon; however, changes in religious identification in the 2013 cohort predated college entry. One possible explanation for these differences is that Toronto is now more racially and religiously diverse than in the past. As a result, it is possible that some current students confront—and change—their religious identities prior to university.  \nThis st","cbCaikJDPRxgHbhn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikJDPRxgHbhn","pdf",184391,17,"English","# Abstract\n# Résumé\n# Introduction\n# The Approach","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article examines how Glendon College’s experience affected students’ religious identification and their participation in religious services.\"},{\"question\":\"How did the college experience differ between the 1963 and 2013 cohorts?\",\"answer\":\"The 1963 cohort shows college-related changes in religious identification, while the 2013 cohort’s post-secondary experiences had little consequence for religiosity.\"},{\"question\":\"What explanation is offered for the difference across time?\",\"answer\":\"Toronto’s increasing racial and religious diversity may lead students to confront and potentially change their religious identities before entering university, unlike in the past.\"}]","Keeping the Faith - The University Experience and Apostasy | PDF",1792083890,43]