SPIRITUAL FORMATION REQUIREMENTS & REDUCTIONS

Each semester there are between 100 to 115 spiritual formation credits available.  Full-time students are required to have a total of 20 spiritual formation credits.  Students need to acquire 10 of their spiritual formation credits in our Tuesday, Gathering Chapels and can acquire the rest of their credits in any of our spiritual life events.   From time to time, however, academic requirements prohibit students from being able to attend enough spiritual formation events. The following is a list of circumstances that allow for a reduction in spiritual formation credits.

[Additional opportunities, such as spiritual life retreats and mission trips also allow students to earn spiritual formation credits.]

REDUCED TO 10 SPIRITUAL FORMATION CREDITS

Education Majors enrolled in practicum

Junior Year of Nursing School

Internships of 3 to 6 Hours

Students with 88 Earned Academic Hours (seniors)

 

REDUCED TO 6 SPIRITUAL FORMATION CREDITS

Senior Year of Nursing School

REDUCED TO 0 SPIRITUAL FORMATION CREDITS

Students living off campus & are 24 years old or older

Students who are student teaching

Students studying abroad

Students who are the primary caregiver to a child

Students 10 academic hours or less

All reductions are applied to students accounts within two weeks of the first day of the semester.  There is no need to contact the Spiritual Life Office to receive a reduction because all reductions are applied based on a student’s academic schedule.  If a student does not fall in one of the categories for a reduction in their spiritual formation credits, no reduction is available.

Spiritual Formation Fine Program

From time to time students will arrive at the end of the semester having not completed their spiritual formation requirements. If you find yourself in this circumstances, each student is eligible for a one-time reduction or elimination of their spiritual formation fine. 

Here are the details:

  • You can sign-up for the Spiritual Formation Fine Program in the semester you received your fine.

  • After you have signed-up for this program, your fine will be eliminated or reduced:

$25 to $150: your fine will be eliminated completely.

$175-$250: your fine will be by 1/2.

$275-$500: your fine will be reduced by 1/4.

  • In the following semester, you will receive an email with a link to a chapel service for you to watch.

  • A couple of weeks after you’ve received the link to the chapel service, one of the Student Chaplains will contact you to set-up a 45 minute to hour long meeting with you.

The following are ways students fail to complete this program:

  1. Don’t watch the chapel link

  2. Don’t respond to the Student Chaplains attempt to schedule a meeting

  3. No show the meeting with the Student Chaplain

If a student fails to complete the Spiritual Formation Fine Program, the fine will simply be reapplied at the conclusion of the semester.

Spiritual Formation Fine Program