16 Ducere Est Servire: THE LEADERSHIP JOURNAL OF DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY percentage of students from each college type whose participation in a service opportunity, study abroad, or internship helped them clarify their calling. The current study provided insight into how students at Christian colleges and those at public colleges perceive their institutions' role in the development of calling. The current study examined how an institution can help foster calling in students through factors such as faculty interaction, curriculum, and extracurricular activities such as community service, internships, and study abroad. The results on student perception in the current study hold tremendous implications for higher education leaders in fostering the development of calling in students and leading to improved student career and life outcomes. Christian colleges should embrace their unique features supporting the development of calling and tout them as a competitive advantage. On the other hand, the results indicate public colleges could do more to help students develop calling by encouraging faculty to interact more with students and discuss their calling journeys with them. The presence of calling produces positive life and work outcomes for college students. Students who feel a calling toward a career exhibit greater resilience and higher satisfaction with life and work.63 Results of the current study indicate colleges play a role in students' development of calling through faculty interaction, curriculum, and extracurricular activities such as internships, service opportunities, and study abroad. More colleges have noticed the growing need for meaning and purpose in students' lives.64 As more colleges realize the importance of addressing all aspects of a student's life, calling remains an essential concept for college leaders to consider in their student development programs and curriculum because of its relationship to meaning and purpose.65
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