“…A group of sociologists studying emerging adults said it well, "the most important payoffs of college education do not concern career promotions and higher salaries" (Smith et al, 2011: 101). Rather than an instrumental view of education, we believe it is also about establishing meaningful relationships (Sriram et al, 2020), developing the "whole person" (American Council on Education, 1937), discovering a sense of vocation (e.g., Clydesdale, 2016;Wadell and Pinches, 2021) or purpose (e.g., Glanzer et al, 2017b), and the cultivation of an educated citizenry (Bok, 2006) to name a few. These are all outcomes that are being measured in higher education scholarship, but far too often these outcomes are neglected in the student success conversations on Christian campuses.…”