How can Spiritual Foundations students keep in contact with faculty members and with each other after the residential session is over?
All students receive a directory with pictures, address, phone numbers, and e- mail addresses of the faculty members and the students who attended the residential session. In addition, the Wilmette Institute has set up an e-mail listserver (“GLOBAL”) for the Spiritual Foundations students so that students with e-mail accounts can exchange news and plan teaching events over the internet. Telephone conference calls provide another forum for group interaction during the home-study months. Held once a month for about an hour, these conference calls allow a professor to be on the line with six students at one time for a small discussion section. These sessions help to consolidate feelings of community begun in the residential session.
