Author Christine Whelan talks Generation WTF with Frank Pastore on his hit radio show. Listen to the full interview by clicking the links below:
Christine Whelan’s interview on The Frank Pastore Show: Part 1
Christine Whelan’s interview on The Frank Pastore Show: Part 2
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Helping First-Year Students Help Themselves
First-year college students have always arrived on campus full of anxieties: Will I be able to keep up academically? Will I get along with my roommates? Will it be fun? Recently, however, an increasing number feel unable to cope with the emotional demands of college life, and transitional worries have morphed into longer-term fears: Why isn’t life falling into place for me?
According to a yearly national survey of more than 200,000 first-year students conducted by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles, college freshmen are increasingly “overwhelmed,” rating their emotional health at the lowest levels in the 25 years the question has been asked. Such is the latest problem dropped at the offices of higher-education administrators and professors nationwide: Young adults raised with a single-minded focus on gaining admission to college now need help translating that focus into ways to thrive on campus and beyond.
To read the full article, click here.
To learn more about Dr. Whelan and her new publication, Generation WTF, click here.
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On Wednesday, March 9th, Christine Whelan appeared on CBS Up to the Minute:
Christine Whelan, PhD, author of “Generation WTF” discusses her book which teaches students basic, practical life skills such as being thrifty and avoiding procrastination.
To view the video, click here.
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Watch Christine Whelan on CBS-TV’s, Up to the Minute, airing early Wednesday morning (March 9) at various times throughout the country.
Christine B. Whelan, PhD, recent author of Generation WTF, is a professor, author, and journalist. She is a visiting assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford for her research on the self-help industry. Dr. Whelan is the author of Marry Smart: The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to True Love and Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women. She has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among others. She writes a bi-weekly relationship advice column for BustedHalo, a young adult website. She has appeared live on television and radio programs across the nation.
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According to a recent UCLA survey, incoming college students rate emotional health at record low. Author of Generation WTF, Christine Whelan, comments on the survey and offers advice for students on how to cope:
If you’re always scrambling to do assignments at the last minute, create a time journal to figure out where your time goes. Many Generation WTFers who tracked their time for a week were amazed by how much time they spent online, watching TV and other supposedly “fun” stuff that actually made them more stressed out in the end because the work just kept piling up. We’ll have a time journal up on this site soon, but in the meantime, check out Laura Vanderkam’s terrific book 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think to download your own customizable time journal and get tracking! Once you see where your time goes, you can adjust your habits to get your work done more efficiently and leave yourself time for time the kind of fun that makes you happiest.
For more tips on how to cope or to read Whelan’s entire response, click here.
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The cat is out of the bag! Publisher’s Weekly encourages readers to check out Generation WTF:
the book involves a great deal of reader participation, making this solid book a tangible experience as well as an informative and inspirational one.
Based on her own authoritative research, the latest research in the field, and the students feedback she’s received from the popular course that she now teaches at University of Pittsburgh, Christine B. Whelan has developed Generation WTF: The Guide to a Wise, Tenacious, and Fearless You. The book is a “crash-course” guide to the classic, cornerstone teachings of the self-help genre, remixed for a new generation.
For more information on Generation WTF by Christine Whelan, click here. Find out if this book is right for you or for someone you know!
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Adam Bellow came down to the Templeton Foundation offices a few months ago to speak about New Threats to Freedom. Some footage of that event is now available and we’ve posted it to our New Threats to Freedom website. In this first one, Adam is talking about how we can be free.
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Want a sneak peak at our Fall publishing list? Head over to our website to download our full catalog. We’ve got a great list of titles coming up, including our latest Templeton Science & Religion Series publication by Javier Leach.
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Thomas Jay Oord, professor, author, and theologian, recently wrote an interesting blog post on John Polkinghorne.
John Polkinghorne is both a scientist and a priest. He has written numerous publications on the topic of science and theology. In 1997, Polkinghorne was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for distinguished service to science, religion, learning, and medical ethics. In 2002, he was awarded the Templeton Prize.
This October, Polkinghorne will celebrate his 80th birthday. Oord hopes to present Polkinghorne with a copy of The Polkinghorne Reader on his birthday. The Polkinghorne Reader (co-published by Templeton Press and SPCK) will be available Fall 2010. The Reader, edited by Oord, will capture some of what Polkinghorne himself considers the best of his wide-ranging contributions to the field.
left to right: John C. Polkinghorne, Thomas Jay Oord
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Recently, Tom Oord, a professor, author, and theologian from the Pacific Northwest, wrote an interesting blog post titled Verisimilitudinous Polkinghorne. In it Oord mentions the Polkinghorne Reader (Templeton Press), a publication in honor of John Polkinghorne’s eightieth birthday. The book will contain the best excerpts from more than thirty of Polkinghorne’s publications.
Look for the reader to hit shelves in the fall.
Read the complete blog post here.
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