Ohio students are ditching their smartphones to build relationships with each other and with God.
Ohio Students
An experimental program at Franciscan University of Steubenville is encouraging students to build real relationships with others and with God in a unique way. The program will be offering scholarships to students who will ditch their smartphones for four years.
Over the last year, there’s been “a pilot program,” Lauren Green reported. “A bunch of alumni got together and said, ‘We’re going to offer these scholarships to students who will ditch their smartphones — not for a semester, not for a year, but for the entire four years that they’re at Franciscan University.'”
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Ditches Smartphones
The aim of this program is to help these students better connect with one another and with God. There have been 30 students who received the scholarship. But 50 more students who didn’t receive tuition assistance joined in ditching their smartphones.
In addition to the main goal of this program, they also believe that this college experiment can also help in decreasing the depression rate among the online generations.
“Thirty percent of 15-34-year-olds” are suffer, Lauren reported.
One young woman who had been diagnosed with depression was healed after she gave up her smartphone.
Build relationship with God
The Franciscan University of Steubenville is a Catholic college in Ohio and they aim not to only educate the young people, but also to help them spiritually.
“Franciscan University of Steubenville is no ordinary university, and a Franciscan education is no ordinary education. Rather, it’s an education as rigorous and demanding as it is faithful — an education that challenges you intellectually, forms you professionally, and feeds you spiritually,” their website reads.
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Reference: Fox News
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