Tim Clydesdale is professor of sociology at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) and author of The First Year Out: Understanding American Teens after High School (Chicago, 2007). His best-known work in NetVUE circles is The Purposeful Graduate: Why Colleges Must Talk to Students about Vocation (Chicago, 2015), which is a study of the Lilly-funded Programs for the Theological Exploration of Vocation. With co-author Kathleen Garces-Foley of Marymount University, he also wrote The Twentysomething Soul: Understanding the Religious and Secular Lives of American Young Adults (Oxford, 2019). Presently, he is conducting research with Angela Morenz of Blackburn College and Michael Mitchell of TCNJ for a NetVUE-funded project titled The Purposeful Student Athlete.
Tim Clydesdale
Professor of Sociology, The College of New Jersey
