Religion’s Surprising Impact on Academic Success | Ilana M. Horwitz | March 2025

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

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How does the “abider advantage” help many to excel in school? Religion complements education with discipline, structure, and support. Ilana M. Horwitz, assistant professor of Jewish studies and sociology at Tulane University, delivered this forum address on March 25, 2025. You can access the talk here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the recent speeches podcast presented by BYU Speaches, featuring inspiring new
0:06.4	devotionals and forums given each week on BYU campus. Be sure to check out our other podcasts
0:12.5	by searching BYU speeches wherever you get your podcasts or by visitingspeches.bYU.edu slash
0:20.3	podcasts. This forum address entitled, Religion's
0:25.1	surprising impact on academic success was given on March 25th of 2025 by Alana M. Horwitz,
0:32.4	then an assistant professor of Jewish Studies in Sociology at Tulane University.
0:43.3	Wow, thank you so much. I am so honored to be here with you this morning. I'd especially like to thank Elder Clark Gilbert and Vice President Justin Collings for inviting me to be here.
0:50.3	It's not every day that a Jewish studies professor from Tulane University ends up in front of
0:55.7	5,000 students at BYU.
0:59.2	It's also not every day that I get to trade in my New Orleans swamps for your beautiful
1:04.1	snow-capped mountains.
1:05.1	Wow.
1:06.1	They are beautiful.
1:13.6	It is even more exceptional that I get to speak on a campus with a basketball team that is still dancing in the NCAA tournament.
1:22.6	There we go.
1:36.0	And while I missed my bignay this morning, I am looking forward to eating some of those famous tater tots for lunch.
1:42.0	But while the culinary tastes of our cities might be a bit different, one thing that we
1:46.1	certainly share is a belief in the power of education.
1:51.2	And that is what I want to talk with you about today.
1:55.5	Two-thirds of Americans don't graduate college.
2:00.0	Some of them never start, while some of them start, but never finish.
2:05.6	As a sociologist, my job is to understand why, and for over a decade, I have studied what helps
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