This story discusses the increase in evangelicals at Harvard. Apparently, one of the major reasons is the higher number of non-Anglos (African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians) who are dedicated Christians.

I’ve yet to see any figures on the increasing number of Mormons at America’s universities, but I would guess that the difference is huge. Just to give you one idea, when I went to Stanford in the early 1980s, there was no ward and students met off-campus with the local family ward. Now, there are two very active wards and an Institute program. My wife tells me that Colorado State, her alma mater, has had an even bigger increase.

So, let’s produce some Bloggernacle firepower — tell the world how your student wards (and perhaps even stakes) have grown at your universities in the past few years. The growth may even dwarf the increase in evangelicals at Harvard.

On Sunday, we found out that one of the brethren in the Spanish ward that shares our chapel in Miami had been deported. He is married to an American woman and has two children, but he had not filled out his immigration papers correctly, so the INS caught up with him and deported him back to Central America, leaving his wife without a husband and his children without a father.

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