Gary’s interview on the Deeper Magic podcast with Dr. Peter Kapsner and his daughter, Anna Try this link if embed won’t work for you. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4QE0k6QXVLqcNQEjJmCmFU
Belief in God, Not Just Ideas About God
The Holy Spirit and the Liberal Arts: Higher Education, Innovation, and the Mission of the Church
Will twenty-first century Christian college leaders rise to the challenge of innovation as we have throughout history or will we merely get stuck in the past?
Here’s a strange idea — what if a university marketed itself as a place to acquire an education?
The classics really do teach us how to live good and meaningful lives Jacob Howland, The Dallas Morning News American colleges and universities face strong headwinds, including skyrocketing costs and a shrinking supply of prospective students. Many are scrambling to…
Scripture and Culture-Making: What Christian Colleges could Learn from Rabbinic Higher Education
Do 21st-century Christian colleges hold the gospel of Rabbi Jesus in as high a regard as 1st-century Jewish educators held the Torah?
With Prayer in the School of Christ: Higher Education and the Knowledge of God
For Jesus prayer and education were inseparable, because education and the knowledge of God are inseparable.
Shocker: Liberal Arts Grads Gainfully Employed and Happy, by Scott Jaschik
Only 3 percent of Humanities majors with an advanced degree were unemployed in 2015, and 60 percent are managing or supervising others is part of their job.
A Bump in Leadership, Ethics (and Pay): Making a Case for an Arts and Sciences Education
Graduates who report that in college they talked with faculty members about nonacademic and academic subjects outside class are nearly twice as likely to have become leaders in their localities or professions.
History isn’t a ‘useless’ major: It teaches critical thinking, something America needs plenty more of
The value of disciplines that prepare students to be critical thinkers escapes any politician who prefers only mindless followers, but one look at your Facebook feed ought to convince you that America needs more critical thinkers, not less.
The Liberal Arts Major’s Revenge: Better Long Term Earning Power, By George Anders in WSJ
Once people reach their peak-earnings ages of 56 to 60, liberal-arts majors are 3% ahead of the people with degrees in vocational fields, and each discipline’s top 10% lifetime earners, both history ($3.75M) and philosophy majors’ ($3.46M) outstrip even computer science stars ($3.2M). -Wall Street Journal
Strengthening the general ed curriculum requires a change in faculty roles
The daunting goal of a general education curriculum is to inspire students and have them experience the joy of learning in the first weeks of the freshman year…. To accomplish this we must radically change our thinking not only about the roles of faculty who teach general education courses, but also who among our instructors should be assigned to teach these classes.
Degrees of Ignorance: The Gutting of Gen Ed, by Michael W. Clune
There is no reason to unduly limit our students’ horizons. Following your interests does not doom you to a life of poverty and struggle. Today’s students are being deprived of that freedom, and we educators are to blame.
The surprising institutions that refuse to drop the liberal arts, by Jon Marcus
As mainstream universities and colleges cut liberal-arts courses and programs in favor of more vocational disciplines, and the number of students majoring in the humanities continues to decline, unexpected types of institutions are expanding their requirements in the liberal arts with the conviction that these courses teach the kinds of skills employers say they want, and leaders need: critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, and communication.