The story of public higher education’s transition from a key national priority to an increasingly neglected special interest cannot be laid at the feet of any one individual or ideology. We did this to ourselves and the longterm consequences could be devastating.
Educators, filmmakers, ministers, and leaders of all kinds share a common desire to influence society for good. What we lack is a common language for understanding one another’s perspectives. Three years into this project I feel as if we are only just beginning to understand one another… but it’s a promising start.
Whereas Plato and Aristotle called their students friends, today’s students are often little more than numbers. The liberal arts vision of generating a steady stream of truth-seeking leaders to flood our culture with virtue has clearly fallen on hard times.
No one asks a corporate lawyer whether he protects the interests of his clients for “love.” Why do so many students decide to seek Ph.D.’s, even knowing what they know about the academic labor system? Should they do it for “love”?
At an annual growth rate of 7.45 percent, tuition has vastly outstripped both the consumer price index and health care inflation (see chart). The growth in home prices during the housing bubble looks like a mere bump in the road by comparison.
This could be an historic event in the journey toward the Protestant church in America fully embracing artists in general and filmmakers in particular.
An introduction to five-part series based upon Todd’s five-year research project on the spirituality of students at Christian colleges. The data from more than 3,000 Christian college students across the United States and Canada provides a fascinating snapshot of how…
Whether Heisman Trophy finalist Manti Te’o was Victim or Conspirator, Notre Dame officials have entered uncharted waters in the brave new world of social media and higher education. Here’s why.
The Chronicle of Higher Education blog “Wired Campus” is one of the top Educational Technology forums in the world. Jeffrey R. Young lists ten top Wired Campus stories of 2012:
Franco Zeffirelli’s masterful TV mini-series. Incredibly complex and textured.
Biola Cinema and Media Arts program is considered one of the top film schools for young filmmakers of faith. Their goal is to prepare our students spiritually, intellectually, and professionally to become exceptional visual storytellers who can compete and succeed with the best of the best in the areas of film, television, and digital media.
Join the student filmmakers of Biola University’s Cinema and Media Arts Department for the premiere of their student film, “AWAY.”
Doors open at 7PM at the historic Whittier Village Cinema in uptown Whittier, with a dessert reception to follow.
And don’t miss Biola CMA grad Zach King’s cool video “IPad Hologram Setting,” It just passed 1.7 million views.
Unlike our current examination-based ‘quick response’ educational system, serious intellectual effort requires slow, usually painstaking thought, often with wrong roads taken along the way to the right destination, if one is lucky enough to arrive there.