Resources for faculty and campus ministers seeking to help students on their journey to discipleship (QRF) TEACHING THE JESUS CLIMB: Fostering a community of faculty, campus ministers, student life leaders, pastors, and youth workers seeking to guide students on their…
Lessons From a Decade of Teaching Online
Our college places a high value on relational learning, which is much more natural on a campus where students and teachers get to interact during and after classes. Over the years we’ve found that cultivating these relationships online is possible, but takes great intentionality.
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…
The Greco-Roman Liberal Arts: When Students were More than Numbers
Whereas Plato and Aristotle interacted with their students as friends, the depersonalized modern university student is often little more than a number. No relationship means no moral transformation, at least not for the good.
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.
Saint Patrick and the Missional Future of Christian Higher Education
The patron saint of Ireland is rarely credited with what was perhaps his greatest achievement. (Hint: It’s not green beer.)
‘Hence’ Plagiarism: Professor’s Criticism of Latina Honor Student’s Vocabulary Provokes National Conversation on Race
My last name and appearance immediately instills a set of biases before I have the chance to open my mouth. The professor’s “blue pen was the catalyst that opened an ocean of self-doubt that I worked so hard to destroy.
In Elite Schools’ Vast Endowments, Malcolm Gladwell Sees ‘Obscene’ Inequity in Hoarding Money Intended for Students
“I was going to donate money to Yale. But maybe it makes more sense to mail a check directly to the hedge fund of my choice.” – Malcolm Gladwell (Twitter)
The Day the Purpose of College Changed, by Dan Berrett
If a university is not a place where intellectual curiosity is to be encouraged, and subsidized, then it is nothing.