Upcoming Small College Leadership Workshops
Join fellow Christian academia administrators as we hear expert advice and discuss how to effectively operate a small Christian college.
How to Develop Useful Alumni Associations (Part 2):
Off-Site Gatherings
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how to structure a class reunion or homecoming along with several ideas for activities, fundraising, and planning. Here, we'll look at other venues and opportunities for keeping in touch with alumni. Alumni Association Chapters...
7 Steps to Steward God’s Resources into Your School’s Vision
Is your Bible college continuing along a path of “just getting by,” focusing on delivering an amazing student experience, yet your resources never seem to catch up to your school’s full vision? Can this paradigm change?
Are Spirit Guides Teaching Your Students or Is It Just Somebody’s Active Imagination?
Harvard Divinity School has a Psychedelic Chaplaincy. John Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research is recruiting faith leaders for its current research on the effects of psylocibin. Is Harvard Divinity School and John Hopkins paving the way for...
Solutions to Destructive Leadership Behavior on the Christian College Campus (Part 3):
3 Things Not to Do to Your Adversary
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the problem of destructive behavior by campus leaders. Part 2 provided biblical solutions and best practices regarding confronting destructive behavior. We now turn to your personal proactive solution—biblically overcoming evil...
The Top 10 Compliance Audit Findings and How to Correct Them
Ten audit findings have been pretty consistent the last several years per the Department of Education (ED). Are you protected from making these mistakes?
How to Develop Useful Alumni Associations at Christian Colleges (Part 1):
Steps and Resources for Hosting a Successful Class Reunion
At small Christian colleges, we are not simply providing a few years of education. We are beginning a lifelong relationship with our students so that when they graduate, we will continue to make our alumni more effective in their careers and ministries.
3 Action Steps to Equip College Millennials with a Biblical Worldview, Since 98% Don’t Have One
A 2021 Barna research report reveals that 49 out of 50 college-age young adults will run this nation in 20 years with no biblical perspective on life, if they don’t change their foundational worldview thinking before then.
Solutions to Destructive Leadership Behavior on the Christian College Campus (Part 2):
Confronting Destructive Behavior
In part one of this series, I introduced the problem of destructive behavior by campus leaders. This second part provides the strategy for biblical solutions and best practices. Without a strategy to defuse damaging behavior, you are left to panic and hide or deal...
The Left at Christian Universities: Revisiting the Evangelical Mind
Christian universities who want to be diverse have too often selected representatives for diversity who are from the Left. What role does cultural, religious, and moral diversity play at conservative Christian evangelical colleges? At the Carnegie Foundation, an...
Wheaton College Partners with the CCCU to Launch Evangelism Commission
The Wheaton College Billy Graham Center will launch an Evangelism commission, which will share best practices for preparing students to share their faith.
Don’t Give Up When Enrollment Declines!
The enrollment challenges facing colleges and universities are clear. Higher education in the United States is facing extraordinary obstacles and hundreds of institutions are struggling to just maintain current enrollment levels. Even more are facing significant...
The Key Role Software Plays in Schools
From admissions to marketing, find out how an investment in software can improve your processes and save you time.
Ex-Cons, Ex-Druggies, Tattoos, and Christian Education: Introducing You to Untraditional, Non-Traditional Education
“This is the money shot,” I said, teaching on a theological point. Nineteen sets of eyes dramatically scanned each other before several shouted out in near unison some version of, “No, no, no; you can’t say that!” Welcome to the world of Pastors’ School, Set Free...
Reimagining Recruiting During COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has confronted higher education institutions worldwide with uncertainty, financial woes, disruption of plans, and widespread despair. In the United States and elsewhere, it has intensified a trend of declining enrolment that threatens the...
8 Effective Ways to Prepare for Post-Pandemic Enrollment
The impact of the pandemic on higher education has been significant and far-reaching. Christian colleges, universities and schools have been hit particularly hard as many lack robust endowments and the large enrollments necessary to weather the COVID-19 storm. New...
5 Engaging Methods to Market Your Faculty
How can a Christian college raise its profile, cultivate donors, and cause more prospective students to consider that school? Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University (John Hopkins University Press, 2019), challenges...
Solutions to Destructive Leadership Behavior on the Christian Campus (Part 1)
Multiple visits in the mid-1990s to once-beautiful Beirut, Lebanon revealed a war-torn city known as the Paris of the Middle East. Eight Lebanese factions at war with each other transformed the country, and Beirut in particular, into a scar-ridden nation. Led by the...
