by David Agron, Ph.D. | Feb 12, 2019 | 2017, Conference Profile, Winter
The ABACC conference provides professional development, networking, and support for Christian higher education business and finance officers. Being a specialized conference, you would not want to send a wide variety of staff members here. But, it is almost essential...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Oct 16, 2018 | 2018, Fall, Public Policy
Tracing Steps to APU’s LGBTQ Crisis Azusa Pacific University (APU), a major evangelical school in Southern California, was assaulted this month with headlines like these: “Queering Azusa Pacific University,” “Azusa Pacific Okays Gay Romance (But Not Sex and Marriage)”...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Oct 16, 2018 | 2018, Fall, Spiritual Life
Christian colleges founded with offering plate money have shown a disturbing ability to drift away from the purposes for which so many had previously sacrificed. Aren’t administrators that lead a Christian institution away from Kingdom purposes guilty of grand...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Oct 16, 2018 | 2018, Fall, Spiritual Life
Just as colleges are required to make public their consumer outcomes (e.g., graduation rate, retention rate, employment rate), we believe Christian colleges should also make public their spiritual outcomes. Having proposed this to the ABHE Commission on accreditation,...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Jun 2, 2018 | 2018, Business Mgmt, Spring
Do you hear ticking? Is there is a bomb ready to detonate at your institution? Considering how so many colleges are on the verge of an explosion from unresolved financial weaknesses, maybe you should just drown out the ticking with earplugs. Or, maybe you should take...