I have worked in Christian higher education for 11 years and often encounter people cringing at the mention of certificate programs in Bible. At best, certificates are viewed as remedial and something only offered by smaller Bible colleges that do not have the resources for university-level training. At worst, they are associated with unaccredited Bible […]
Why measure student character development? Today college admissions fiercely compete for students. For many, necessity dictates that solvency transcends mission as students cannot learn if the school closes. With many higher education institutions choosing to be test-optional, assessment as a component of admissions is on life support. Why then discuss a measure of social-emotional character […]
Faith integration involves developing content, weaving in how faith shapes our views, motives, or approaches, as well as how this is applied.If teaching at a Christian college were like any other teaching job, we professors could just go into a class and deliver a great lecture to a room full of future professionals, hold office […]
Students experience many barriers to producing quality research. Library anxiety is one. They mistakenly believe that they should be able to navigate a library by the time they reach college, and they feel shame that they cannot. Alex Nunes suggests that this current generation of students has an additional level of complexity for library instruction: […]
Over six million higher education students in the US take at least one course online.[1] Distance education, like its counterpart in the classroom, should deliver, through instructors, the best opportunity to learn possible. Providing a positive online experience can help students navigate online coursework, have an engaging learning experience and have less frustration due to […]
I have spent more than 38 years of my professional life in Christian higher education, the first 33 years of that time in administration, before moving into my current consultative role in semi-retirement. Looking back on my varied professional experiences, I again consider the question that faced me when handling all the responsibilities of a […]
SOGI Students on our Campus? Where did they come from? Why did they come to a school like ours? They may have come from your church and may have chosen your school because it is a Christian campus. We hear more and more about Sexual Orientation Gender Identity (SOGI) issues. We think that issue is […]
Ever since the Aramean, Naaman, traveled to Samaria to seek healing from the prophet Elisha (2 Kings 5:1 ff), and ever since a group of magi traveled from Persia in search of the Messiah (Matthew 2:1-2), adventurous Gentiles from across the globe have traveled to Israel in pursuit of a profoundly spiritual connection to the […]
When a Bible school looks for ways to grow or just survive, some decide to move to a liberal arts university model. In doing so, they often leave the largest Christian college accrediting association in the US — ABHE: Association for Biblical Higher Education. ABHE requires that all members maintain a Bible/Theology core of thirty […]
The life of a vice provost who also teaches half-time at a small Christian college is busy. There are emails to review, telephone calls to answer, strategies to plan, meetings to lead, administrators to appease, faculty to encourage, students to help, parents to placate, lectures to prepare, classes to teach, tests to give, chapels to […]
