by Matthew Bracey | Feb 12, 2019 | 2019, Academics, Winter
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...
by John Schwandt | Oct 16, 2018 | 2018, Academics, Fall, Presidents
Seminaries have an incredible opportunity to reimagine what their future can be as a truly new version of themselves — Seminary 2.0. To accomplish that, they can’t simply update their existing program. They must be willing to adopt a “new version” mentality, as they...
by Jan Haas | Oct 16, 2018 | 2018, Academics, Fall, Recruiting
The number of higher education institutions rethinking how they screen and accept new students continues to grow (Goral, 2018). Many higher education institutions no longer require ACT or SAT scores for prospective undergraduates. These test-optional schools say...
by David Agron, Ph.D. | Jun 1, 2018 | 2018, Academics, Spring
Bible software is too limiting a term for the amazing and powerful tools that are available today. If we are equipping students to minister over the next 40 years, instead of over the last 40, robust theological software is a must while in school. Through use in...
by Jennifer King | Jun 1, 2018 | 2018, Academics, Spring
This is a true story: the assessment coordinator at a small college wanted to find an excellent sample — the best example of student work in an ePortfolio that met the rubric criteria for the institutional student learning outcome of Written Communication. By the...
by Andrew Graham | Jan 30, 2018 | 2018, Academics, Student Services, Winter
If you are involved in Christian higher education, you know that students identify us as trustworthy sources of wisdom when they are in distress. It may seem as though troubled students use crowd-sourced strategies to seek feedback via social media, but the...
