New Column: Conference Profiles
Conferences are important for learning new skills, networking with colleagues, and being exposed to opportunities offered by exhibitors. Because conferences are so valuable for those serving Christian colleges, we are launching a new column. In fact, promoting good...
SB 1146: Roaring Lambs Score Win in Sexual Liberty vs. Religious Liberty Bill Targeting Christian Schools
For the past 10 to 15 years, those pushing the radical LGBT agenda, with the aid of the cultural elites, have been disrespecting and misinterpreting the U.S. Constitution, including the First Amendment, and passing law after law that seeks to marginalize, silence, and...
Why Welcome Digital Discussion Groups?
Have you noticed that chalkboards are turning into class-sized computer screens, or that school libraries are looking more like coffee shops where directed group discussions and collaborative efforts are being held on students’ personal devices? Digital discussion...
Higher Education Enrollment Trends in Canada and the United States
Higher education enrollment is up slightly in Canada and down slightly in the United States, according to 2012 figures released by Canadian Trends in Higher Education and the U.S. Census Bureau. Enrollment continued to grow modestly in Canada with 1,027,000...
Grand Larceny: The Secular Conversion of Christian Colleges
Eighty years after the founding of Harvard, Cotton Mather and his fellow pastors saw that Harvard was losing its founding purpose. They were so concerned about Harvard’s mission drift that they started a new college: Yale. Most Ivy League colleges were started as...
Best Practices in Choosing an Accreditation Consultant
The Problem: Students want to learn from you, and they might actually enroll if only they could get financial aid and even transfer their credits to other institutions. Maybe the first question their parents ask them is, “Is that college accredited?” The Solution:...
11 Symptoms of Financial Aid Office Trouble
Overseeing the financial aid office is a daunting task with many possible points of failure and a whole new vocabulary. When the office is not running at optimum health, errors and omissions will appear in audits or program reviews by the U.S. Department of Education....
Absolute Craziness On College Campuses
Craziness is the overriding adjective for secular colleges these days, and even a few Christian colleges. Here are some news bites hinting at the degree of this craziness on college campuses: State colleges in California have six gender options for new students,...
The Professional Development Budget: Can You Cut It?
We all agree that colleges are facing significant financial challenges and need to do everything possible to improve the bottom line. We would also agree that developing our employees professionally is important. So, can you cut the professional development budget?...
What Active Board Members Do Besides Meet
What do active board members do when they are not meeting in session on campus? How do they make a difference for their students? The board members at Yellowstone Christian College, a very small but growing school in Montana, provide an example worthy of imitation:...
22 Keys to Safe Study Abroad Programs & Mission Trips
As your students consider studying abroad or taking mission trips, the excitement in planning their itinerary often overshadows planning how to stay safe. A productive trip begins with arriving and assimilating safely, so here are some tips that you can reproduce,...
Do Christian Colleges and Seminaries Have a Moral Responsibility to Screen Ministry Students for Dangerous Mental Disorders?
Most students at Christian colleges want a solid academic experience, but from a biblical perspective. They tend to be honest and open, though they also reflect today’s culture of entitlement. However, there exists a dangerous sub-type that we have been largely...
Five Important Reasons You Should be Using Cooperative Contracts (& Two Things You May Be Wrong About)
I’ve always believed that one of the most unique characteristics of higher education is an inherent willingness to collaborate. Higher ed is an amazingly supportive culture where administrators, academic researchers, scientists and professors learn from and build upon...
It’s the Leadership Process, Not the Plan
On October 17, 1777, English General, Gentlemen Johnny Burgoyne, surrendered an entire British Army to Horatio Gates, commander of the American forces at Saratoga, New York. If the battle of Lexington produced the “shot heard round the world” then Burgoyne’s surrender...
Will Religious Freedom in Canada Survive? Trinity Western Law School Tests the System
The ongoing debate about the legitimacy of Trinity Western University’s proposed law school (TWU, Langley, British Columbia) is a key fault line in a clash of worldviews playing out in our day. On one side is the traditional Christian view, which believes in...
California to Christian Colleges: Bow to the Idol of Sexual Liberty, or Perish!
Religious liberty is on the political chopping block in California. Two heinous bills, targeting California’s religious colleges and universities for legislative destruction, have been silently slithering their way though the halls of the state Capital. They...
You Know Your School Has Gone Left When . . .
Is your college or university on the way to becoming a liberal college? The following thoughts are culled from discussions with faculty and staff at several Christian colleges and universities. You know your Christian college or university has gone or is moving Left...
6-Step Information Literacy Program: Curriculum Mapping for Small Colleges
Information Literacy Instruction (ILI) is a requirement for most accrediting agencies (ABHE, ATS, TRACS, and most regional agencies). That means that each school must offer Information Literacy instruction to its students—all its students. Depending on the agency, the...
