Financial Aid Impacts Admissions: 12 Solutions to Potential Problems
Christian colleges, universities, and schools face a myriad of challenges that threaten much-needed revenue streams. The majority of schools lack substantial endowments and must rely on net tuition dollars to meet growing expenses. This financial challenge is...
5 Faith Integrating Strategies for the Christian College Classroom
In the Christian college setting, it is dangerous to presume that all professors in all departments are integrating their faith in the classroom. It is also dangerous to presume that this topic is routinely addressed with new faculty or revisited in department...
How to Improve Student Attention Span in Christian Academia
The average attention span of students measured in the year 2000 was 12 seconds. In 2012 the length dropped to eight seconds. The attention span of a gold fish is nine seconds.[1] The digital age presents a problem for students. It is one of distraction and inability...
13 Audit Findings That Will Bring Any Christian School to Its Knees
People with good academic ideas often don’t consult their financial aid officer before beginning their new venture. That oversight can cost the school and the person with the great idea valuable time, money, and wasted effort. Federal regulations are sometimes ridged,...
5 Ways to Sabotage Accreditation and How to Overcome Them
In an era filled with vision and hope, two men seized an audacious opportunity. In 1803, the French sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States—828,000,000 square miles of uncharted territory—as large as the rest of the nation. President Thomas Jefferson asked...
How to Implement an Effective Enterprise Risk Management Strategy At Christian Colleges and Universities
The term “enterprise risk management” (ERM) is getting a lot of attention lately. But the fact is, your institution is already implementing enterprise risk management every time you make a decision considering risk, which is probably every day. The question is whether...
Another Reason to Choose a Christian College
My youngest is choosing a college. I hope she will choose a Christian college. The preeminent university in her field is so anti-Christian that they expelled Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship from their school. Certainly, that academic community needs ambassadors of...
Parents are Idiots
In a recent faculty discussion of diversity, a professor of social ethics expressed disappointment that his students, having finished his course, had not come to the conclusion that the Iraq war was unjust. Let’s unpack this. First, he seems to believe that the...
Cost of Free Community College Education
President Obama recently proposed in his State of the Union Address that a community college education should be free for all Americans. What is the cost of free community college education? That's right. No tuition! Billed as a way to get more low-income high school...
Free Junior College & Dual Credit: Promise or Threat?
The White House released a progress report in September on President Obama’s $60 billion “American College Promise” plan for “free” community college education, designed to increase access to higher ed and lower student debt. Is Robin Hood blessing America...
Is It Time to Choose an Education Management System? What You Need to Know
The Problem: Tangled Like Spaghetti A time always comes when a school outgrows homemade spreadsheets and ol’ Mrs. Johnson’s unique filing system. If you do not yet have an education management system, consider whether the following crazy situation sound a little like...
Three Tips on How to Recruit and Retain Latino Students
The opportunity to recruit Latino students should be important to Christian colleges. Latinos are forecasted to be 30% of the population in the U.S. by 2060, belonging to the more than 50% majority-minority, according to the U.S. Census. They have become the largest...
Accreditation Consultant Prices
Is Hiring an Accreditation Consultant Worth Your School’s Money? Have you wondered whether accreditation consultant prices are worth the money? Let’s consider a realistic case study: Imagine that half your board neither donates money or brings in donations. And...
Unusual Enrollment History Selection Process to Change for 2016–17
Students are not only smart, they can be industriously unethical too. Some have learned how to attend a school just long enough to get financial aid and then leave the school to attend another school to repeat the offense. These students fraudulently receive grant...
Ministry Placement – 4 Trends in Full-Time Vocational Ministry
Vocational ministry placement offices must take into account that there are changes in the roles of our graduates. In my role as Director of Placement at Dallas Theological Seminary, I’ve observed recent trends develop in the hiring processes of evangelical churches...
Religious Freedom, Human Sexuality, Same-Sex Marriage and Christian Colleges: What is at Stake?
The recent US Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriages is just one more example of what happens when the laws of the land conflict with the Christian conscience. When legal opinions on same-sex marriage and Christian colleges are at odds, there could be...
The Supreme Court Marriage Ruling, Christian Higher Ed and a Canadian Experience
Since the June 2015 SCOTUS ruling to legalize same-sex marriage across the US, American Bible-believers have wondered what this means for their colleges, universities and seminaries. Has the Supreme Court determined that marriage morals held by Evangelical colleges,...
Privatizing the Funding of Christian Higher Education: A Response to the US Supreme Court on Gay Marriage
Hostility and threats aimed at Christian higher education are at an all-time high. Just ask Gordon College, George Fox, and Cal Baptist Universities. They have all recently fought battles over LGBT-related issues. The recent decision of the Supreme Court on gay...
