Importance of Religious Liberty Protections for Christian Educational Institutions
Religious liberty in education has been under an alarming attack since the federal government began to use federal aid as a mechanism for influencing and controlling the education landscape in the mid-20th century.[/caption] Everyone must care about...
Gay-Student Groups & their Goals
Do gay-identifying students want to form an official gay-student groups on your campus? Their efforts might seem innocent enough and your desires to be tolerant might also seem innocent enough, but be aware that different types of gay-student groups have different...
Muslim Students in Christian Schools: Problem or Opportunity?
Editor’s Note: "From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him,...
Case Study on Improving Christian University Governance
In a previous article for Christian Academia Press, I wrote about the governance crisis in Christian higher ed. Much of this has to do with how the trustees at Christian colleges and universities are constituted. The majority of their members have little if any board...
4 Reasons Why Board Training Is Critical to Ministry Success
Why do some boards in Christian universities demonstrate a culture of excellence year after year while some seem to struggle just to get a majority of directors to show up for meetings or to make important decisions? Could board training be key? Why do some schools...
Avoiding USDE Audits by Improving Financial Aid Verification
Give back the money!? That's right. Violations of financial aid verification remain in the top 10 most common audit and program review findings for the past three years and that can lead to students receiving ineligible disbursements and schools having to return their...
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: What Higher Ed Institutions Need to Do
Given the increasing and rapidly changing risk, cybersecurity should be a key focus for all higher education institutions. Institutions collect and store a wide variety of data across many departments, ranging from health and financial information to intellectual...
Conference Profile: Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS)
The Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) is recognized by both the United States Department of Education (USDOE) and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) as a national institutional accrediting agency for Christian...
3 Strategies to Increase Mental Health Awareness on Campus
According to statistics published by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH; 2018), college students are at an increased risk of developing or presenting mental health symptoms. The top mental health concern among college students, as reported in a 2012 survey...
5 Suggestions for Grace-Filled Employee Evaluations
Angry, hurt, resentful, and confused. That’s how an employee I used to supervise came to me with her latest performance evaluation. Though no longer under my supervision, I volunteered to sit with her to analyze the evaluation with the goal of helping her reframe the...
SACAP Grant Application Available
Spiritually Accountable Colleges Assessment Project (SACAP) Application To help promote the SACAP, we are offering $500 grants to students engaged in doctoral work in accredited, Christian graduate schools and universities. The following is the text from the...
Designing Faith Integration Lectures Using C.I.A. Techniques
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...
How Gay Activists Mobilize on Christian Campuses
Invasion of the Mission Snatchers Prevalence of Gay Activists on Campus Are gay activists mobilizing on your campus? How would you know? In his book, Gay on God’s Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities, Jonathan Coley reports on...
5 Ways Faculty Can Improve the Quality of Student Research
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...
Knowing What It Costs: The Importance of Marginal Revenue Analysis
The higher education industry is large and complex. There are many pain points that keep senior leadership teams up at night. Institutions of all sizes need to answer these key questions: Do you actively monitor your Department of Education ratios and debt covenant...
Solving 4 Big Problems from the Business Office
Many of the biggest challenges facing faith-based higher educational institutions today can be overwhelming. Especially when systems, traditions, finances, and institutional culture get in the way of making necessary changes. How can you solve the following issues...
Top Ten List for Online Distance Education Students
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...
Should a University President Teach?
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...
