Solid faculty members with longevity at a Christian college often find themselves in new roles. This can be the result of their own choice or sometimes even coercion, such as when failed searches or limited financial resources “force” faculty into these new roles. While many may agree that faculty status easily supersedes a seat in the […]
Safeguarding against Mission Drift In the Middle Ages, kind-hearted Franciscan monks developed a charity model to make sure the poor could buy food and wisely manage their money. This model, called Montes Pietatius, was also intended to help protect the poor from people who would take advantage of them (e.g., loan sharks). The Montes Pietatius […]
An ‘A’ Does Not Equal Effective Higher Education Assumptions regarding classroom success permeate the education system and families of individual students. For many an ‘A’ is the ultimate prize, a ‘B’ is disappointing, and a ‘C’ may signal inadequacy. Society as a whole, represented by the educational and family structure, seems to confirm this thought. […]
“Draftee’s Prayer” Dear Lord, today I go to war: To fight, to die, Tell me what for? Dear Lord, I’ll fight, I do not fear, Germans or Japs; My fears are here. America! —Excerpt of the 1943 “Draftee’s Prayer,” quoted in A People’s History of the United States ♥ Nearly one million high school students […]
