by Steven Ibbotson | Oct 16, 2021 | 2021, Fall, Fundraising
How can a Christian college raise its profile, cultivate donors, and cause more prospective students to consider that school? Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University (John Hopkins University Press, 2019), challenges...
by Steven Ibbotson | Oct 21, 2020 | 2020, Academics, Fall
The classroom is where your school’s mission is or is not accomplished. Do adjunct faculty members teach a substantial number of classes at your school? If so, you will not fully accomplish your school’s mission without helping them feel that they are a valuable...
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 Amy Dee | Oct 18, 2017 | 2017, Academics, Fall
Solid faculty members with longevity at a Christian college often find themselves in new roles, even that of Academic Dean. This can be the result of their own choice or sometimes even coercion, such as when failed searches or limited financial resources “force”...
by Phil Shackleton | Jan 24, 2017 | 2017, The Pretentious Circus, Winter
It’s really funny, almost. And sad. Too many faculty at Christian universities are more afraid of “fundamentalism” than they are of agnosticism or outright atheism and its secularist implications. Most dangerous of all, they are even more afraid of Christian...
