Tag: Higher Education

University of Nebraska graduates

What’s More Expensive Than Going to College? Not Going to College

February 17, 2014

This afternoon I’ll be meeting with prospective students and their parents. I hope that they’ve all read this report from the Pew Research Center: On virtually every measure of economic well-being and career attainment—from personal earnings to job satisfaction to the share employed full time—young college graduates are outperforming their peers with less education. And when … More What’s More Expensive Than Going to College? Not Going to College

Dr. Gary R. Cook, president of Dallas Baptist University

How Well Paid Are Christian College Presidents?

December 17, 2013

About six months ago I explored the question, “How Well Paid Are Christian College Faculty?“, and found that “even the best of the evangelical college set can struggle to keep up with their self-defined peers” when it comes to paying professors. Is the same true of our bosses? On Sunday the Chronicle of Higher Education … More How Well Paid Are Christian College Presidents?

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Watch the Entire Series of Talks Previewing Our Book on Pietism and Higher Education

December 16, 2013

Last Thursday morning in the Bethel University Library, philosopher David Williams (Azusa Pacific University) returned to his alma mater to give the seventh and final talk in a series previewing chapters from Whole and Holy Persons: A Pietist Approach to Christian Higher Education (forthcoming in late 2014 from InterVarsity Press). In “The Pietist Impulse and … More Watch the Entire Series of Talks Previewing Our Book on Pietism and Higher Education

Worthen, Apostles of Reason

That Was The Week That Was

December 7, 2013

Here… • Rest in peace, Nelson Mandela. • Would Pietists have embraced C.S. Lewis as much as evangelicals, Catholics, Mormons, and others have? • Can Christian churches (and colleges) tackle the challenge of becoming multi-ethnic if they haven’t learned to bridge differences within racially similar communities (e.g., class and gender)? (See also Ed Stetzer’s reflection … More That Was The Week That Was

14th century lecture, as painted by Laurentius de Voltolina

The Value of the “Sage on the Stage”

December 2, 2013

If you want to sound like you’re a serious, forward-thinking educator these days, you’d best master a couple of facile cliches: (1) speak derisively of the “sage on the stage” in order (2) to exhort colleagues to embrace “student-centered, active learning.” To help yourself convey the proper degree of disdain for the lecture, think back … More The Value of the “Sage on the Stage”

Blanchard Hall at Wheaton College

The Challenge of Ranking Christian Colleges

November 26, 2013

It’s about as unlikely as a question as you’re going to see over an article in The Atlantic: “Is it possible to judge a school’s ability to encourage deeper religious faith?” But that’s what appeared this morning above a piece by freelance writer Ruth Graham, who started by confessing that she sometimes wonders whether my … More The Challenge of Ranking Christian Colleges

Nathan Lindquist

In Praise of Colleagues, Learning in “War-Time”

November 15, 2013

Earlier this week my employer announced further results of a prioritization and review process meant to address a serious budgetary shortfall. Previously, this had resulted in the loss of several programs and faculty positions and the closure of Bethel’s arts and media center in New York City. On Monday a number of staff (far more … More In Praise of Colleagues, Learning in “War-Time”