Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. -C.S. Lewis

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Entries Tagged as 'Academics'

Teen Commits Suicide After Parents Threaten To Punish Over Grades

December 14th, 2006 2 Comments

NBC 10 in Philly reports:
The father of the 16-year-old who killed himself inside his high school Tuesday over a less-than-satisfactory report card urged students at a candlelight vigil to listen to troubled classmates. His son, Shane Halligan, died after he put what appeared to be an AK-47 to his chin and pulled the trigger in [...]

Wheaton College president’s book on Christ-Centered Higher Education

November 23rd, 2006 No Comments

Happy Thanksgiving!
 
            In May 2005, I had the privilege of visiting Wheaton College and spending nearly an entire day with president Duane Litfin.  We discussed, among other things, the landscape of Christian higher education in the United States and the current challenges that institutions face both internally and externally.  I also had the opportunity to [...]