Fides Quaerens Intellectum

Last evening a tornado ripped through the campus of Union University (www.uu.edu), IMPACT 360′s (www.impact360.net) academic partner. Having talked with one of our alums who is now taking his degree at Union, they are estimating the damage to the campus physical plant to be in the tens of millions. The good news is that no [...]

For some time I’ve been aware of “Top 10 Party Colleges” lists, but today the Princeton Review threw me for a loop.  They also publish their own Top 20 party schools list, but in the spirit of being fair and balanced, they also publish their own list of “Stone-Cold Sober” schools.  Of course the absence [...]

Son of Westminster’s blogpost the other day on David Dockery and his blog interview on faith and learning in the Christian college inspired me to post something in the same vein, although what follows here is just a bit older by comparison.  Noah Porter, president of Yale in the late nineteenth century, delivered the keynote address at [...]

In my years of working with college students–from freshmen to seniors–at least one thing is clear:  they usually don’t know what to do with their leisure time.  If  they’re not in class or working on a paper, then they’re probably plugged in to their ipods, or perhaps chatting or gaming on the internet.  Maybe even a [...]

Spring 2002 saw the conclusion of my doctoral coursework at Baylor University, and one of my seminar papers that semester focused on faith, learning and the concept of Baylor as a training grouds for proper citizen formation.  As part of my research, I had the opportunity to interview (then) President Robert Sloan, who is now president [...]

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 [...]

In his book The Idea of a College (1959), educator and Harvard chaplain D. Elton Trueblood identified the American cultural assumption regarding the purpose of higher education:   “Millions, when they think of college, think primarily of one thing—how can the student be prepared most perfectly or most quickly to do the work associated with [...]