The Christian college phenomenon
Subtitle: inside America's fastest growing institutions of higher learning
By: Samuel Joeckel and Thomas Chesnes, editors
Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Abilene, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780891122845
Subjects: Christian universities and colleges; Religious life; Conduct of life; Higher education and state; College students; Christian college students
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A slippery slope to secularization? : the worthwhile risk of Christian higher education / Samuel Joeckel and Thomas Chesnes; title: Christian scholarship : opportunities, realities, and challenges / Susan VanZanten; title: A coda on faith, learning, and scholarly rigor / David L. Weeks and Donald G. Isaak; title: Thick ecumenism : the possibility of enlarging our circles at Christian colleges and universities / Phillip Irving Mitchell; title: Faith and campus culture : are faculty and students on the same page? / Carol Woodfin; title: Faith and campus culture : living and learning in the questions / Wayne Barnard; title: In loco parentis : strengths, weaknesses, and future directions / C. Eric Jones and April L. Cunion; title: In loco parentis : an evolving concept / Edee M. Schulze and Paul Blezien; title: In loco parentis from a student and faculty perspective / Allison Sanders and Samuel Joeckel; title: The hesitants among us : (AF) (H) (T) and the tightrope act of Christian scholarship / Joe Ricke; title: Fear not : security, risk, and academic freedom / Dan Russ; title: What is freedom for? : rhetoric and reality at Christian colleges / David Hoekema; title: Race and ethnicity in CCCU schools : rhetoric and reality / Alvaro Nieves; title: Understanding CCCU faculty of color / Jenell Williams Paris and Michelle Knights; title: Biblical multiculturalism : moving forward in deed and truth / Terriel Byrd and Olga Rybalkina; title: Finding a home in academia : gender equity at CCCU institutions / M. Elizabeth Hall; title: We're doomed : why Christian colleges and universities must lead on the issue of gender equity and why they don't / Bettina Tate Pederson and Allyson Jule; title: Holding on to the traditions of men : Christianity, gender, and the academy / Jennifer McKinney; title: Deconstructing the second pillar of antievolutionism in Christian higher education / Thomas Chesnes; title: Inherited beliefs and evolved brains : a CCCU challenge / Howard Van Till; title: Evolution and Christian faith / Richard G. Colling.