Realizing our intentions
Subtitle: a guide for churches and colleges with distinctive missions
By: Albert J. Meyer.
Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abilene, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780891125396; 9780891125372
Subjects: Church and college -- United States; Church colleges -- United States -- Administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-28/7).
Table of contents: title: Longer-term trends; title: Recent developments; title: Secularization; title: Organizational dynamics; title: Generalizations from experience; title: The recent past and the present situation; title: Curriculum: a different "what?"; title: Instruction: a different "how?"; title: Why might some churches want schools that are different?; title: Intentional "secularization"; title: Diversity, pluralism, and community; title: Academic freedom; title: Faculty teams for distinctive missions; title: A student peer environment that furthers the mission; title: Missions that guide decision-making; title: Trustees that hold in trust the long-term future; title: Presidents who implement the long-term mission; title: Churches that want schools with a difference; title: Intervening in the system; title: Epilogue: what are the prospects?.