The strategy appears to be working. Check out Liam Knox’s Inside Higher Education piece on small liberal arts colleges that are trying to “bet on new athletics programs” to attract students: Here is the section on Calvin University: Calvin University...
French talks to Mark Oppenheimer at Inside Higher Ed about Liberty University. Listen: French says he is still getting emails from people saying that his New York Times column on Liberty University did not go far enough in exposing the...
John Hawthorne, a sociologist who was an administrator at multiple Christian colleges, is writing a book titled The Fearless Christian University. Here is a taste of his recent Substack post: “Three Problematic Metaphors in Christian Higher Education“: Looking at Christian...
I noted this in my piece last week: “Who is Mike Johnson?” It has now caught the attention of the Associated Press. Here is Brian Slodysjo: Before House Speaker Mike Johnson was elected to public office, he was the dean of a...
We introduced you to this story last month.Get up to speed here. Katherine Knott has the latest at Insider Higher Ed: The Education Department is fining Grand Canyon University a record $37.7Â million for misleading more than 7,500 students about the...
In case you don’t know what I am talking about in the title of this post, get up to speed here. I am sure that Liberty University and its supporters will dismiss French’s piece as yet another hit job by...
When you have a free moment check out the website or twitter feed of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center. You will find articles with titles like this: “Why Young Evangelicals Are in Danger of Becoming Puppets for Climate Marxism.”...
Grand Canyon University, a Phoenix-based private evangelical university, is one of the largest Christian universities in the world. It is now claiming that United States government is “coordinating attacks against it.” Here is Katherine Knott at Inside Higher Ed: Grand...
Here is Susan Svrluga at The Washington Post: Liberty University has failed for years to keep its campus safe and repeatedly violated the federal law that specifies how it should do so, according to preliminary confidential findings from an Education...
Yesterday I had a great visit to Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. Thanks to David Faber for hosting me and to Ryan Loewen and Erik Noren for opening up their classes to this visitor. One of my assignments was to...
Last week we called your attention to Wheaton College’s 122-page report on its history of race. In response to the findings of that report, Wheaton College announced that it would be changing the name of its library. It is no...
Soong-Chan Rah is the Robert Munger Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical seminary in Pasadena, California. Here is a recent post from his Substack page: Despite all the craziness in the Evangelical world, I have retained my...
The disgraced former president of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr., is in the midst of a legal war with his brother and the university which forced him out of office. The fight is over the legal legacy of Jerry Falwell...
Hesston College is a tiny (325 students) Mennonite school in Hesston, Kansas. Here is Tim Huber at Anabaptist World: Hesston College faculty members on Sept. 5 voted to express no confidence in President Joseph A. Manickam. The motion cited “failure...
A Wheaton College task force has released a 122-page historical report on race relations at the evangelical institution. Read it here. Here is Daniel Silliman and Kate Shellnut at Christianity Today: Though the flagship evangelical institution was founded by abolitionists,...
Last month I called your attention to a migrant shelter hosted by Eastern Nazarene College, a Christian college in Quincy, Massachusetts. You can read “Eastern Nazarene College: An Evangelical School Doing Evangelical Things” here. Here is the latest from The...
Some of you recall the revival or “outpouring” that happened earlier this year at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. We covered it extensively here. Over at Inside Higher Ed, Sara Weissman writes, “Asbury University, a small Christian institution in Kentucky,...
Here is the the Eastern Nazarene College website: Eastern Nazarene College’s (ENC) mission is ‘to provide a transformational education that equips diverse students to lead and serve our world as agents of Christ’s love and truth.’ And our vision carries...
Faculty are leaving and others are getting cut, but it looks like the The Kings College is still alive. Here is Meagan Saliashvili at Religion News Service: The last remaining evangelical Christian college in New York City, The King’s College,...
Here is Emily Belz at Christianity Today: Alliance University, a 140-year-old Christian & Missionary Alliance (CMA) school in New York City, will close on August 31 after years of financial struggles. Known for much of its history as Nyack College,...
