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 […]
Christian higher education
Wheaton College study on race: “We cannot be healed and cannot be reconciled unless and until we repent”
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, […]
Paul Thompson on higher education, temperance, and biblical views on race
Paul Thompson is Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of History at North Greenville University. He is the author of A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black […]
More reporting on the closing of Alliance University (Nyack 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, […]
Report: Alliance University (Nyack College) will close
We have posted about the financial troubles of The Kings College. The Christian college is on the brink of closing. Kings is currently located in Manhattan, but from 1955-1994 it existed in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York. Nyack College […]
Seattle Pacific University will make huge cuts to its academic budget
Another Christian college is in financial trouble. Here is Nina Shapiro at The Seattle Times: Seattle Pacific University is cutting its budget for academic programs by 40% — mostly through steep faculty layoffs, effective in a year. The announcement by […]
Ideas in Progress: Christopher Gehrz on choosing a (Christian) college
Our kids are still in middle school, so we’ve got a few years to go before we need to help them make the two of the biggest decisions they’ll make: where to go to college and what to do when […]
More than meets the eye: Emma Green’s profile of Hillsdale College this week in the New Yorker
Earlier this week, Emma Green had an in-depth profile of Hillsdale College in the New Yorker. Intriguingly titled “The Christian Liberal Arts School at the Heart of the Culture Wars,” the profile emphasized Hillsdale’s connections to the Republic Party. But […]
What is the purpose of college? Recent articles and a book in progress
Yesterday at The Way of Improvement, John Fea had posted about Bret Devereaux’s New York Times Opinion article from this weekend. Devereaux’s article is in today’s print version of the New York Times, continuing this important conversation. But what is […]
Two Twitter threads that reveal the current state of The Kings College, a Christian college in New York City
We have covered the financial difficulties of The Kings College here and here. Here is New York journalist Sam Thielman: And here is Alissa Wilkinson, a writer and film critic who teaches English at The Kings College:
Grove City College update
We originally covered this story here. Colleen Flaherty gets us up to speed at Inside Higher Education. Grove City College’s Board of Trustees recently said that it had formed a committee to investigate allegations of “mission drift” on campus and […]
What is going on (again) at Southwest Baptist University?
We did a post on this Baptist college back in May. At that time we wrote about Dwayne Walker, a social work professor, who was denied tenure for his failure to affirm creationism and his views on homosexuality. Now Brian […]