Posted by: Jason
on May 3, 2011
Having gone through accreditation and reaccreditation efforts as a university professor, I find them to be stressful, time-consuming, and expensive endeavors. So why should Christian colleges concern themselves with such difficulties? Well, to paraphrase Churchill, accreditation is the worst form of institutional quality control except all those other forms that have been tried.
Posted by: Jason
on May 1, 2011
Despite near uniform opposition from all sectors of higher education, the latest Dear Colleague letters from the Department of Education continue the march toward requiring online learning providers to secure state authorization anywhere they have students.
Posted by: Sarah
on Feb 1, 2011
During a meeting requested by the Executive Presbytery, three Christian colleges in Springfield, MO, took the first steps toward creating a “consolidated university.” In an unprecedented meeting with the “board of directors from Central Bible College, Evangel University, and the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary,” these board members announced the plans to merge their post-secondary institutions. According to a press release and statement, AGTS President Byron D. Klaus discusses how this new merger is a positive measure for each of the three Christian post-secondary institutions.
Posted by: Jason
on Jan 31, 2011
Earlier this month, John Wesley College changed its name to Laurel University. President Larry McCullough stated in a news release (as reported in the Greensboro, NC News & Record) that “With the new name choice, the school re-affirms its strong commitment to our interdenominational Christian heritage and mission. We want a name that speaks of a future, a new horizon, that communicates energy and progress with simplicity.”
Posted by: Jason
on Jan 29, 2011
Lancaster Bible College joins BakersGuide.com as a featured school with a focus on their online Bachelor of Science in Bible degree completion program. This online degree competition program combines accelerated online courses and the possibility of advanced standing based on life experience.
Posted by: Sarah
on Jan 18, 2011
With an emphasis on patriotism, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary has outranked other seminaries in training new military chaplains according to an article in The Christian Century. According to the article, "One out of every five Air Force chaplain candidates studying at an evangelical seminary is enrolled at Liberty."
Posted by: Anahid
on Jun 14, 2010
According to Garrett, and online learning analyst for Eduventures, faith-based schools seem to have an advantage over others in the online education market. The number of online students enrolled in Christian Universities has been growing rapidly. After coming to close financial ruin, Grand Canyon University was forced to "reinvent itself as a for-profit online university." They have 36,000 students, of which 90% are distance learners.
Posted by: Jason
on Mar 18, 2010
One of the trends in the online learning industry is for-profit companies purchasing struggling accredited religious and liberal arts colleges. On Tuesday, the Lutheran liberal arts Dana College announced its purchase by a private for-profit company, the newly-created Dana Education Corporation.
Posted by: Jason
on Feb 21, 2010
When I was in college, I read through the writings of Francis Schaeffer. One of the things that struck me was his contention that ideas (particularly those concerning truth) move through the world in stages. In The God Who Is There, Schaeffer presents a staircase (below his famous line of despair) and notes that the shift in truth affects philosophy first, then art, then music, then into the general culture, and finally into theology. I’ve heard it put more broadly concerning cultural trends – first they hit the academy, then a decade later they permeate popular culture, then about ten years after that the church finally embraces the trend.
Posted by: Jason
on Feb 18, 2010
Back in the fall I received an email from Ken Kuhlken, President and Director of Creative Writing at Perelandra College. Perelandra is a small DETC-accredited online Christian college in California.
