Product Description: In recent years, Protestant churches and denominations have become increasingly concerned with issues of racial diversity and reconciliation. Recent scholarship has examined this growing awareness, but has seldom attended to issues of diversity on the campuses and seminaries that educate the leaders of these churches and denominations: campuses and seminaries which have, historically, enrolled fewer students of color than nonsectarian institutions...read more

Product Description: Samuel Schuman examines the place of religious colleges and universities, particularly evangelical Protestant institutions, in contemporary American higher education. Many faith-based schools are flourishing. They have rigorous academic standards, impressive student recruitment, ambitious philanthropic goals, and well-maintained campuses and facilities...read more

Serves as a clear introduction to the field of higher Christian education, focusing on the distinctive, important role of Christian-influenced learning--both in the Kingdom of God and in the academic world. Original.

Product Description: A bold new vision for Christian colleges and universities! Challenging liberal influence, Christian educators advocate a church-centered definition of academic freedom. Essays on theology, Scripture, the sciences, and humanities call faculty and students, as members of Christ's body, to be social and political witnesses in a permissive society...read more

Professing in the Postmodern Academy examines the landscape of religiously affiliated higher education in America from the perspective of faculty members critically committed to the future of church-related institutions. The book includes articles on a variety of topics from members of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related College, a project that has involved ninety church-related institutions since 1996.

Product Description: Can Christian faith sustain the life of the mind? This beautifully written essay by Richard Hughes counters the widespread perception of Christians as steeped in narrowness and dogmatism and provides a powerful argument that faith, properly pursued, in fact nourishes the openness and curiosity that make a life of the mind possible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Those who identify with the cause of distinctly Christian higher education will appreciate this proud history of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). The book marks the organization's twenty-fifth anniversary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Christian Liberal Arts articulates the practical, pedagogical, and theological reasons why Christian liberal arts colleges are distinctive in the world of American higher education. Mannoia enumerates the intrinsic and instrumental values of Christian liberal arts, and how both should forcefully shape an institution's goals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the differences between Christian and secular schools and offers advice on campus life (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this book, the authors first identify the "educational slogans" that often mark Christian higher educationó"All truth is God's truth," "Integration of Faith and Learning," "Holistic Education," and "The Personal Touch," for example...read more

Product Description: How well do Coalition colleges serve ethnic-minorities? This new book is designed to help Christian colleges look seriously and realistically at this important question with an eye toward action and change. With the combined experience of 125 years at Coalition member institutions, twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines thoughtfully address the issues of ethnic-minority students and faculty at Christian colleges...read more