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Realizing our intentions : a guide for churches and colleges with distinctive missions / Albert J. Meyer.

By: Publisher: Abilene, Tex. : Abilene Christian University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780891128137 (electronic bk.)
  • 0891128131 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Realizing our intentionsDDC classification:
  • 070.92 22
LOC classification:
  • LC383 .M46 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Longer-term trends -- Recent developments -- Secularization -- Organizational dynamics -- Generalizations from experience -- The recent past and the present situation -- Curriculum: a different "what?" -- Instruction: a different "how?" -- Why might some churches want schools that are different? -- Intentional "secularization" -- Diversity, pluralism, and community -- Academic freedom -- Faculty teams for distinctive missions -- A student peer environment that furthers the mission -- Missions that guide decision-making -- Trustees that hold in trust the long-term future -- Presidents who implement the long-term mission -- Churches that want schools with a difference -- Intervening in the system -- Epilogue: what are the prospects?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-28/7).

Longer-term trends -- Recent developments -- Secularization -- Organizational dynamics -- Generalizations from experience -- The recent past and the present situation -- Curriculum: a different "what?" -- Instruction: a different "how?" -- Why might some churches want schools that are different? -- Intentional "secularization" -- Diversity, pluralism, and community -- Academic freedom -- Faculty teams for distinctive missions -- A student peer environment that furthers the mission -- Missions that guide decision-making -- Trustees that hold in trust the long-term future -- Presidents who implement the long-term mission -- Churches that want schools with a difference -- Intervening in the system -- Epilogue: what are the prospects?

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