Realizing our intentions : a guide for churches and colleges with distinctive missions /
Albert J. Meyer.
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
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?
Church and college--United States. Christian universities and colleges--Administration.--United States Christian universities and colleges--Administration. Church and college. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism