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markets. For example, think of Amazon’s creation of Amazon Web Services (AWS), its cloud server, which was outside its orig- inal business model of selling books and Building the Future other products. In higher education, our institutions Embedding Innovation in Your have been successful at incremental and Campus Identity adjacent innovations that will lead or have created new revenue or efficiencies. Take a moment with your senior campus leaders to mark your success so far. Ask THE WORD “INNOVATION” conjures up images of a new and bet- the innovations of tomorrow will include air taxis, and record the answers to this question: ter future. The pandemic allowed us to witness innovation firsthand, quantum computing through an open cloud system, Since the pandemic, what incremental or As the ways we connect with coworkers, customers, families, and friends continue to whether in vaccines created in record time or in shifting our own robotic cargo unloading, real-time data making work adjacent innovations has our institution change, CCCU institutions have a unique opportunity to train their leaders to sustain a culture of campus innovation. campuses’ ability to be online, in-person (while still meeting pan- more efficient, a new generation of control system adopted that have generated new revenue, demic guidelines), or a hybrid of both. Disruption caused by disease, technology, 3D-printed engine parts, and machine new efficiencies, or the potential for both? emergencies, or disasters often fuels innovation and invention. Ex- learning to fight cyber-attacks. What opportunities You will be encouraged. 8. Managers are not trained to be innovation leaders. periencing hardship also spurs human beings to utilize adversity for for our students! 9. Managers immediately look for flaws in new ideas rather than positive change. FACING THE INHIBITORS OF tease out their potential. We admire and celebrate innovation. We know it when we see it. WHAT DEFINES INNOVATION? INNOVATION 10. We look at opportunities through internal lenses rather than But creating a new future is hard work. That’s why I want to explore Innovation is happening all around us, including on While innovations occurred in the midst of the starting with customers’ needs and problems. types of innovation — and obstacles to achieving it — before laying our campuses. How do we keep up the momentum pandemic’s disruption, an innovation culture must How did you score? Is there is room for improvement? What are out a road map for creating and maintaining an innovative culture that practical next steps? and implementation to make innovation our culture continue and grow. Higher education will con- I think will be vitally necessary for Christian higher education. of the future? The Center for Creative Leadership has tinue to feel disruption even after the pandemic BUILDING A LASTING CULTURE OF INNOVATION drawn a helpful distinction between creativity and finally ends, and that disruption must be used to LOOKING TO THE PAST FOR INSPIRATION innovation: “Creativity is the ability to generate nov- fuel further innovation. As the People Matters ar- The statements themselves create the guide to new behavior. Create ticle suggests, organizations need to go from “graz- On its website, the History Channel has an article exploring 11 of the el and useful ideas, while innovation is a successful within each department, or within the university, a team whose focus ing” around innovation to creating an intentional, greatest innovations that changed the world. Here are just a few: implementation of creative ideas.” is developing long-term strategic ideas to implement. Do not allow fear integrated, and optimized culture for innovation. • The printing press. Communicate to the masses and you change Is all innovation the same? In 2018, People Matters of undermining current ways of doing things to prevent the surfacing How do we make innovation the DNA of Chris- the world. We have seen this most recently in the blessing and curse identified three different kinds of innovation: incre- of new ideas. Reward people who develop and implement an innovative tian higher education? idea. Plan regular retreat time for groups to shift from an “efficiency that is the Internet. mental, adjacent, and transformational. Incremental Harvard Business Review identified 10 common focus” of daily routines to a “fresh thinking” focus. • Steel. Steel fueled the industrial revolution and built modern cities. innovation is improving something we already do — innovation inhibitors that I suggest would be valu- Do not allow critique and criticism to dominate idea sessions. • The electric light. All it takes is a power outage for us to remem- certainly important to pursue. Adjacent innovation is able to review with your leadership teams, deans, and One idea is to create a process where red cards and green cards ber a less workable, bygone era. The innovation of wires to power adding something new to something we do that is department chairs. For each one, think about the ex- are used during meetings. Anyone in a meeting can good-naturedly early light bulbs led to electrical wiring paving the way for all other already core to our business — like online education tent to which it applies to your campus (never? some- raise a red card on another team member who names the flaws in a electrical innovations. in addition to on-campus education. Transforma- times? often?): new idea before naming the potential. Raise the green cards to af- • Antibiotics. This changed medicine forever. Imagining a world tional innovation can be disruptive and involves the 1. Our focus on short-term results drives out firm suggested ideas. without antibiotics is easier in this moment because of the pan- creation of entirely new businesses that cater to new ideas that take longer to mature. Get your students involved. Create student innovation task forces. demic. Clearly, the ability to fight infec- 2. Fear of cannibalizing current business pre- Ask your students for their ideas as your loyal, engaged, and self-in- tion has improved the human condition Innovations in technology have transformed life as we know it, and continuing vents investment in new areas. terested “customers.” Form small groups of innovative students who without measure. technological advancements mean there is plenty of opportunity for CCCU graduates to impact this important field. 3. Most of our resources are devoted to day-to- will regularly be an advisory group to departments and administra- “We can do it,” I think as I read this list. day business so that few remain for innova- tive leaders. Ask students to think about how their needs could be But it also makes me wonder: What will be tive prospects. met better by the university. some of the innovations of the future that our 4. Innovation is someone else’s job and not Finally, look outside your campus. Identify the most innovative students need to be prepared for through their part of everyone’s responsibilities. companies in your immediate locale or from your board of trustees time studying at our colleges and universities? 5. Our efficiency focus eliminates free time for and do informational interviews on how they have created innovative For that, I found the insights from Hon- fresh thinking. cultures in their organizations. Perhaps imbed some of your leaders eywell to be helpful. You might recognize the 6. We do not have a standard process to nur- into business environments to influence habits and future thinking. Honeywell name from your thermostat, but ture the development of new ideas. The future of Christian higher education depends on the attitude it is also a premier innovation laboratory. The 7. Incentives are geared towards maximizing “We can do it.” We have done it, and with God’s guidance and grace, leaders at Honeywell recently predicted that today’s business and reducing risk. we will.

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CCCU AND SCIO RECEIVE $2.1 MILLION TO FIVE INSTITUTIONS SUPPORT STEM RESEARCH JOIN THE CCCU

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Higher Education THE CCCU AND SCHOLARSHIP & CHRISTIANITY IN OXFORD (SCIO), the CCCU’s U.K. subsidiary, have received a $2.1 million grant from the John Help higher education adapt to changing times Templeton Foundation to launch Supporting Structures, a project designed to support and enhance STEM research among faculty and students on CCCU campuses. An ad- and influence the next generation of leaders. ditional $256,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust expands the reach of the project, enabling the project to offer awards to a total of nine CCCU institutions, who will be selected later this spring. Ndola, Zambia This multi-faceted project will incorporate training, support, and events for faculty members, students, senior administrators, and the communities that feed into and sup- Ph.D. in Higher Education Ed.D. in Higher port these institutions. It will expand research opportunities among existing, pre-tenure faculty members in the STEM fields and offer training to deepen their understanding of For faculty and administrators interested Education Leadership and engagement with issues pertaining to science, religion, and society. Additionally, the in conducting original research to shape Designed for student affairs professionals project has a specific fund dedicated to help participating campuses enhance diversity institutional policies and practices to further looking to provide effective, transformational among their STEM faculty. The project will also bolster unique partnerships between CCCU institutions and the impact of higher education. leadership in a rapidly changing higher major research institutions and provide funding for campuses to establish student clubs Taichung City, Taiwan education landscape. and support undergraduate student researchers in STEM fields, as well as provide oppor- tunities for administrators and other campus-connected communities to engage science, religion, and society issues.

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THE LATEST UPDATES FROM CAPITOL HILL CCCU STATEMENT ON FAIRNESS FOR ALL AND THE EQUALITY ACT THE CCCU’S ADVOCACY WORK promotes and protects its institutions’ unique position as Christ-centered, nonprofit institutions of higher education that are often in the crosshairs of a variety of issues affecting higher education and nonprofit -or IN ADDRESSING THE CULTURAL tension surrounding multifaith and pluralistic world of 21st century America. For ganizations, and/or challenges to religious character and convictions. In 2020, the CCCU signed onto 109 letters and nine amicus religious freedom and LGBT rights, the CCCU advocates for a faith-based higher education specifically, the Equality Act would briefs supporting our major advocacy issues. As of February 15, 2021, we have signed on to 10 letters and one amicus brief. Other balanced legislative approach that preserves religious freedom and restrict student choice in an unprecedented way by preventing highlights of our recent advocacy work include: addresses LGBT civil rights under federal law. middle- and low-income students from being able to take their The CCCU supports the Fairness for All Act, reintroduced by federal student aid to these institutions. Seven out of 10 CCCU Congressman Chris Stewart in the U.S. House of Representatives students receive federal funding, and the withdrawal of financial on February 26, 2021. The bill is both principled and pragmatic: It aid, including Pell grants and federal research grants, would have is principled in providing a clear and demonstrable way for people a disproportionate impact on low-income and first-generation of faith to “love our neighbor” in the civic context, and it is prag- college students, as well as students from racial and ethnic mi- matic in that the bill makes explicit many religious protections nority groups. that are important to a rich and vibrant civil society. Orthodox COVID Relief | The COVID-19 stimulus and omnibus bill Immigration | President Joe Biden issued an executive Christian convictions are central to Christian colleges and univer- LEARN MORE passed by Congress in December 2020 included three ma- order preserving protections for Dreamers under the De- sities, and there must be freedom to practice, teach, and uphold Read our full statement at jor policy victories as well as about $23 billion in funding to ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals guidance within his those convictions without penalty. www.cccu.org/news-updates/fairness-for-all/ higher education. The bill included new FAFSA simplification first days in office. This order reinforces the temporary The Equality Act, as currently drafted, fails to do justice to measures, allowing students to more easily obtain federal status given to undocumented immigrants brought as the rich complexity of moral traditions that are central to the financial aid. It also lifted the 26-year-old ban on Pell grants children and calls the Department of Homeland Security for incarcerated individuals. The CCCU has been a longtime to “preserve and fortify” actions consistent with the law. advocate for better access to education and opportunity Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham also reintro- for those in our prison systems. The bill also included an duced the Dream Act, championing the push for immi- extension of the $300 universal charitable giving deduction gration reform in Congress. We continue to advocate for INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTION SPOTLIGHT: KENYA through the end of 2021, as well as an increase of up to $600 policies that recognize the dignity with which God has deduction to married couples. endowed all people, regardless of their ethnicity, race, or AFRICA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY As of late February, the House Committee on Labor and place of origin. We believe a bipartisan, permanent leg- Education had released a COVID-19 relief bill that would ap- islative solution for Dreamers from Congress is the best Africa International University (AIU) was founded in 1983 by the Association of Evan- propriate nearly $40 billion to public and private higher edu- means to provide a long-term solution for these young gelicals in Africa in Karen, a suburb on the outskirts of Nairobi. Known as the Nairobi cation institutions alike. The CCCU continues to advocate on people and their communities. Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, its goal was to provide training beyond the basic behalf of Christian colleges and universities in order to en- certificate and diploma levels for pastors in the region. Over time, it expanded its program sure equitable treatment between public and private institu- offerings and received a university charter from the Kenyan government in 2011. tions of higher education. Today, AIU continues in its mission to educate Christ-centered leaders for the transfor- mation of God’s people and the world through innovative programs, research, and com- munity engagement. It offers undergraduate, master's, and doctorate degrees in a variety of fields, including biblical studies, theology, missions, business, finance, psychology and counseling, linguistics, interreligious studies, and education. IX Judiciary | The CCCU filed an amicus brief in the case of Fulton v the City of Philadelphia. This case involves Catholic Social Services, a faith-based agency that has been serv- AFRICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY Title IX | The Department of Education released new Ti- ing vulnerable kids for 200 years. But the city of Philadel- tle IX regulations in November 2020, which include “con- phia stopped placing kids with foster parents that partner Founded in 1994 by the Church of the Nazarene, Africa Nazarene University (ANU) was trolled by” language that would affect the religious free- with Catholic Social Services, demanding that the agency the first Nazarene university established outside North America and offered undergradu- doms of our institutions. The language determines if an ate courses in theology and business, as well as a master’s in religion; a year later, it also of- change its religious practices or close. We ask the Court to institution is “controlled by” a religious organization. The fered a bachelor in computer science. ANU has continued to expand its program offerings protect the freedom of faith-affirming foster agencies na- regulation promotes free speech at institutions, ensures and received its university charter from the Kenyan government in 2002. tionwide to maintain their deeply held beliefs while serv- equal treatment of religious student groups, and revises Today, ANU offers 26 academic programs, serving 4,000 students from diverse geo- ing those most in need. discretionary grant programs to specifically include reli- graphical and economic backgrounds. With over a decade of experience in remote and gious institutions. distance learning, ANU conducted its first fully online semester in May 2020 amid the pandemic. About half of the student body is currently enrolled in online learning, which will be a defining element of education delivery at ANU going forward. In September LEARN MORE 2020, ANU signed a partnership with Coursera that further expanded its online educa- For more information about the CCCU's tion offerings, providing students with a transformative online learning experience.

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16 CCCU CAMPUSES AWARDED GRANTS FOR INTERFAITH WORK

THE CCCU AND INTERFAITH YOUTH CORE (IFYC) have awarded nearly $20,000 in grants to 16 CCCU campuses to integrate a newly developed online curriculum, “Christian Leadership in a Multifaith World,” into existing coursework and student leadership develop- ment programs. Together, the CCCU and IFYC are committed to el- evating the importance of religious literacy and bridge- building. Through generous support from The Arthur Vin- ing Davis Foundations, the CCCU and IFYC developed an online curriculum to explore the foundation for interfaith engagement, build students’ religious literacy, and equip students to lead bridge-building activities in their com-

munities. Individual $1,000 grants were awarded to faculty A new curriculum developed by CCCU and Interfaith Youth Core aims to and staff on CCCU campuses to use the pilot curriculum build students' religious literacy and equip them to lead bridge-building activities in their communities. with their students and offer feedback to the CCCU and IFYC on ways to strengthen the activities for future use. LEARN MORE For more information, visit ifyc.org/grants/cccu. Mat Schramm

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How do students on CCCU campuses rate their institution’s pandemic response? As part of the CCCU’s DOING WELL IN COLLEGE Collaborative Assessment Project, CCCU campuses administered the “Thriving Quotient” survey in Fall 28% 2020 to more than 4,800 students across the U.S. and Canada, focusing on the support, protection, and A little more 34% 24% than/About communication students felt they received from their institution in the midst of COVID-19. Always/Most A little more half the time of the time than/About half the time 22% 29% HEALTH AND SAFETY Sometimes Always/Most 21% of the time Rarely/ OVERALL, MY INSTRUCTORS HAVE THE STAFF AND ADMINISTRATION AT THIS INSTITUTION Never SHOWN CARE AND CONCERN FOR ME AS HAVE DONE A GOOD JOB PROTECTING STUDENTS FROM THEY RESPOND TO COVID-19. THE NEGATIVE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF COVID-19. 22% 20% 72% 17% Sometimes % Rarely/ 15 Never ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE Somewhat 5% % 78 Agree 6% Agree or Strongly 4% I FEEL STRESSED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES Agree Somewhat % OF COVID-19. 15 11% Disagree PAYING BILLS 36% 19% 14% 31% 3% 28% Always/Most A little more 20% of the time Disagree or than/About Agree or Somewhat Always/Most A little more Strongly half the time Strongly Agree Agree of the time than/About Disagree half the time Somewhat Disagree or 59% Disagree Strongly Disagree $ 15%

32% 20% Sometimes SUPPORT AND INFORMATION Sometimes Rarely/ Rarely/ Never Never THE SUPPORT YOU ARE GETTING FROM THIS THE COMMUNICATION YOU ARE GETTING FROM THIS INSTITUTION TO HELP YOU NAVIGATE THE INSTITUTION ABOUT ITS ONGOING RESPONSE TO CHALLENGES OF THIS PANDEMIC. THIS PANDEMIC.

ACCESSING AND USING THE 64% 17% 9% 10% SECURE HOUSING 64% 19% TECHNOLOGY NEEDED FOR CLASSES Somewhat 5% Very Satisfied % Satisfied 11 A little more than/ or Satisfied THE INFORMATION YOU ARE GETTING ABOUT HOW Always/Most About half the time 16% 16% 20% 48% CHANGES AT THIS INSTITUTION IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 of the time 8% WILL IMPACT YOUR ABILITY TO PAY FOR COLLEGE. % Somewhat 6 Always/Most A little more than/ Sometimes Dissatisfied of the time About half the time 44% 24% 15% 17% Sometimes Rarely/Never Very Satisfied Somewhat 9% or Satisfied Satisfied Dissatisfied or Very Dissatisfied Somewhat Dissatisfied or Dissatisfied Very Dissatisfied 78% Rarely/ Never

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ensued was all about how this Muslim friend used to sneak to church when Young Adults Are she was younger, and had at some point Ready to Re-examine prayed the sinner’s prayer, yet stopped Theological Exclusivity going when her devout Muslim mother discovered her secret and forbade her EVANGELICAL to ever go again. Imagine our surprise in a Multifaith World when she wanted to talk about Jesus the PURITY CULTURE remainder of the evening! What’s Love Got to Do with It? So what does this have to do with Christian higher education, and specif- ically CCCU campuses? Well it turns out learning and engaging in interfaith ON JANUARY 6, 2021, during the height of the work is not only good for society but COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans and others It turns out that can also reinforce a student’s Christian around the world watched in shock and horror as a group of faith. According to the 2020 Interfaith domestic terrorists hijacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt learning and engaging Diversity Experiences and Attitudes to overturn the U.S. election results and harm members of Longitudinal Survey (IDEALS), stu- Congress. Emboldened by conspiracy theories, hate-filled in interfaith work is not dents who engaged in interfaith work Rachel Joy Welcher rhetoric, and repeated lies, they sought to take back “their were not only better prepared to en- is a columnist and editor America” from politicians and people who did not look like only good for society gage a multifaith and diverse society, at Fathom magazine. Her them, vote like them, or believe like them. but interfaith work reinforced their but can also reinforce a writing has appeared in What was particularly alarming to many was the fact own religious values. In addition, the The Gospel Coalition, Mere that these self-identified “patriots” flew signs that read “Je- Association of American Colleges & student's Christian faith. Orthodoxy, Relevant, and The sus Saves” alongside hanging nooses, swastikas, and other Universities found that college gradu- symbols of hate for “others” who they perceived as adding to ates who have the ability to understand Englewood Review of Books. the demise of “their” country. Never once did they seem to and work with people who are different stop to look at themselves and the irony of their actions in street evangelism and witnessing countless comrades do the from themselves are more marketable relationship to their professed commitment to law and order. same. Yet I know that America is not a country with one to employers because employers want “As an educator of college students for more than three As an African American woman, devout Christian, and self- religion. In fact, our U.S. Constitution says, “Congress shall to hire culturally competent staff. decades, I understand well the difficulties in helping young identified peacemaker, I pondered in that moment how the make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or pro- As Christian educators and leaders, people sort through the mixed messages from both the name of Christ had been both dirtied by the stains of venom hibiting the free exercise thereof.” Simply put, our nation was not only can we help reinforce our stu- church and the culture regarding sex. . . . Talking Back to Purity and hatred and showcased to non-Christians in a way that founded on the freedom of religion, and while I would like dents’ Christian faith and make them Culture is a book I will recommend over and over, not only to violently misrepresented Scripture. everyone to know the love of Christ, not everyone will. more professionally marketable, but my students but to all who are striving toward a more holistic As I reflect on that infamous day, I think about the im- As difficult as this Scripture-based fact is to swallow, ev- through interfaith engagement we can and biblical understanding of human sexuality.” portant work that the CCCU does in bringing people from eryone is still my neighbor, and I am called to share God’s help them become more culturally as- different backgrounds and perspectives together. Recently, love with them. For Christians, loving our neighbors as our- tute and religiously savvy and give them Karen Swallow Prior , author of Fierce Convictions the CCCU was invited to collaborate with Interfaith Youth selves is not simply a biblical suggestion or a humanitarian the tools to build lives that respect dif- Core on a grant called “Christian Leadership in a Multifaith nicety but rather a clear commandment and evidence that ferences while radiating the light of World.” As an ordained minister, I first pondered if this one is a Christian. So the answer to Tina Turner’s hit song Christ to a world that desperately needs would be in contradiction to my faith. Would working on “What’s love got to do with it?” is “everything!” it. Shalom! a project promoting religious diversity be equated with pro- In 2019, while I was completing a Fulbright in Ethiopia, KIMBERLY BATTLE-WALTERS DENU moting theological universalism and the notion that all roads my family and I were invited to the home of a former class- is the CCCU’s vice president for educa- lead to heaven? Or could this project invite my theological mate of my husband’s for Ramadan. Ramadan is the most tional programs. exclusivity to sit at the table? I was pleasantly surprised that sacred holiday for Muslims, and although she and her fam- the latter was true. ily knew we were devout Christians, they invited us to break LEARN MORE See, I am convinced that Jesus is the only way by which their fast with them by enjoying Iftar, the meal eaten by Mus- For more information one can be saved. I wholeheartedly seek to fulfill both the lims after sunset during Ramadan. For some Christians, this and to apply, visit Great Commission (sharing the Gospel) and the Greatest might have been taboo, but we knew this was a high honor ifyc.org/grants/cccu. Commandment (loving God and my neighbor). I have years and, with cultural humility and a healthy dose of curiosity (at

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publishing from payment at point of use (e.g., buying journal subscriptions) Let Your to payment at the point of submission by the author (known as subventions, Values Drive Your Systems Not Silos: i.e., required payments, typically rang- ing between $500-$2000, but as much as $11,000). Originating in Europe but Leadership Pandemic Resourcefulness now emerging in North America, this approach might work for large institu- God Is More Concerned with Your tions (though that is an open question), Character Than Your Success but it endangers smaller colleges’ ability THE HIGHER EDUCATION landscape can sometimes The first response limits opportunities and perhaps to attract bright, young scholars if they resemble farmland: full of silos. Institutional silos develop wit- undermines enrollment. The second response — if the CCCU lack funding for subventions. tingly or unwittingly for any number of reasons, like a desire to faculty is not part of the research — means students may not There are systemic approaches that lighten the load for faculty. Christian colleges and universities witness and work alongside deeply engaged Christians doing could assist in solving this challenge, such may also be more prone to silos; after all, church history is full top-tier research. The third strategy limits the quality of the as developing a central matching fund for of examples of a predilection to separate and build silos. experience. It can imply a type of mediocrity, not because the subventions. But for the moment, let me But if silos are endemic to academia, they can also under- faculty are mediocre but because they are advising outside of point to a pandemic-created opportunity. mine research. Academic silos tend to contain and constrain their area of competence. Institutionally, we are not setting Open Access publishing has expanded to thought rather than expand or enhance it. Research requires them up to succeed. All three responses may also convey that the meet access needs for students by making imagination, creativity, the ability to wonder and wander over students cannot expect significantly informed research guidance many pay-to-use works freely available. new terrain, and the willingness to break outside of known from their faculty. This can be profoundly discouraging for Thus, a vast quantity of freely available, boundaries to ask fresh and enriching questions. It also re- faculty morale, unduly limiting to students, and damaging to serious research material is accessible quires access to diverse resources. Silos inhibit both individual long-term institutional health. electronically. researchers, access to resources, and the formation of a rich, Thinking like a system provides a solution. Online tools pres- However, navigating Open Access productive, and effective research culture on a campus. ent the medium for sharing resources by harnessing faculty from — both publishing and using it — is Treating CCCU institutions only as like-minded peers and across CCCU membership to advise undergraduate researchers complex; so complex, in fact, that major not as full collaborators can unduly limit us. In North Amer- within their areas of competence. For example, a student at Col- university libraries have dedicated library ica, the CCCU’s network of full- and part-time faculty is over lege A wishes to engage in research for which the faculty in the staff with specialist knowledge in order 28,500 across a range of disciplines. Already, the CCCU broad- department lack particular competence. Acting within a broad to support faculty and students engaging ens our collective resources through opportunities like Net- CCCU system, a faculty member with the specific scholarly Open Access. Many small institutions working Grants for Christian Scholars and Supporting Struc- competence from College B can step in to offer additional, lim- cannot do this alone, but by sharing li- tures. Perhaps we can expand this further and together embrace ited, informal research advising online (with the student’s col- brary staff expertise across multiple cam- “Rich Stearns turns the world’s version of an opportunity to collaborate and share resources. New habits lege providing needed oversight, faculty of record, etc.). puses, they might accomplish more. On- and technologies mastered amid COVID-19 make systemic re- Developing such a response requires an expansive view from line meetings make this approach viable. leadership upside down to posit that who sponses plausible and imaginable, as these two examples show. faculty and administrators to recognize the availability of aca- Some may recall Carl Henry’s vision you are is more important that what you demic expertise outside their institution, a willingness to draw in the 1950s to create a major Christian achieve. . . . If you are a person who leads Systemic Support of Undergraduate Research upon outside advisors, and enabling one’s own faculty to serve university. His efforts did not pan out. others. We can build a system for communicating and “trad- Undergraduate research is important: It attracts and forms stu- But we can now do something on a larger teams in the corporate or nonprofi t world, ing” faculty competencies and student research needs. dents, makes curricula exciting, and offers lasting impact for scale with the tools, technology, and an a new graduate or new employee, a pastor This isn’t merely a hypothetical example. A group of honors both students and institutions. Many CCCU programs incor- institution — the CCCU itself — that program directors and deans along with Scholarship & Christi- or professor, this book is for you.” porate these opportunities, but their efforts can be hampered he lacked. We can provide the impact anity in Oxford (SCIO), the CCCU’s Oxford-based subsidiary, by the limits of size and scope. and benefits a major Christian university have ongoing discussions developing a project — URN, Under- SHIRLEYHOOGSTRA Undergraduate research depends on scholars offering their might offer by breaking down silos and graduate Research Network — that seeks to offer a way to fairly research competence to train students. Large universities can working together as a system. In doing CCCU president so, we can profoundly enrich our institu- support a wide variety of student interests. Most CCCU in- balance concerns and resources. tions’ research cultures and expand our stitutions, however, are not large. Thus their faculty’s range Open Access, Information Specialists, and a range of offerings and impact. of expertise is smaller, presenting hard choices in developing Library System student research opportunities: offer only a few; send students STANLEY P. ROSENBERG is the CCCU’s elsewhere for specific opportunities; or press faculty to provide Open Access poses substantial opportunity and danger for vice president for research and scholar- ship and the executive director of SCIO: guidance outside of their particular competence. small colleges as it changes the economic model of journal Jonathan Kirkpatrick shop ivpress.com Scholarship & Christianity in Oxford, the CCCU’s U.K. subsidiary.

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Lead Like it Matters to God pickup ad, CCCU Advance, kew8ge.indd 1 2/22/21 8:52 AM ON DIVERSITY | WALTER KIM

The labors of racial justice and reconciliation persist, the research we pursue, educators should continue the hard work of and will always persist, as long as we live in a fallen peeling back layers of presuppositions to develop curriculum from world. But this work has a conclusion, where distinc- different cultural perspectives that refract more fully the marvelous Far We Have Come; tions are preserved but divisions resolved: “And they creativity of our God who is three yet one. sang a new song: You are worthy to take the scroll and As I consider the needs of the moment and the work of CCCU to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your institutions, the words of philosopher and diplomat Charles Malik blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and come to mind. His distinguished contributions to human rights con- Further We Must Go language and people and nation. You have made them joined a bright theological imagination, understanding of justice, and to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they commitment to societal transformation. As his faith confronted the will reign on the earth” (Rev 5:9-10). worst ills in the world with a hope rooted in another world, he insisted Christian education plays a vital role in the earthly that “the university is a clear-cut fulcrum with which to move the Our new government is founded upon exactly the THE BOSTON COMMON is the most familiar parcel of America outworking of that heavenly vision. College campuses world. More potently than by any other means, change the university to me. For 20 years, I walked across this park thousands of times for my opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- increasingly draw people from many racial and ethnic and you change the world.” Whether you are a student, faculty, staff commute to work. I sat on its benches for lunches, and I watched its trees stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is backgrounds and provide rich opportunities for rela- or administrator, may God work in and through you to further his cycle through their beautiful array of colors. This place was home. Then, not equal to the white man; that slavery subordina- tional proximity. Here is a living laboratory to work out work in this world to his glory. one day, someone yelled a racial slur at me. tion to the superior race is his natural and normal the relational dimension of the Gospel — in crossing WALTER KIM is president of the National Association of Evangelicals Suddenly, I was a stranger in a strange land. condition. This, our new government, is the first, racial boundaries, in promoting a biblical vision for jus- and pastor for leadership at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottes- What transpired at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 made millions feel in the history of the world, based upon this great tice and reconciliation, and in developing the solidarity ville, Virginia. His Ph.D. from Harvard University was in Near Eastern like strangers in a strange land. How could this happen in America? physical, philosophical, and moral truth. necessary for racial healing. But this work must be in- Languages and Civilizations. Many factors complicate the assessment of that day, but the challenges This was not simply a matter of individual racism; Ste- tentional and not merely incidental. Since our cultural of race are involved. We have certainly come a long way in our national phens was seeking to institutionalize image inequality. background strongly shapes the questions we ask and journey toward justice; instead of the Chinese Exclusion Act, for exam- Pastors joined politicians in this repugnant vi- ple, we have the Civil Rights Act. Yet the presence of white supremacist sion. Robert Dabney was one of the most significant groups and the pictures of nooses show there is a long way yet to go. The Southern American theologians of the 19th century. shocking juxtaposition of waving Confederate and “Jesus Saves” flags He was a religious and civic leader of great influence, tore scabs off national wounds that had never properly healed. serving as a Confederate chaplain and chief of staff Interested in learning more? Many discussions about race begin with our equality before God to General Stonewall Jackson. After the Civil War as bearers of his image (Gen 1:26-27). But the imago Dei is more than ended, Dabney addressed the Synod of the Presbyte- a premise. It is a prophetic challenge to power. In the cultural context rian Church in Virginia about the issue of ordaining of antiquity, the notion of a god’s image was not democratically ap- the freed African Americans for church leadership. plied but rather royally exploited. The king alone bore the image of His argument is clearly theological: “An insuperable God, as we read in a statement about the Neo-Assyrian King Esar- difference of race, made by God and not by man, haddon (7th century BC): “A free man is as the shadow of God, the and of character and of social condition, makes it slave is as the shadow of the free man; but the king, he is like unto the plainly impossible for a black man to teach and rule very image of God” (emphasis mine). The king concentrated power by white Christians to edification.” Although the Gos- conflating religion and royal ideology in literature, monuments, and pel was undoubtedly proclaimed by Dabney, it was Visit the CCCU’s new database of cultural symbols. Scripture challenges this potent system of image in- not comprehensively applied. While justification by equality and applies the royal language of image to everyone. faith may have been exposited, justice was denied to What occurred in ancient Mesopotamia recurs throughout hu- Black brothers and sisters. man history. The dominance of a group can produce an imbalance in Despite the church’s uneven, and at times lamen- Racial & Ethnic what is viewed as the human ideal and can subsequently shape social table, work and witness, Christ remains our hope. And institutions and cultural practices. Such values are often extremely the Gospel indeed changes lives in precisely the areas of powerful because they are implicitly embraced and reinforced. Race our nation’s greatest plights. On the day of Pentecost, the Diversity Resources has become a defining feature of normativity, whether it is idealized Holy Spirit gave birth to a multiethnic people who had beauty, intelligence, or productivity. a common language and life in Christ (Acts 2:1-12). The We see this in our own history as well. As America marched to- apostle Paul then applies the image of God to the hostili- for the Christian higher education community. ward the Civil War, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Ste- ties of social conflicts and exhorts us to “put on the new phens delivered his “Cornerstone” speech on March 21, 1861. In his self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image justification of secession, Stephens repudiated the idea that African of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circum- www.cccu.org/diversity slavery was “wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.” He cised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or

argued with vigor to the contrary: free, but Christ is all, and is in all” (Col 3:10-11). Kim of Walter courtesy Photo

18 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 19 CAMPUS STORIES OF INNOVATION

A look at how campuses have met the needs of their students amidst a global pandemic.

AS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has continued on for more than a year, a new rhythm of campus life has developed. Administrators, faculty, and staff at Christian colleges and universities rose to the challenge of adapting life on a college campus to a new reality. In a far-from-typical year, CCCU institutions' innovative responses allowed them to help their students successfully and safely complete their coursework and other activities. The following is a collection of reflections from campus leaders across the country on the innovations they used to live out their campus missions in a unique time. Illustration by Katryn Ferrance / Source Image: AdobeStock / Source Katryn Ferrance by Illustration

20 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 21 COVID-19 TESTING Preventing the spread of COVID-19 has been key to keeping campuses GREENVILLE UNIVERSITY open and safe. Here's how some CCCU institutions have tackled testing. (GREENVILLE, IL)

THANKS TO THEIR TESTING regi- men, Greenville University was not only able to successfully welcome students back for an in-person fall semester; they were able to allow students who wanted to return for the final two weeks after Thanksgiving to do so as well. A partnership with the University of Illinois Systems SHIELD program enabled GU to test all students, faculty, and staff every week — and even twice a week if needed — using rapid- response saliva testing. Frequent testing on the campus revealed more positive cases in an age category that is largely asymptomatic. More SAMFORD UNIVERSITY than 20,000 such tests were administered over (BIRMINGHAM, AL) the course of the fall semester; by the beginning of December, the university had logged 94 total IN DEVELOPING THEIR testing unique positive cases, with 36 of those cases be- Belhaven University's on-campus COVID-19 testing center utilizes plan for the academic year, Samford faculty and staff to assist in coordinating gathering samples and ing asymptomatic. University was able to utilize a resource conducting lab tests on thousands of people each week. In addition to testing, GU also utilized con- already on campus: the faculty and stu- tact tracing and quarantining practices to limit dents at the university’s McWhorter BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY the spread of the virus. The university plans to School of Pharmacy. continue its rigorous testing regimen through To assist its work in tracking the (JACKSON, MS) the remainder of the academic year. spread of the virus, the university launched a clinic to conduct focused BELHAVEN UNIVERSITY Greenville University administered more than 20,000 built an on-campus COV- rapid-response saliva tests over the fall 2020 semester, testing by identifying common factors

ID-19 testing center in order to track asymptomatic students, enabling students to stay in person the entire semester, University Maci Bonacorsi/Greenville by Photo University; of Belhaven courtesy Photo among positive cases, such as an event including after Thanksgiving break. faculty, and staff. Opened in early 2021, the center utilizes or location, and then identifying others the expertise of the university’s professors in the chemistry who might share that common factor and biology departments, who expanded their roles in order and testing them for COVID-19. to coordinate, test, and conduct labs on thousands of people The program is under the leadership of each week. the dean of Samford’s pharmacy school, Belhaven was the only university in Mississippi to build a and the tests are overseen by two faculty dedicated testing center. Using saliva samples, the center is able members who are supported by Doctor to test hundreds of people daily and have results back in just a of Pharmacy students. Thus, the students few hours. This has better enabled the entire campus commu- gain valuable experience in lab procedure Top: Samford University was able to utilize the knowledge and training of both nity to be able to have in-person classes or participate in other and conducting tests, as well as experi- faculty and students at the university's McWhorter School of Pharmacy to help in-person work and activities. encing firsthand the connection between track the spread of COVID-19 and identify potential common factors to better conduct contact tracing for the campus community. The center also utilizes the assistance of student workers. Not their studies in the pharmaceutical pro- Bottom: A sign directs members of the Samford University community to a testing only do they help the campus track any asymptomatic spread of gram and the broader work of public location on campus. the virus, but they are also able to gain valuable experience for health — even as they help keep the future work in medicine and public health. Samford community healthy and safe. Photo courtesy of Samford University of Samford courtesy Photo AdobeStock; Photo courtesy of Joseph Jones courtesy Photo AdobeStock;

22 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 23 in order to be successful. We’ve invested COACHING STUDENTS in emerging technologies and listened to USING A RICH TRADITION OF TECHNOLOGY TOWARD SUCCESS the needs of our students, communities, TO SHAPE A PROMISING FUTURE and churches. Through this investment, IN A DIFFICULT YEAR we’ve seen community built and BY ANGIE RICHEY students persevere through the hardest of BY SHARRA HYNES LIFE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY challenges. May the lessons learned help BAYLOR UNIVERSITY us lean into innovation and creativity in order to equip more students who will AS COVID-19 continues to reshape logged back on for classes, 150 on- make a positive difference in the world. everyday life, industries around the world campus courses had been moved online, To this end, and to continue to To help its students succeed in a difficult year, Baylor University's student life and student success teams utilized a are finding themselves at the crossroads a team of success coaches was paired develop leaders equipped to tackle the network of support from across campus to assist them in their work. of tradition and innovation, which can be with every student, and the 500-seat new technological realities of business a perilous tightrope. For Life Pacific Uni- Simonson Chapel had been converted and ministry emerging from the crisis, versity, this has been an opportunity to into a temporary digital media studio WHEN THE COVID-19 pandemic home, financial challenges, health con- Key to Success: the university recently announced the write the next chapter of our nearly 100- for streaming chapels and classes and for rocked higher education, Baylor Uni- cerns, and other stressors). Mission-Driven Support “Media Campaign for Student Success,” year legacy of innovation. recording webinars, podcasts, and events. versity recognized that student retention By April 6, 2020, more than 9,000 Important to the program’s overall suc- designed to provide students with Founded by Aimee Semple McPherson The reward was seeing the LPU and success are everyone's responsibility, students were receiving a weekly email, cess was the support of the faculty and access to the technologies and resources in 1923, the university has reinvented community interacting with each other especially in a pandemic. Even as nation- a text message, or both from their “Bear staff, especially those 390 employees necessary for leadership success in the itself multiple times over the past century (virtually) as if they were all together in Care Coach,” a specific Baylor employee who became volunteers and dedicated modern marketplace. The campaign al trends at private institutions showed on its journey from being a Bible training one room. Students and guests joined via whom students could contact if they the time to go through training and en- includes the creation of the Aimee student retention declining, the reten- institute to the international university Zoom or YouTube LIVE, and speakers needed information, care, or assurance gage meaningfully with students in their Semple McPherson (ASM) Digital Media tion rate among all Baylor undergradu- system it is today. The first president was had the ability to see their faces and of Baylor’s commitment to support care. It was so affirming to know that Center, an expansion of the temporary ates from fall 2019 to fall 2020 jumped an innovator who developed a global engage with them through a chat feature them. The average volunteer Bear Care I was surrounded by colleagues who all studio assembled to meet needs during nearly one full point to 92.5%, the high- audience through her use of emerging thanks to larger monitors that are visible Coach corresponded with 20 students, shared the same mission. This employee the pandemic. As digital communication est ever for the university. radio and film technologies. She was the from the stage. This opportunity for two- but some coaches engaged up to 80. Our is clearly the language of our future, this We correlate some of our success to commitment to mission is an excellent first female evangelist on the radio, using a way engagement was fundamental for most vulnerable students were paired focus allows LPU students to continue to the fact that a large group of our stu- tool to leverage in supporting students. station that she owned, and she purposely producing high-quality, virtual events in with our care team services employees in collaborate with the media marketplace dents had consistent, individualized Also important was the fact that the integrated film and theatrical elements an attempt to mirror the connection that student life, who could use their roles to throughout Southern California, across outreach every week through Baylor’s Bear Care program had executive-level into her sermons because she knew that is found in-person. support these students more intention- the nation, and around the globe, writing highly successful Bear Care program. support from its inception. As other dramatic media was the language of the Reflecting on the dramatic, sudden ally through the spring and summer. As the next chapter in LPU’s legacy of Our goal was simple: Increase com- campuses consider student retention future. She used any and every technology shift into a digital experience, I believe the pandemic continued, we knew Bay- developing leaders who serve God in the munication with students who were and success initiatives, having that sup- available to her in order to keep the Gospel that the changes made will help LPU lor would be welcoming a group of new Church, the workplace, and the world. vulnerable or in distress because of the port and encouragement from the very accessible in any situation. reach more people all over the world students in the summer remotely, so we pandemic and its accompanying re- top is critical. When COVID-19 forced LPU to for decades to come. We’ve all become ANGIE RICHEY is the president of Life added those students to the program — Pacific University (San Dimas, California) Because of the Bear Care program’s send students home for an extended strictions, and then support their needs. more flexible, adaptable, and aware of and a licensed therapist. bringing our total of students supported success, our student life and student suc- With no additional funds or staff, we spring break in March 2020, our staff and the hurdles our students must overcome to more than 10,000. cess teams can now leverage new ways focused on using existing resources, in- faculty turned to our founder’s legacy for Baylor was fortunate to be able to re- to effectively support students, includ- cluding employees from across the uni- inspiration as we transitioned the entire open for face-to-face instruction in the ing a successful approach to identify on-campus experience online in just versity who were working remotely and fall, but with ongoing uncertainties re- students in need and the knowledge that under two weeks. By the time students felt called to assist our students. lated to COVID-19, we kept our weekly we can call on other staff when needed. interaction active through the 12th day RIGHT: Daniel Fernandez, Life Pacific University campus chaplain, welcomes Program Creation In a time of great stress, this program al- students to a virtual chapel. BELOW: LPU President Angie Richey has a of classes. We were intentional about lowed Baylor to live out its mission to conversation with Marcus Robinson, LPU's director of diversity, equity, and First, we identified students in need of inclusion, in LPU's temporary digital media studio. creating a smooth handoff from the pro- educate leaders “by integrating academic extra support, focusing particularly on gram to our existing care team services excellence and Christian commitment first-year and transfer students who had staff for students who still needed extra within a caring community” in a mean- not yet had a full year on our campus. support. This proved vital as our care ingful and effective way. We also used data from a campus survey team services staff saw a 68% increase that included students who self-identi- in their caseload in the fall. Pairing the SHARRA HYNES, Ph.D., is associate vice fied as experiencing particular anxiety momentum of the Bear Care program president and dean of students in the di- vision of student life at Baylor University around a number of issues (including the with our existing infrastructures and or- (Waco, Texas). Robert Rogers Robert

transition to online learning, their move ganizations was essential. University Pacific of Life courtesy Photos

24 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 25 CREATING CAREER MINISTERING TO STUDENTS CONNECTIONS WHILE IN QUARANTINE AND SOCIAL DISTANCING ISOLATION BY CAROL BROWN INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY BY SARAH MOSS DORDT UNIVERSITY

Indiana Wesleyan University's Life Calling and Career team poses outside on the university's campus in Marion, Indiana. OVER THE PAST six months, Dordt can hop on if they want; this includes University Campus Pastor Sam Ashmore a Zoom prayer time on Monday, a vir- tual hangout on Tuesday, a Zoom Bible FACED WITH THE challenge of the pandemic, as many employers were online job fair helped our traditional has spent hours on the phone with Dordt study on Wednesday, and a virtual lunch connecting employers and students dur- thrilled to have an outdoor recruiting campus in Marion, Indiana, collaborate students in quarantine and isolation. on Thursday. Not all students take ad- ing the COVID-19 pandemic — where option. with our online school, IWU National Being alone for days can be difficult for vantage of the Zoom calls, but they tell Employers found the outdoor tent to & Global, to serve both groups of stu- many, so Ashmore makes sure to check social distancing limits mean a tradition- Ashmore that they appreciate having the be a festive and fun pop-up style recruit- dents and give them a chance to engage a up on how students are doing emotion- al career connection event isn’t possible option to log on if they want. ing option, while students seemed less in- national mix of employers. ally, spiritually, and mentally. — our Life Calling and Career team at “Even if they don’t log onto the Zoom Even with economic difficulties hit- “I ask, ‘How are classes? How’s your Indiana Wesleyan University utilized timidated to meet with employers at the calls, it’s nice to know that someone is ting multiple fields across the country, heart? How’s your mind?’” says Ash- our critical thinking skills to address outdoor courtyard tents than in a typi- there for them — that someone cares,” our office has seen a steady growth of more. “But the main purpose behind the the challenge of connecting employers cal career fair setting indoors. We did he says. employment opportunities in health call is to pray with the student. We stop and students in a safe and creative way. move these events to a socially distanced In addition to providing pastoral care, care, education, communications, logis- right there on the phone and pray for Our team decided an outdoor tent space indoor setup when the weather wasn’t Dordt’s campus ministries team has whatever the student needs at that mo- would provide employers and students ideal, but the successful experiment of tics, and accounting during this time. found a way to provide peer support to ment, whether that be, ‘Man, studies are with a safer environment to meet and the tent event taught our team the im- In fact, some industries have benefit- students in quarantine and isolation by ted from the needs of the pandemic, so really hard in quarantine,’ or, ‘I’m really share information for potential intern- portance of adaptability and addressing hiring Carolyn Shonkwiler, a junior psy- Sam Ashmore, campus pastor at Dordt bored and lonely.’” ships and employment. We knew this the core need of both employers and stu- we are helping our students shift their chology and social work major. She hand- University, checks in on a student who target to the fields that are in demand. Since the beginning of the fall semes- has been quarantined. This has been an would be helpful for students looking for dents: a human connection. writes letters of encouragement. Typical- important part of his work in ministering to ter, Dordt’s campus ministries team has jobs, but we were surprised by how much Our team also utilized technology to Most employers have adapted to remote ly, she writes five to 10 letters a day, but at Dordt students during the pandemic. worked hard to provide pastoral support interest this generated from recruiting help students, offering Zoom appoint- working arrangements and are offering one point she wrote 20 to 40 letters a day. remote internships for IWU students. to students who are in quarantine or employers. The registrations for the “tent ments for life coaching, resume reviews, She has also baked chocolate chip cookies isolation because of COVID-19. In ad- known for their authentic selves with Our team maintained a steady market- that she drops off for students. event” calendar filled up quickly despite and LinkedIn tutorials. New their peers, and campus ministries can ing campaign to promote resume reviews dition to making regular phone calls to “This work study job has provided an student orientation sessions foster and facilitate this even more.” Indiana Wesleyan's outdoor tent event to connect over Zoom meetings, and appointments students, the team developed a “Quar- opportunity for me to serve in a tangible students with potential employers was a great on StrengthsFinder results antine and Isolation Resources” page Doing ministry during COVID-19 success for all involved. are nearly back to their pre-pandemic way,” says Shonkwiler. “I think it’s im- were moved into an interac- has also shown Ashmore that Gen Z stu- numbers. that Ashmore sends to every student portant to have someone reach out and tive online format featuring As the pandemic continues to ne- who starts quarantine or isolation. The recognize that going through quarantine dents are quite comfortable with discuss- discussion groups for students cessitate adjustments to how we do our page contains many resources, includ- is hard and that we see them — that they ing their thoughts and feelings online to learn more about their work, the Life Calling and Career team ing tips for defending well-being during are still part of Dordt.” and through text. top strengths. We provided continues to search for new and creative quarantine and isolation, as well as a link Ashmore has noticed that students of- “I wonder if there is a place for text- student employees opportu- ways to build relationships with employ- to RightNow Media, the biggest Bible ten want their peers to help carry their driven pastoral care on Dordt’s cam- nities to hear speakers from ers and deliver our services effectively to study library in the world. burdens and provide a listening ear. pus,” he says. “Not to replace face-to- other organizations through students so they can be equipped and “We also have a resource that deals “There is a lot of healing, growth, and face interaction, but as a doorway to it. our SET (Student Employ- empowered to fulfill their God-given with identity — a reminder to students creativity that takes place through peer- Will students be more engaged if we ment Training) workshops purpose in the world. that God calls them his son or daughter. to-peer support and encouragement. reach out to them through text initial- on Zoom. In addition, we There’s a form where students can submit Looking forward, I wonder if there’s a ly? That’s something I want to ponder hosted IWU’s first-ever “Vir- CAROL BROWN is the associate dean prayer requests, too,” says Ashmore. more intentional way for campus min- and think through.” of Life Calling & Career at Indiana Wes- tual Internship and Job Fair” leyan University in Marion, Indiana. Every week, each campus ministries istries to take part in peer-to-peer en- SARAH MOSS is the director of com- in October, which featured team member has a standing Zoom call couragement, truth-telling, counseling, munication and marketing at Dordt

more than 50 employers. This University of Indiana Wesleyan courtesy Photos University Dordt Velde/ Jamin Ver where students in isolation or quarantine or the like. I see students craving to be University in Sioux Center, Iowa.

26 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 27 PRIORITIES, POSSIBILITIES, MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY AND PROMISES KEPT SHIFTS IN TEACHING (MILLIGAN, TN) BY ANDREW J. BECKNER UNIVERSITY STAFF responsible AND OMAR RASHED for cleaning and maintaining facilities ANDERSON UNIVERSITY (SC) UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN – have been essential to keeping campus ST. PAUL (ST. PAUL, MN) communities safe during the pandem- LAST SUMMER, every headline ic. At Milligan University, a unique partnership between the housekeep- about higher education in every major IN THE MIDST of pandemic lockdowns and social distancing, walking outdoors ing staff and a freshmen engineering news outlet told the same story: The has been a key outlet for many people. Rick Love, an art and design professor at the class produced a useful tool that helps pandemic had created a looming en- University of Northwestern – St. Paul and faculty president there, began attending rollment crisis. Through intentional, practical steps, Anderson University (SC) saw protect the housekeeping staff in their increases in both enrollment and retention during the pandemic. some meetings over Zoom on his phone while he was walking outside and realized that But for years, Anderson University important work. it worked so well, he could turn it into a classroom opportunity. (Anderson, South Carolina) has been Carrie Floyd, Milligan’s service For his art history class, Love spent some class sessions walking around sites in the one of the fastest-growing private insti- manager for housekeeping, wanted Minneapolis-St. Paul area, with the help of a friend who filmed him, and engaged with tutions of higher learning in the U.S., Risk Avoidance vs. Risk ing space for social distancing, among to find some sort of tool for her staff students about the types of art they were seeing over the Zoom meeting. The locations even in the face of numerous challeng- Management other protocols. But it proved to be a that could help them safely open and varied from St. Paul’s historic Union Depot station to cemeteries with graves dating es. So our headline was different: “De- crucial step in connecting with stu- shut doors and drawers, push elevator We also had to embrace the reality that back to the 1850s. It allowed students to consider why certain types of art would be spite COVID-19 Pandemic, Anderson dents and their families, and we were buttons, and flip light switches — re- no organization can fully eliminate risk. located in that part of Minnesota and bring their history studies to a new light. University Sets New Record for Stu- successfully able to remain free of CO- ducing the amount of direct contact Clearly, the stakes are higher amid this “It really helped when everyone was nervous [about COVID-19 protocols] in the dent Enrollment.” VID-19 throughout the summer. they had with high-touch surfaces public health crisis; failure, in this case, fall,” Love says. “We know the masks, the social distancing, the protocols all work now, In fall 2020, we enrolled almost while cleaning — while also being is not inconsequential. Like most uni- but we didn’t then. … This felt like face-to-face classroom engagement.” 3,900 students, a jump of nearly 500 Campus-Wide Commitment small enough to fit on a key ring or versities, we suspended in-person opera- Love was also able to utilize recordings of himself doing demos for his printmaking from the year before. Anderson enrolled It wasn’t just the enrollment team that in a pocket. Landon Holbrook, assis- tions last spring. But as soon as the last classes, making it easier for students to learn new techniques in an “up-close” format the largest freshman class in its history; was involved in this success. Communi- tant professor of mechanical engineer- of our students left campus, we shifted while maintaining safe distances. Overall, Love says, the feedback he received from his experienced a 5% increase in residential cations leaders provided clear and con- ing, gave the challenge to his students our focus to fall 2020 and the overriding students was positive, and he plans to continue utilizing the format in his coursework students; had freshmen to sophomore question: How can we safely bring our sistent communication to our students in the Introduction to Engineering retention grow by almost 5%; and saw in the future, even after the pandemic ends. He also hopes, once restrictions ease and family back together next semester? The and their families. The entire campus course. They used CAD software and racial and ethnic diversity reach the they feel more comfortable going out to new places, that it will encourage his students discussion was led by our task force — community displayed incredible adher- a 3D printer to design several options highest level in the university’s history. to go and explore the sites around them as well. a collection of faculty and staff profes- ence to our health and safety protocols, for the housekeeping staff to test and This happened not just because of An- sionals with experience in public health, helping us keep our COVID-19 case offer feedback. derson’s campus culture, but because emergency management, crisis commu- count low. We hired staff whose sole re- After a series of revisions to the de- our leadership took practical steps that nication, and executive leadership. With sponsibility was caring for students who SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY sign based on the feedback, the class led to a record-breaking enrollment. their insight and the guidance of al- contracted the virus — everything from produced the final design that the contact tracing to arranging isolation (LAKELAND, FL) housekeeping staff deemed their favor- Possibility and Promise mighty God, we decided the best course of action was to manage risk rather than housing and meal delivery. We treated ite. The experience provided a hands- If there’s one thing we’ve learned dur- ONE OF THE BIGGEST pandemic challenges for parents has been to find ways try to avoid it. our finances responsibly, ensuring no on opportunity both to learn about the ing the pandemic, it’s that there’s no faculty or staff faced furloughs or layoffs. to both support their children with their modified schoolwork and focus on their own entire process of engineering a product use trying to guess what’s coming next. work. At the same time, education students have not been able to gain the same class- Hosting In-Person Orientation Ultimately, as many CCCU col- for customers and to help the members That’s why Anderson University Presi- room practice because of school closures. At Southeastern University (Lakeland, FL), the for First-Year Students leagues can attest, I think it really comes of the Milligan community. dent Evans Whitaker shared a new vi- down to how our faculty, staff, and stu- College of Education developed a program that could tackle both problems for students sion with the leadership team: Don’t A key early step was proactive engage- dents embrace our mission. Saying An- and employees at the university during the fall 2020 semester. try to predict. Rather, focus on the pos- ment with the Class of 2024 and inte- Freshmen engineering students at Milligan derson University is like a family isn’t Known as RISE (Remote Instruction for Students of Employees), the program gave University got a unique opportunity to sibilities, and reinforce the university’s grating new students into the AU cam- just a slogan. It’s something all of us school-age children of Southeastern’s faculty and staff a safe and secure place to complete design, test, and produce a tool to help promises and priorities. pus culture. Based on the task force’s protect the university's housekeeping truly believe and embrace. online coursework during the fall while their parents worked. Thirty-five students from staff from COVID-19. Put simply, we made it clear that recommendations, we made the deci- the College of Education supervised the children, assisted with homework, and answered we’ll do everything in our power to sion to move forward with in-person ANDREW J. BECKNER is the executive questions, providing them with field study hours for their degree. keep campus open (the possibility) orientation sessions for first-year stu- director of public relations at Anderson Though the program is not currently running, RISE is ready to open again if needed. University (Anderson, South Carolina). while never losing sight of our students’ dents during the summer. It was a chal- The program is directed by Cindy Campbell, assistant professor of education, who co- academic and physical health (the lenge, certainly, and involved a lot of OMAR RASHED is Anderson’s senior vice president for administration and ordinated with multiple departments across campus to make sure the program could be promise). Our students and their fami- temperature checks, health screenings, brand. run safely and effectively.

lies responded to that approach. face covering requirements, and creat- (SC) University of Anderson courtesy Photo of Milligan University courtesy Photo

28 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 29 The International Impact of COVID-19 How the CCCU's international members have adapted to the pandemic's challenges.

THE CCCU IS an international community, with 48 members located in 20 countries outside the United States. While we have long valued and shared our global fellowship as institutions of Christian higher education, never before has there been a crisis that has truly impacted the entirety of our global membership at the same time. The following essays, written by the leaders of six international institutions around the world, offer a glimpse of how the pandemic has impacted their campuses — and how our shared faith in Jesus Christ has helped their communities endure the challenges, uncertainties, and opportunities that have arisen as a result.

30 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 31 Emmaus University | Haiti Károli Gáspár University | Hungary Faith, Hope, and Resilience Keep Us Going Keeping the Faith in Times of Crisis

INSTABILITY. VULNERABILITY. UNPREDICT- So what has kept us going? Faith, hope, and resilience. LOOKING BACK AT the previous year, the COVID-19 Károli Christian Scholarship, which we founded in 2019 ABILITY. Inadequacy. Unpreparedness. Humanitarian crisis. Faith in the Triune God. As a community of faith, we prayed pandemic put digital education into the frontline in the life of to help young Christians living in discriminated minority Fearfulness. These are among the terms often used to describe and fasted that God would protect us from the wrath of CO- our university. In the face of the pandemic’s challenges, we set communities from countries in the Middle East and Africa. our situation in Haiti in a normal year. Each year, we brace VID-19. And God answered us. As of this writing in Febru- up an array of health and safety measures as well as introduced Undoubtedly, the introduction of our online courses will for natural and human-made disasters. Our faithful tropical ary, 11 months after COVID-19 landed on our soil, it has only new teaching and examination methods. Though the situa- have some advantages for the long run, as both professors and storms never fail to make a visit. Ever since the earthquake took claimed 243 lives. This is 22 persons per month, 0.73 person per tion in Hungary was and is mostly under control, and the rate students learn to use new technologies and tools that may its 30 seconds to dance with us and shake us to the core in 2010, day. Hunger is deadlier than COVID-19 in Haiti. of infections and deaths is lower compared to several other be useful even after the pandemic is over. Nevertheless, we it has regularly been sending us waves to let us know it does Along with faith, hope has been the second attitude that countries, we Hungarians also feel the daily consequences of also learned in the past year that no matter how advanced the not leave nor forsake us. Nowadays, political unrest has become kept us going. We cultivated the same mindset when natural this enduring virus in every aspect of our lives. technologies you use, nothing can replace personal contact the most lucrative industry in Haiti and is occurring more and and human-made disasters hit us. We remained optimistic that As a university, the health and safety of our students, amongst students, professors, and staff. more often as Haiti’s cash flow depletes. things would get better with time. Our faith and our hope have professors, and staff members has been our top priority. As the biggest Protestant university in Europe, we hold We are used to these types of disruptions. We know how prepared us to be more resilient than ever before. We chose not Since we have over 8,200 students and about 800 employees fast to our commitment to represent not only our Christian to navigate them with little or no resources at all. They have to give up living. We chose not to give up learning. values but our genuine faith that God does not let us down — become part of our everyday life. But COVID-19 has been a on seven campuses located in three cities, this has been a even in the midst of a global hardship unlike any our current different ball game. formidable task. In March 2020, at the beginning of the first generation has ever known. In early 2020, we looked in consternation at what CO- wave of the pandemic in Hungary, we closed our buildings VID-19 was doing to our mighty friends across the Western and switched to online education within 48 hours. At Hemisphere. Logically, our fate was sealed. How could we in the same time, we asked the vast majority of our students ÁGNES CZINE is the Haiti face such a monstrous disease that brings the best global living in dormitories to move out and to go home. Special acting rector of Károli health systems to their knees? How can we economically with- Gáspár University of the exemptions were made on a case-by-case basis for those Reformed Church in stand such a beast that almost eats up the strongest economy in who had no proper home to return to or, as was the case Hungary, which is based the world? How can we survive such a villain that shatters the for our international students, those who simply could not in Budapest, Hungary. lifestyle of the most established societies of our time? Without travel home. As a result, about 30 international students any doubt, we could see an unprecedented humanitarian crisis from three continents and 20 countries remained in the rushing toward us like a lightning bolt. dormitory. We had to take similar actions during the middle Like everyone everywhere in the world, we at Emmaus Uni- of the fall semester, when the second wave of the pandemic versity of Haiti braced for it. We did not have any choice. CO- reached Hungary. Given the extraordinary circumstances, Károli Gáspár University's campus in VID-19 was making its way to our shore. It was not coming to Emmaus University is located in a small Budapest, Hungary, includes a historic the university did not charge a dormitory fee for two weeks enjoy our beaches and sunshine. It was coming to take over. It village on Haiti’s northern coast a few building donated by the Hungarian miles outside of Cap-Haitian, Haiti’s so we could help ease these students’ financial burdens. government for educational purposes. was coming to finish what tropical storms and political upheav- second-largest city. als had left of us from the previous year. Thanks to these quick and robust measures, we managed to avoid the spread of the virus within our campuses. As was likely We watched what the rest of the world was doing to protect In March 2020, halfway through our spring semester, we the case of other CCCU institutions, we put much emphasis themselves against this giant killer. Quarantine? Social distanc- had to close our campus. Most of our students do not have elec- on the mental well-being of our professors, staff, and students, ing? These are unthinkable for us. Life is lived within commu- tricity in their homes, let alone a personal computer and inter- nity. Also, we must go out daily to earn our bread, and we have net. We asked them to use their phones to complete their work Hungarian and international alike. A new campus pastor and no infrastructure to preserve any left over for the next day. We for the semester. Then we realized that more than one-third of a team of mental health advisers are now available for our watched as virtual education went viral. This, too, was beyond them do not have a smart phone. Those with no smart phones university citizens at all times. Those advisers who speak English our capability. No more than one out of 10 students within our had to borrow one from a relative or a neighbor. They hand- are also at the disposal of our international students whom we student body owns a personal computer. wrote their assignments, took pictures of them, and texted them deem particularly vulnerable during times of lockdown. to their professors. It was not easy, but we did it. We completed As elsewhere, our international mobility programs greatly GUENSON CHARLOT is the spring 2020 semester. By August 2020, we felt confident suffered from the travel restrictions. Here we try to walk president of Emmaus and safe enough to be back to campus. on a narrow path: While observing every pandemic-related University in Cercaville, Today, our campus is full of life. Our student body is ex- regulation, we keep our hearts and doors open to those Acul du Nord, Haiti. ponentially growing. Our dorms, especially our female dorm, international students who endeavor to travel to Hungary are overcrowded. Our dining space is becoming too small. Our to study for a semester or to seek a degree at Károli Gáspár staff is more enthusiastic than ever. Faith in the Triune God; University. Though international mobility has decreased, hope that abounds in the power of the Holy Spirit; and our we still have a fair number of incoming students from

resilience have kept and will continue to keep us going. Gáspár University of Károli courtesy Photos several countries. Some of them have been granted the Photos courtesy of Emmaus University courtesy Photos

32 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 33 34 ADVANCE Preparing forPreparing Any Season Africa International University International Africa tered leaders in Africa for the transformation of God’s people of people God’s transformation for the Africa in leaders tered Christ-cen —to educate university of the mandate core the ensure wecan that so courses for theological more scholarships to attract is prayer ever. Our enrollment lowest its perienced ex of Theology,which School our in enrollment the impacted particularly has Africa in church the on pandemic’s The effect year. this tremendously dropped schools the across rollments it. needs who to anyone support to provide throughout open remained also have team counseling the and clinic health university day.the Both every mask face new a receive offices from who work Staff strengthened. and revised were processes and schedules Cleaning hostels. and campus the within ings build our in dispensers hand-sanitizer provided and points, hand-washing added signage, Wedemic. put up warning pan the during operational to be continue could university well. as platform online an through exams able wewere to administer and locations, geographical due to their connectivity internet not get could who for those except remote learning, and to online students over 65% We transitioned of our webinars. psychology and ing counsel as Bible study, well and as Union meetings, Christian virtual services, chapel online home at through students our world. outside the with contact their reducing consumption, for vegetables own their grow them to enable gardens small allocated were Students on campus. while needs basic their ing meet in them to support hands joined friends and partners, international community, AIU the so on campus, remained lies fami their and students However, international our directive. government’s Kenyan the per as home staff and students of the most sending 2020, March in campus its closed (AIU) versity AT ONSET THE The university’s finances were adversely affected because en because affected adversely were finances university’s The the that to ensure steps took AIU continued, year the As to support moral and spiritual to provide continued AIU | SPRING 2021 SPRING | of COVID-19, Africa International Uni of International COVID-19, Africa University in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi, in University International Africa of is vice chancellor DANKIT NASSIUMA

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Students are struggling but aren’t seeking help in traditional ways. How are campuses navigating that reality?

By Abby Perry

IT’S A RESULT that most faculty and staff would have expected after watching their students endure the disruption of COVID-19: “Due to the long-lasting pandemic situation and onerous measures such as lockdown and stay-at-home orders, the COVID-19 pandemic brings negative impacts on higher education. The findings of our study highlight the urgent need to develop interventions and preven- tive strategies to address the mental health of college students.” That was the finding of an interview survey study published in September 2020 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. It likely comes as no surprise to most higher education professionals. Even for students whose families did not face illness, death, or job loss directly, the changes in routine and surroundings alone would be enough to have a deep impact. AdobeStock

38 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 39 students are reluctant to get the help they into this, especially since we know that it isolation because of the simple fact For example, are students engaging? Are need because they’re afraid to go out due isn’t just mental health services that are that the student volunteers are in the they no longer turning their video cam- to the pandemic but also feel uncomfort- experiencing this [lower participation].” same position as their peers—facing eras on during the Zoom meetings? Are able with telehealth services. It could be The key, many are finding, is culti- a complete shift in what they expect- they saying things like, “I just don’t see that the “basement effect” Monger sug- vating intentional connection amongst ed their college experience to entail. the point of doing this assignment”? gested is just disrupting enough for stu- peers. At Azusa Pacific University in While it doesn’t replace the need for “We give faculty language to use,” dents to struggle in class but not enough Azusa, California, the university’s coun- professional mental health services, it Lacy says. “[Statements like] ‘I feel how for them to feel the need to seek help. seling center has launched a Peer Educa- does provide a unique and meaningful hard this is for you. I’ve felt that way be- “PICTURE STUDENTS Regardless of the assumptions, CCCU tor program. Lori Lacy, the counseling way to share fears and anxieties. fore. I’ve found that it’s helpful to go talk leaders are continuing their mission to center’s director, says that six undergrad- These peer-led collaborations to someone about it.” help students flourish in the midst of all uate students serving as interns for the aren’t the only way connections seem In this season of tremendous isolation, IN A BASEMENT,” circumstances. They model and encour- center have taken on the task of promot- to be making a difference in stu- distance, and uncertainty, counselors age rhythms not of assumption and reac- ing mental wellness to other students as dent overall well-being. Campuses and activities directors on many Chris- says Todd Monger, executive director of student devel- tion, but of observation and response. part of this program. The students receive across the country have found that, tian campuses know that community- opment at North Central University in Minneapolis, “Caring, consistency, and constancy,” academic internship credit in exchange especially now, embracing the theol- building is still possible. It’s difficult, and Minnesota. “No windows, no social cues — even their says Tamela Turner, campus counselor for working 2,000 hours a year providing ogy of bearing one another’s burdens perhaps the mechanisms aren’t ideal, but movies they watch are streamed, so they are never in- at Judson College in Marion, Alabama. outreach to the APU student community. cannot be overstated. staff efforts are bearing fruit. Of the more terrupted by the 10:00 p.m. news cueing them it might Turner emphasizes the value of reach- “They can get through [to their fellow Storms says that while Ozark out- than 4,800 CCCU students across the be time for bed. Students are losing track of time, sleep ing out to students on a regular basis, students] in a way that professionals can’t sources professional counseling when U.S. and Canada who responded to the schedules, eating schedules, and the list goes on. They demonstrating clear availability and always do,” Lacy explains. student needs can be better met by “Thriving Quotient” survey in the fall, are socially ‘weightless’ or numb because they have lost openness to listening. “We didn’t stop Kraegel at Calvin University has off-campus professionals, there are 78% agreed or strongly agreed with the social grounding.” [offering counseling sessions] when stu- found the same to be true. “Being able to many faculty members with pastoral statement, “Overall, my instructors have Monger wonders if students’ social muscles are at- dents were on break,” she says. “We knew switch to a virtual service model has been counseling hearts willing to lend an shown care and concern for me as they rophying during this time in ways that won’t quite they were coming back, so we told them, really important,” she says. “Most of what ear to students. respond to COVID-19” (for more on become clear until a truly post-pandemic era, like ‘we’re still here.’” we’ve done in the past we’ve been able to Lacy at Azusa Pacific also notes this, see page 12). Peer-centric initiatives when an astronaut returns to Earth and can’t bear up Turner places the priority not on pre- continue to do in a virtual format. We that on-campus collaborations have are further normalizing conversations against gravity. There are certainly signs that students dicting how students feel or will feel in did, this year, bring in a new peer support provided resilient, meaningful part- around anxiety, depression, and other are struggling. the months to come, but on creating tool — an app that students could use to An informal survey of academic leaders from 32 spaces and opportunities for them to support each other virtually. … It’s been CCCU institutions at the end of 2020 revealed that communicate, process, and seek counsel. an opportunity for students to digitally 66% of these leaders have seen similar or even decreased Irene Kraegel, director of the Center reach out to each other and show support. CAMPUSES HAVE FOUND THAT demand for mental health services from students seek- for Counseling and Wellness at Calvin That’s something we’ve been working to- ing help (whether in-person or virtually) compared to University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, ward for a long time, but I think the tim- EMBRACING THE THEOLOGY OF previous years. Yet the same survey showed that 78% takes a similar approach. She notes that ing did end up working out well.” BEARING ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS of those leaders have seen significant increases in signs it isn’t just mental health services seeing “There have been a lot of students that students are struggling (such as missed or incom- lower participation at Calvin; engage- talking and posting about loneliness, CANNOT BE OVERSTATED. plete assignments, grade levels below average for the ment in student activities is lower now anxiety, and depression,” says Andy class, higher absenteeism, etc.). than it was during pre-pandemic times. Storms, vice president of student affairs National data tell a similar story. In their fall 2020 “I think time will tell,” she says. “Is and the residence director of Strong survey of student success, Hobsons found that more [decreased enrollment in student mental Hall at Ozark Christian College. “But nerships in a time when so much health issues. Perhaps these efforts and than half of college students reported their learning ex- health services] because students are suf- I know that, going into November, feels fractured. For example, APU’s their results encapsulate one of the great perience worsening due to the pandemic and that 68% fering in silence and it feels like too much our counseling numbers were down. I counseling center partnered with opportunities on college campuses to- stated that COVID-19 had negatively affected their of a barrier to meet virtually? Some stu- think everyone was talking about [men- APU’s human resources department day: the chance to acknowledge the dif- mental health. However, 77% of all students surveyed dents are feeling like they’re in living sit- tal health] but they didn’t seek profes- and provost office to provide all new ficulties of the times, lament their losses, indicated that they had not availed themselves of their uations where they don’t have the privacy sional help...which could be a recipe for faculty with training on both safety and mine their depths for the abundant college’s mental health services. they need for something like virtual ther- disaster...or it could be that, sort of by in the curricular setting and mental life still promised all the while. One could make a few different assumptions about apy. We do offer in-person rooms that the acceptance of talking about it, [stu- health awareness. what these statistics mean. It could be that students students can use for their virtual sessions dents are] getting the care they need Lacy says that these training ABBY PERRY is a freelance writer with work in Christianity Today, Sojourners, are experiencing more anxiety and depression but are at our center but there are students who and at least don’t feel alone.” courses speak to specific signs of dis- and Texas Monthly. Find her in Texas with trying to find their own coping mechanisms without aren’t living in town — they’re studying Peer-to-peer connection seems particu- tress that faculty members can look her husband and two sons, and on Twitter the aid of campus health care leaders. It could be that remotely. So I think there’s a lot that goes larly effective at helping students combat for while educating students online. at @abbyjperry.

40 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 41 C H A R I T A B L E GIVING & HIGHER EDUCATION IN A TIME OF ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL FOR CCCU INSTITUTIONS, ADVOCATING FOR TAX DEDUCTIONS FOR CHARITABLE GIVING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.

LIKE MOST INSTITUTIONS of higher education, Christian colleges and universities in the U.S. were facing tough economic realities even before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. But even as institutions ramp up their donor relations outreach among alumni and the broader network of campus connections, changes to the tax code — specifically the charitable deduction — have created even more uncertainty. The following essays explore the impact changes to the charitable deduction can have to donations to Christian higher education and why it is important for all colleges and universities to be involved in advocacy for the charitable deduction. AdobeStock

42 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 43 WHY THE CHARITABLE giving, and the opposite is true as well. GIVING AND CHRISTIAN HIGHER universities, since many gifts to universities are in this DEDUCTION For those donating dollars to a qualified EDUCATION range. In other words, reducing the tax deductibility organization, the additional dollar given of smaller gifts has a negative impact on any organiza- Key to understanding the impact giving costs them less than $1. If these individ- tions that rely on donors who give these interme- MATTERS changes will have for Christian colleges uals face a marginal income tax rate of diate-sized gifts — such as younger donors to and universities is understanding what 20%, the dollar of giving (which is sub- a university. it means for giving to be “religious.” The Research shows that smaller tracted from their taxable income) only The size of a COPPS designation defines religious giv- costs them (1 – 0.20) = $0.80. RECENT CHANGES TO GIVING gifts to organizations are the ing as “for religious purposes or spiritual donor's gift also TAX INCENTIVES development” — deliberately excluding most likely to shrink when tax EXAMINING RELIGIOSITY IN GIVING affects their giving to organizations like Catholic Char- While the tax deductibility of charita- incentives change. That’s bad While there has been plenty of research ities or a Christian university. All other ble contributions remains, the dramatic likelihood to news for your campus. connected to the economics of giving, giving — to be clear, this includes giving increase in the standard deduction in give when tax my colleague Jeremy Thornton (associate to CCCU institutions — is secular. 2018 due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act dean and professor of economics at Sam- Since gifts to Christian colleges and uni- led to a sharp reduction in the percent incentives change. By Sara Helms McCarty ford University) and I wanted to take the versities are considered “secular,” changes of households that itemize. In 2018, only research on giving even further by consid- to giving incentives have a greater impact. 11.4% of households itemized in their tax fil- ering household religiosity and its impact Giving directed at secular causes is more ings, compared to 31% in 2017. Since only those on giving behavior. We explored giving responsive to tax treatment than is giving who itemized in 2018 received the charitable tax behavior by households separated by reli- to religious causes. When the tax-price incentive, this law reduced many taxpayers’ ability THE U.S. IS unusually charitable for a wealthy giosity using data from the early 2000s, a rises, people are less likely to give a secular to claim tax deductibility for their charitable giving country; its citizens regularly contribute 2% of its time period that includes multiple tax pol- gift, even though it does not change their — thus reducing their incentive to give to secular GDP (nearly double New Zealand, next on the list). icy changes, allowing us to see how giving religious giving. However, the amount giv- causes, including Christian higher education. The $309 billion given by households supports a changes in different situations. In our data, en across all kinds of gifts falls when the However, in 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, wide range of social goods. As of 2019, the top four the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study tax-price rises. and Economic Security (CARES) Act changed the recipients of giving are religious organizations ($128 (COPPS), roughly 84.4% of individuals tax treatment of charitable deductions, now making billion), education ($64 billion), human services ($56 Thus, raising the tax-price will have report a religious affiliation of Christian or both a negative impact on the receipt of them available even for non-itemizers. For itemizers, billion), and foundations ($53.5 billion). 1 Jewish. Of these, 48% attend services at the amount available for deduction is up to 100% of But this level of giving is never a guarantee. As we university gifts and a stronger negative least twice per month, the threshold we use impact on the size of the gifts received. their adjusted gross income, but even for non-itemiz- will explore below, a key factor to the U.S. popu- devoted to identify households. Our research found that increases in the ers the maximum allowed deduction is $300. lation’s level of giving rests in economic in- There are large differences in giving be- tax-price of giving have the least impact When the tax deductibility changed, first in 2017 centives. If those incentives change — as havior across households’ devotion. We find on devoted household giving to religious and again in 2020, nonprofit organizations closely fol- they have in recent years — then insti- that 82% of devoted households give, com- causes (good news for your churches) and lowed the policy debate. There are clear implications Since gifts to tutions, including Christian colleges pared to 53% of the non-devoted. The giv- and universities, will likely see a de- the greatest impact on non-devoted house- for private, nonprofit institutions of higher education, ing amounts vary widely, too — on average, Christian colleges are cline in financial donations. holds giving to secular causes (bad news for particularly those in the CCCU. In order to predict devoted households give $2,055 annually, private, non-religious institutions of higher behavior, we can look at past changes in tax law and considered "secular," while non-devoted households give $498. THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS education). The impact for CCCU institu- the resulting behavioral response for different groups. If individuals give out of a religious mo- changes to giving OF GIVING tions likely falls in the middle. Given the sliding level of devotion in the Unit- tivation, then changing the tax treatment The size of a donor’s gift also affects ed States, it is likely that givers to Christian higher incentives have a One principle of economics is that of charitable gifts should matter less. How- their likelihood to give when tax incentives education span both devoted and non-devoted individuals respond to incentives. ever, for giving that is not motivated by re- greater impact. change. Large donors are not very respon- groups. Since giving to education is considered Whether you lower the cost of an ac- ligion, tax treatment matters much more. sive to changes in the tax-price of giving, secular giving, it becomes more important to tion or raise the benefit, either step will We find that charitable giving moves in- no matter their religiosity. Rather, it is the advocate for giving among your stakeholders. encourage individuals toward the action. versely to income tax rates, but the change small- and medium-sized gifts (annual giv- Charitable giving is no different. There are in giving is proportionally smaller than the ing of $50 to $500) to secular causes that SARA HELMS MCCARTY is professor of eco- many studies that find that raising the tax deduct- change in tax deductibility. are most responsive — a serious impact on nomics at Samford University’s Brock School ibility of charitable giving leads to higher levels of of Business in Birmingham, Alabama.

1While there is a sizeable Muslim population in the United States, as well as other non-Judeo-Christian affiliations, in the COPPS dataset the Helms McCarty of Sara courtesy Photo number of individuals reporting such affiliations is too low for meaningful analysis. This is why we focus on Jewish and Christian households only.

44 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 45 CHARITABLE GIVING IS CRITICAL TO even more of their own funds to fill the Quarterly noted that the percentage of The challenge with advocacy efforts on the charitable gap. Private institutions have worked hard American households donating something giving provision is to make sure that higher education’s to increase such resources for students to a legally recognized charity was 53.9 voice is heard clearly and distinctly. The broad co- EDUCATIONAL who need them in the form of college and percent in 2016, down nearly 14 percentage alition that surrounds charitable giving means university grants, scholarships, and fellow- points from the peak level in 2002. A 2019 that there are a large number of different INSTITUTIONS ships. Indeed, according to a 2018 study Independent Sector report shows that donors voices with different priorities in the dis- The challenge commissioned by the CCCU, for every $1 seem to be increasingly concentrated among cussion. And with the enactment of the with advocacy efforts Colleges and universities need in federal grant money a student receives, the high-income households that already so-called “endowment tax” in the 2017 CCCU institutions provide $5 in institu- dominate the landscape of charitable giving. tax reform bill, which applies to a rela- on the charitable to make sure their voices are tional financial aid. It is important to keep In recent years, Congress has changed tively small number of well-resourced giving provision is to in mind that a significant percentage of this the tax code in ways that have the poten- heard in conversations about private colleges and universities, Con- make sure that higher crucial institutional aid comes from chari- tial to both undermine and enhance tax gress has indicated that there are some the charitable contribution table donations. This study reflects trends deductible giving. donated gifts that should be subject education's voice among private nonprofit higher education Tax reform passed in 2017 sharply in- deduction. to taxation — a very unfortunate step. is heard clearly and in the U.S. as a whole. Without the addi- creased the standard deduction, which was While the provision currently affects a tion of private donations to the financial expected to decrease the number of indi- very small number of institutions, it’s not distinctly. By Terry Hartle aid mix, far fewer students would be able to viduals who itemized and thus simplify their hard to imagine a future Congress deciding to finance a higher education. Charitable gifts annual tax filing. Since the charitable deduc- expand the provision’s reach. tion is of primary interest to those who item- also support teaching, research, and other All higher education organizations see preserving critical education-related investments. ize, there have been widespread concerns THE MODERN ERA of public finance in America and expanding the charitable contribution deduction It’s little wonder that colleges and uni- that charitable giving to all nonprofits, in- probably began in 1913 when the federal government as a central part — perhaps the central part — of their versities spend so much time and effort cluding colleges and universities, would fall. enacted the Federal Reserve Act after the ratification tax advocacy agenda and devote considerable time and courting donors in hopes of securing chari- In 2020, Congress moved in the other of the 16th Amendment, authorizing a federal indi- resources to this provision in the tax code. But in this table contributions. For many, the dona- direction when it enacted COVID-19 re- vidual income tax. In 1917, Congress authorized a highly charged political era, we cannot assume that the tions are critical to their survival. lief that included temporarily suspending tax deduction for charitable contributions, a provision past will guarantee the future on any issue. limits on the deductibility of cash contri- deemed necessary if charities were to survive World Elected officials have a general knowledge about TROUBLING TRENDS IN GIVING butions and allowing a modest tax deduc- War I. The assumption was that an increase in income the importance of the charitable deduction and other tion for individual who do not itemize their taxes to help finance WWI would lead the wealthy Enormous contributions totaling tens or giving incentives, but rarely do they hear about the returns. The idea was that these temporary to stop making charitable contributions, especially to even hundreds of millions of dollars gener- changes would boost charitable contribu- specific benefits these deliver to colleges and universi- colleges and universities. ate headlines, but donations of all sizes add tions in an era of significant economic dis- ties. As institutions struggle to meet the dire finan- The tax code has been expanded and re- up. The Council for Advancement and Sup- cial challenges posed by the pandemic, it is critically vised a number of times in the decades location. Advocacy will be critical to efforts The charitable port of Education reported that in the fiscal important that higher education organizations and since. But the charitable contribution to extend the pandemic-enacted non-item- year ending June 30, 2020, charitable con- campus officials alike recognize the benefits of such contribution deduction remains a vitally important izer charitable deduction beyond 2021, and tributions to colleges and universities totaled charitable giving incentives and recommit themselves part of the tax code for all colleges and perhaps even to expand it. deduction remains $49.5 billion (a slight decline from $49.6 bil- to educating elected officials about their benefits. We universities. Indeed, the American lion the previous year, an all-time high for THE NEED FOR ADVOCACY FROM cannot take anything for granted. a vitally important Council on Education (ACE) believes charitable giving to higher education). How- HIGHER ED that for many colleges and universities part of the tax ever, more than half of that period was be- TERRY HARTLE is the senior vice president of gov- the single most valuable federal policy fore the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic. Debates about the deductibility of chari- ernment relations and public affairs at the Ameri- code for all colleges is the charitable contribution deduc- An additional point of concern lies in table contributions rarely pit one set of or- can Council on Education (ACE), where he has and universities. tion. the fact that less than $20 billion of those ganized interests against another. And the served for more than 25 years. Few independent colleges and universi- donations from 2019-2020 came from charitable contribution deduction is one ties receive significant amounts of state sup- individuals; the rest came from corporations, of those rare issues that enjoys widespread To support the ongoing work of the port for their operating budgets. Some states foundations, and other organizations. bipartisan support across a broad array CCCU, use the response envelope provide financial aid that helps students attend these This reflects a larger trend: The number of of ideological positions. Few members of included with this issue of Advance. institutions, but when state financial aid is reduced households that donate has been declining for Congress are opposed to increasing chari-

as a result of budget cuts, private colleges must use years. A December 2019 article in Nonprofit Hartle of Terry courtesy Photo table giving.

46 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 47 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Improving Board Performance

Training and supporting these key leaders is vital for institutional success.

By Bob Andringa

THE MAJORITY OF PRIVATE college boards are under-performing for today’s challenges. Over the years, I have trained or consulted This year it is also wise to include a few board members PRESIDENTS SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES with good relationships within the Democratic Party. Board-oriented presidents are critical to governance. Spiritual discernment by a group requires intentional prayer and prac- with more than 60 CCCU boards. Trustees A good trustee reflects most of these: Work, Wisdom, Every year, a dozen or more new CCCU presidents are tice. The chair needs to lead in this, not allowing just a token nod to and presidents need our prayers now more Wealth, Witness, and Wallop (influence). selected. All boards should have succession policies in the spiritual calling of the institution. Jesus’ analogy of the vine in than ever. These proven best practices are place. Recruitment should be assisted by search experts. RISK MANAGEMENT John 15:5 is the key: Our culture challenges us to be in the world but critical in 2021. When a vacancy is sudden, an interim presidency often not of the world. Without board leadership to keep Christ at the center COVID-19 was a wake-up call. Risk management is allows the campus time for reflection, prayer, and a bet- of mission, culture will eat away at what makes CCCU institutions so TRUSTEESHIP now center stage. COVID-19-related decisions will ter selection process. The transition process for the out- special — and vulnerable. lead to survival, dissolution, or merger. Similarly, going and the incoming presidents needs creative board It is disciplined but rewarding work, not just an honor. To be ef- there are other external disruptions that require ad- guidance. Every incumbent needs ongoing encourage- TIME MANAGEMENT fective, trustees should learn something weekly that helps in their vance thinking and new strategies, such as online ment, annual performance reviews, fair compensation, key roles. Presidents can customize recommendations by interest and Boards spend way too much time listening to reports and drifting into learning, the potential loss of government funding, maybe an outside coach, and the benefits of two execu- committee assignment. Most trustees want to learn more about good administrative issues. Boards must govern well so administrators can and new regulations related to sexual orientation and tive sessions at every board meeting (a short one at the governance and invest more in it. lead well. Agendas, policy development, and reporting should be guid- gender identity. beginning without the president, and the second at the ed by board leaders. When the president and cabinet want advice, they end with the president). All this keeps the president and BOARD CHAIRS should ask anyone — whether individual trustees or outside experts GOVERNANCE board in alignment and allows trust to grow. — but they should do that outside of board and committee meetings. Board chairs are the key to moving governance from good to great. I like smaller boards than the current Christian col- The role takes at least five hours a week. Chairs manage the board; BOARD EVALUATIONS lege average of 20-21. Smaller boards can and should BOARD POLICIES presidents manage the institution. The chair-president partnership involve more non-trustees in governance. Committee Boards develop habits and attitudes that resist change is critical to improving governance. By default, presidents often lead Board Policy Manuals are common now, but to keep all ongoing poli- charters need to be reviewed every year and allow a and keep them from improving. Every few years, the the board if the chair doesn’t. Chairs ensure future board leaders are cies in one organized document the manual needs attention at every minority of non-trustees on some committees. Ad hoc entire board structure and process, including board being recruited and developed. meeting. Presidents should make recommendations in advance. Cur- task forces should be used more, where external ex- and committee meetings, need evaluation. Every rent policies clarify roles, keep the board focused, the administration perts can be appointed for short-term, very focused trustee whose term is coming up should be evaluated BOARD PROFILE study and recommendations. Other task forces could by fellow trustees before the too-frequent “automatic” guided, and accountability clear. With wonderful exceptions, Christian college boards are still too include trustees, staff, and outside friends of the insti- election to another term. Overall, a culture of evi- DR. BOB ANDRINGA was CCCU president from 1994 to 2006. Since white, too male, and too old. Diversity of ethnicity, gender, and age is tution. Advisory groups bring ongoing fresh thinking dence, including spiritual development, is critical for 1986, he has trained or consulted with more than 500 ministry CEOs

important. It speaks to the populations we need to attract and retain. to governance and administration. AdobeStock high-performing boards. and boards. Bob and his wife, Sue, live in Scottsdale, Arizona.

48 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 49 ON THE SHELF | INTERVIEW

His response is, "Well, what are you tolerating then?" Tolerance is not a synonym for affec- tion; it is something you're overlooking Restoring a Broken Nation to accept somebody into the body poli- How CCCU institutions can help heal a deeply divided society. tic. So my book is not a call for kumbaya for everybody to love each other. We have to have a basic commitment that AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID FRENCH says, "Each one of us is entitled to build our own home within this land," and THE POLITICAL AND CULTURAL discourse I connect it to Micah 4:4, a verse that over the past few years in the United States has reached Lin-Manuel Miranda re-popularized through George Washington [in Hamil- new levels of animosity and division. Arguments on the ton]. In reality, George Washington used value and role of education, religion, free speech, free this verse almost 50 times in his writings expression, and moral character are but a few of the in describing the new nation that he was topics that dominate headlines and political debates. leading: "Every man shall sit under his Because of their religious character and convictions as own vine and his own fig tree, and no well as their work in higher education, Christian colleg- one shall make him afraid." It's a beautiful depiction of a es and universities are at a unique crossroads of these David French is a Barry Corey is Great diagnostic. Let's talk about prescription. What pluralistic society that cuts against the grain of our cur- conversations, and navigating them is increasingly religious freedom president of Biola are some of the suggestions you offer in the book to rent thinking, which seems to be, "You can't have your tricky when the divisions are ever deepening. advocate, cultural University (La Mirada, vine or fig tree unless you agree with me, unless you're commentator, and author CA) and author of combat these troubling trends of division? As someone who has spent the majority of his ca- part of my tribe or my coalition." of Divided We Fall. Love Kindness. There's a necessity of a heart change, and there's a necessity of reer focusing on religious rights issues, and as a CCCU some policy changes. The heart change has to proceed the pol- graduate himself (of Lipscomb University in Nash- At Biola, I talk about living a life with what I call icy changes. Otherwise, there's no will for the policy changes. a firm center and soft edges. By firm center, I re- ville, Tennessee), David French is very familiar with For the benefit of those who haven't read the book yet, So what are the heart changes? Well, one of the things that ally mean a commitment to that which is true, and the challenges facing Christian higher education and provide a quick summary. we have seen is that amongst hyper-partisans — those indi- above all, God's truth. Soft edges means hospi- American society more broadly. French’s professional viduals who are truly driving American political discourse — Essentially, the whole thesis is in the first paragraph, and it tality and kindness, especially towards those we experience includes serving at the American Center there's an increasing desire to shun accommodation in favor makes two declarations. One is we cannot guarantee the contin- don't think like, or vote like, or believe like. So, for Law and Justice, the Alliance Defending Freedom, of domination. [Their] goal is not to just defeat somebody ued unity of the United States. Why? Because there is no single considering the role of the Christian college in this, and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education politically or to slowly but steadily create cultural change, truly important social, cultural, political, or religious force that and reflecting on your own formation at Lipscomb, (FIRE), as well as working for many years as a political but to crush, to destroy, to annihilate, and to eradicate [their is pulling Americans together more than it is pushing us apart. unpack the importance of a winsome conviction — opponents] from the public square. and cultural commentator for National Review, TIME, Whether it's the concept of negative polarization, where we the winsomeness being the soft edges, the convic- You see some of this in cancel culture, properly understood. and The Dispatch. His newest book, Divided We Fall: join a political party not so much because we love that party's tion being the firm center. America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Na- positions but because we despise or fear of the other side, or Now, that's a very fraught term because cancel culture is not When we're talking about how does the United States — tion, was released in September 2020 and explores the it's the big sort, where we are clustering into like-minded com- any criticism you receive; cancel culture is not the same as con- this unique nation, this unique culture — function best threat our current division poses to the very unity of munities, when you cluster with people of like-mind, you tend sequences for bad acts. More properly understood, cancel cul- and how is it designed to function, one of the things that the United States. to become more extreme. [In the book,] I walked through all ture is an extremely, excessively punitive action against speech I think is a really important concept that we don't talk of these big, sweeping cultural developments and showed that that is relatively mainstream within what is called the Overton Barry Corey, president of Biola University (La Mi- about enough is ordered liberty. This is a concept that you they're pulling us apart to the point where our divisions and our window of American pop culture and political discourse. That rada, California), talked with French about the book could write books on, but let me just oversimplify [it] for a animosity are growing so great that we are going to put strains kind of cancel culture mentality, properly understood, is evi- and what Christian college and university leaders can minute through two Founding Fathers' quotes. on our union. dence of this desire to dominate rather than accommodate. do to combat the current divides, particularly when One is the famous declaration in the Declaration of I think nothing illustrates the combination of animosity and One of the things that I try to do in the book is say, "We it comes to training up the next generation of lead- Independence that we're “endowed by our Creator with division more than what happened on January 6th, which was have to rediscover what actual tolerance is." What is actual ers. The conversation has been edited for length. certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, lib- unthinkable even as recently as January 5th. If you had said that tolerance? There's a person who writes under the pseud- erty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Jefferson goes on to the Capitol was going to be overrun and invaded on January onym Scott Alexander, a psychologist living in Deep Blue say, essentially, this is why governments were instituted WATCH THE FULL VIDEO 5th, someone would have said, "You're an alarmist. You're pearl- America, and he writes about how he talks to his progres- among men; the primary role of the government is to pro- CONVERSATION clutching. It's absurd. It's ridiculous." What happened on Janu- sive friends. He says, "Are you tolerant?" They'll say, "Yeah, tect this liberty. That's like the mission statement of the ary 6th was the product — and hopefully the end, but it may not absolutely tolerant. I love people regardless of race, sex, gen- Visit the CCCU’s YouTube account at United States of America. Aspirational — it was not lived be — of years of accumulated animosity and division and, often, der identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity." Then Scott says, www.youtube.com/CCCUVideo. up to, we know, and is still not fully lived up to. But that just outright hatred. "Well, what's wrong with those people?" Their response is,

Photos courtesy of David French and Biola University of David French courtesy Photos AdobeStock "Well, nothing. Of course, nothing is wrong with them." was the aspiration. …

50 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 51 But then John Adams turns around to thrive as charlatans for so long, that I spoke at John Brown University [in Si- Now, that works in a criminal justice what walking humbly often means is and says in a letter to the Massachusetts was dispiriting. But when the charlatans loam Springs, Arkansas] early in 2020, system that has been set up as an adver- when you look at any given huge issue — Militia, basically, look, this Constitution were discovered, nobody was saying that and I said those words —"Avoid the par- sarial system with rules, ethical boundar- abortion, racism, economic inequality, provides us with liberty that if we exer- … [what they were doing] was actually tisan mind." I did not mean don't vote ies, and rules of evidence. When you're a you name it — and you begin with these cise it and if we're libertine with it, we okay. Once they were found out, then for partisans. I did not even mean don't Christian interacting with a culture, any two statements: "This is really hard," would turn the United States into a mis- there was accountability. run for office as a Republican or Demo- sort of exaggeration or rationalization and, "I don't have all the answers." If you erable habitation. He has these famous We have a different kind of hypocrisy crat. What I meant was a mindset that comes across as inherently deceptive. See just begin like that, it can be quite trans- words: "Our Constitution was made for now. We have a kind of hypocrisy where [is like] being a lawyer. When you're a the truth and respond to the truth for formational in your interactions with a moral and religious people. It is wholly people either lie or defend lies, are abu- lawyer for a client, you amplify your cli- what it is. One of the things that I urge your fellow men. inadequate to the government of any sive or defend abusers, so long as what ent's virtues and minimize your client's students to do is reconnect with Micah other." they are accomplishing is deemed to be flaws. That's your day-to-day reality in 6:8: "What does the Lord require of you? I want to talk about the mind for a So, when I look at my [educational virtuous. This is specifically in politics litigation — my job is to make my cli- To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk minute. It’s a goal of Christian dis- experience], Lipscomb possessed liberty often. So, essentially, what we've said to ent look better than he is, and my op- humbly with the Lord your God." cipleship, within the framework of for a purpose. The purpose was to teach a lot of rising Christian generations is, Divided We Fall: ponent's job is to make my client look In this highly polarized moment, all the Christian academy, to learn to citizens of this country not just obedi- America’s Secession if you're a Christian in politics, your fo- worse than he is, and a jury sorts it all of us get the act justly part — “I know love the Lord with the mind. I was ence to Jesus Christ, but also Christian Threat and How to Re- cus is on issues, okay? Is religious liberty out. But when you adopt the partisan what's right. I know what's right, and just recently listening to Ed Stetzer, store Our Nation citizenship within this community. In being protected? Is abortion being op- mind, you essentially become an unpaid I'm going to pursue what is right” — but who’s at Wheaton College [in Whea- my mind, when you look at each one of By David French posed? Then we don't talk about means lawyer for one party or the other party. these are three interlocking obligations. ton, Illinois], on NPR, where he said, (St. Martin's Press) these CCCU universities as its own vine to those ends. You're always looking at ways to amplify We forget the love of mercy — or de- "I think the scandal of the evangeli- and its own fig tree, a lot of times, we Now, think about how different that what's good about your side and mini- pending on the translation, love kind- cal mind today is the gullibility that think, “Well, how could we make sure is from almost every other area of life. mize what's bad, and then flip it around ness — and we absolutely forget walking so many have been brought into If you're looking at a young Christian that vine and fig tree is completely safe on the other side. humbly. In the political context, I think conspiracy theories, false reports, from outside attack?” That is important, businessman, would you say, "Your pur- but [we] also [need to ask,] “What do we pose, Christian businessman, is to make do within that vine, and what do we do THE PURPOSE [OF money"? No. You would say, "There's a within that fig tree?” Each Christian in- holistic gospel-centered approach in your Council for Christian Colleges & Universities stitution in this country has their differ- CHRISTIAN HIGHER presence in your company." … COLLABORATION IN ent theologies, their different purposes, "Well, your purpose, Christian in CCCU COUNCIL FOR CHRISTIAN DOCTORAL EDUCATION FORUM their different mission statements, but EDUCATION politics, is to pass laws." Hmm, no. That COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES it's that exercising of liberty for a virtu- is a purpose, but what we've often said ous purpose when these universities are at IS] TO TEACH about politics is we define ourselves by their best. the issues and not by our conduct, not by CITIZENS OF THIS our alliances. So we have created a kind One of my concerns is when our ris- COUNTRY NOT JUST of persistent hypocrisy that we don’t even ing generation of students — and defend because we have defined the ob- Learn about our no-fee tuition and this is not new — see in leaders a ject of our engagement as issue-focused graduate tuition discounts at OBEDIENCE TO messiah.edu/gradcost less-than-virtuous way of living — almost to the exclusion of everything even though [those leaders] are JESUS CHRIST, BUT else, which has allowed us to engage and proclaiming virtuous truths of how defend an awful lot of godless behavior, they live. It's a terrible model for so long as it has a godly goal. Earn your Choose from ALSO CHRISTIAN specialized Christians, and this hypocrisy hap- Master of Arts in concentrations in pens on the left and the right. Any CITIZENSHIP So what do you have to say to these academic support, students and leaders at Christian college athletics thoughts to encourage our students leadership, strategic on what they're seeing right now? WITHIN THIS colleges about being characterized Christian Doctoral Education: leadership, student by the way we interact about poli- affairs or an There are a couple of categories of hy- Experience the academic distinction of a individualized COMMUNITY. tics and issues, and not just known Innovation in Times of Change pocrisy that we've seen over the last sev- nationally ranked Christian university. concentration. by our own policy differences? How September 29 – October 1, 2022 eral decades. 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52 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 53 and more. … If there ever should be tempt, and we're sick of it.” The fact of grievance has been empowered by an aw- You [said] earlier that a byprod- hoping to protect historically marginal- people who care about the truth, the matter is there have been an awful lot ful lot of lies. It's been empowered by a lot uct of our polarized age is a can- ized communities. Yet it's the histori- it should be people who call them- of people who have disrespected Chris- of people who are quite self-interested in cel culture. We feel this tension at cally marginalized communities that selves followers of Jesus. I think tians unfairly. Absolutely, you can find hyping your fear, and your concern, and Christian college campuses where have led the battle for free speech. … pulpits and Christian colleges and that. But the problem with that is that your anger, and your rage. It provides we want to champion viewpoint I remember talking to Reverend Walter universities need to ask the ques- our response should not be deep-seated these other people with money. It pro- diversity from a biblically faith- Fauntroy, who was one of the people tion, 'How are we going to disciple anger and grievance — that is totally vides them with power, and all of these ful perspective but also be care- who helped found the Congressional our people so that they engage the wiping out the “walk humbly and loving lies make you vulnerable to more lies. ful of what’s being said. What Black Caucus, instrumental in the Civ- world around them in robust and kindness” parts of Micah 6:8. … I'll give you a perfect example. If your would you say is the way forward il Rights Movement, asking him, "Why Christ-like ways?'" How would you What I'm beginning to find is that belief is that, for example, the Left hates on Christian college campuses as was there such progress in civil rights in respond to that? it is becoming increasingly difficult to you — not that individuals on the Left it relates to the delicate nature such a short amount of time relatively The gullibility point there is tied also to speak to Christian audiences unless you hate you, but that the whole Left hates of what should be said and what CHRISTIAN historically speaking in the late '50s two other issues: fear and anger. These is- first walk into the conversation and say, you — it is a short trip from there to be- shouldn't be said? moving into the early and mid '60s?" "You're good people. You're awesome sues are huge, and I think a lot of people lieving that the Left would steal an elec- I went to Lipscomb University from UNIVERSITIES His answer was really interesting: people. The Left is bad. Okay. I have this who are intellectual Christians on Twit- tion. So if you have this background level '87 to '91. At the time, Lipscomb was "Almighty God and the First Amend- nit to pick." So there's this sense in which SHOULD NOT ter are missing what is happening at the of anger and suspicion of hostility, the a much more socially and politically ment." He said, "The First Amendment you first have to meet the grievance. The grassroots in some of the wildest and next turn of the screw is easy. Each layer conservative place. … But I had a much gave us the ability to speak, and Al- difficulty with that is there needs to be JUST MODEL THE most bizarre conspiracy theories held of animosity breeds the next layer, and healthier free speech environment at mighty God softened men's hearts." some repenting from the anger and the closely to the heart by evangelicals. Also, so we have a lot of work to do, because Lipscomb University than I had at Har- So one of the things that I try to do grievance before we can break through PROTECTION IN a lot of people are missing this sense of this is the product of decades of stoking vard Law School, where people were is I try to teach people that free speech and really dive into discipling. It's very “we have been disrespected, we have of anger and range, and there is just an shouting you down if they disagreed SPEECH BUT THE has value by itself. That doesn't mean hard to do that, because a lot of that been shamed, we've been held in con- ocean of grievance out there. with you. … The interesting thing about that there shouldn't be rules against Lipscomb was that we didn't really even VIRTUOUS EXERCISE defamation, threats, or obscenity, but have a speech code other than, "Don't free speech has value. I think that Chris- curse." We questioned all the tenants OF SPEECH. ... CCCU tian universities by and large should not of the faith. We had healthy robust dis- just model the protection of speech but cussions of politics, of faith, of culture UNIVERSITIES HAVE should model the virtuous exercise of — all with basically clean language. So speech. Going back to ordered liberty, essentially, Lipscomb welcomed view- DONE, BY AND that's hand in hand: the liberty for vir- point diversity even though there was tuous purpose, and to model that dis- still an overwhelming ideological and LARGE, A GOOD JOB cussion. When I go to a Christian col- lege, I often feel more free to speak than YEARS religious point of view. … AT CULTIVATING Twenty years ago, it was much more almost anywhere else. Not because I'm a OF MARRIAGE Christian there — I'm often disagreeing common for free speech to be inhib- AN ATMOSPHERE 1950-2020 ited top-down. By that, I mean actual completely with an awful lot of people — but I think CCCU universities have laws and regulations passed by public OF REAL DEBATE, universities, called speech codes, that done, by and large, a pretty good job at CONGRATULATIONS violated the Constitution. … Begin- DISAGR EEMENT, cultivating an atmosphere of real debate, ning in about 2014, 2015, the demand disagreement, and dialogue. … MYRON & ESTHER for censorship began to bubble from AND DIALOGUE. One thing real quick about that the bottom up. So what once was a “walk humbly” aspect [of Micah 6:8]. AUGSBURGER dean of students saying, "You can't say I think if you're in leadership, fostering that," became 200 students in the quad an atmosphere of free speech is a mani- Myron served as CCCU president from saying, "You can't say that," which is a festation of walking humbly, because what does that do? It provides a permis- 1988-1994. The CCCU is grateful for all very different free speech challenge. … That's very difficult. sion structure for criticizing authority. God has done through the Augsburger’s Scripture says we see through a glass lives, their exemplary marriage, and their I think what we have to do is go back to first principles of teaching peo- darkly; we know in part. When we're faithful and tireless commitment to ple that free speech has value. It's not permitting a structure of free speech, Christian higher education. just that good speech has value; free it's a very tangible way of saying, "I speech has value. A lot of the efforts to don't have all the answers. I need to censor now come from people who are hear more."

54 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 55 ON THE SHELF | REVIEW The greatest threat to the In Who Will Be a Witness? Hart is not sim- ply calling the church to action in the public Church today is division. Becoming Brave Witnesses square. Living out the call of Jesus requires a complete reorientation of our lives. No longer How can Christians disagree without fighting? Two new books offer important insight for biblical can we carry out our faith in the cloistered safety of church walls. Nor can we participate justice in this moment. in a “domesticated” faith that prioritizes indi- vidual salvation over a holistic journey towards BY SANDRA MAYO God’s deliverance, justice, and shalom. Hart asks, “Who will be a witness?” not as a rhetorical device, but as an invitation to ignite JUST AS HIGHER EDUCATION was adjusting to the Becoming Brave shares McNeil’s evolution as a practitioner Christian activism. For Hart, direct involve- uncertainty that had resulted from COVID-19 in 2020, the of racial reconciliation. It also shares the biblical narrative of ment in the work of justice is a necessary part murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Ar- Esther, a young Jewish woman who was orphaned at an early of the church’s vocation. bery prompted a national reckoning with racism and a global age, lived in exile in Persia with her cousin, Mordecai, and be- But to fully live into its ecclesial vocation, outcry. Then, on Jan. 6, 2021, the world watched as rioters came an agent of God’s justice in the world. As an immigrant Hart argues, the church must also remember stormed the U.S. Capitol with symbols of white supremacy on in a foreign land, Esther had to conceal her true identity to its “troubled history” and identify the roots of full display. It was another painful and visible reminder of how ensure her safety. She had to learn a new language. She had Christendom and colonialism. Hart exposes far we are as a society from eliminating racial injustice. In this to navigate an unfamiliar cultural context. Among the most how supremacist mindsets have been woven context, Brenda Salter McNeil’s Becoming Brave: Finding the vulnerable in society, she was also among the most unlikely into American Christianity and “mangled” Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now and Drew Hart’s Who Will to replace the King of Persia’s former queen. But that’s exactly the church’s sense of vocation. For example, Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and De- what happened: Esther’s journey from exile to palace living was he traces Christian nationalism’s origins back liverance offer a prophetic call to faith-formed social activism. part of God’s divine plan for deliverance for the Jews in exile. to Constantine the Great, the first Roman em- In today’s polarized context, Christians often have peror to claim Christianity. During his reign, McNeil’s book combines autobiographical and biblical nar- In following the journey of Esther, Becoming Brave reveals committed, biblical rationales for very different positions. Constantine offered financial support to the ratives to cast a vision for courageous action in such a time as how God wants to use each of us for faithful action in the How can Christians navigate disagreements with both this. With humility and honesty, she describes the question, world. McNeil argues that we are all “unlikely activists,” but church and promoted Christians into office, thereby giving the church more political pow- truth and love? Tim Muehlhoff and Rick Langer provide asked at the end of a multiday workshop on racial reconciliation we are called to respond to what God is doing in the world as er and, for the first time, conflating Christian- lessons from communication studies, conflict theory, where she spoke, that spurred her to move beyond comfortable Christians. Becoming Brave is an encouragement to those who ity with the Empire’s interests. and church history on how to negotiate differing biblical conversations about racial reconciliation: “When are you going don’t feel ready or qualified. It is a charge to the church to be Who Will Be a Witness? is a call for the convictions in order to move toward Christian unity. to start talking about justice?” As McNeil allowed this question active participants in the work of justice. But McNeil doesn’t church to grapple with the set of myths that to sink into her heart, God began to reveal new insights about leave readers without direction; she provides a Gospel-inspired continue to fuse Christianity with power, what the work of racial reconciliation looks like on the ground. path to eradicating systemic racism that requires not only bold politics, and patriotism. It is also a call for the action but even bolder hope. church to follow in the way of Jesus and to At a time when such audacious hope is needed for sustained fulfill the greatest commandment — to love Tim Muehlhoff is a professor of communication at social action and change, Hart’s Who Will Be a Witness? is prov- God and one’s neighbor as yourself. In the Biola University and a speaker and research consultant idential, inspiring, and instructive. It offers a call to the church tradition of Howard Thurman, Hart reminds for the Center for Marriage and Relationships. Becoming Brave: Finding to rediscover its ecclesial vocation of justice and to restore its the Courage to Pursue readers that love is not theoretical; nor is it sen- Racial Justice Now public witness in the world. The book begins with analysis timental. For Hart, love must seek to restore Richard Langer is a professor at Talbot School of By Brenda Salter McNeil of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign, one of the most impor- full human dignity. It must also be rooted in tant desegregation campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Theology and director of the Office for the Integration (Brazos Press) an understanding that our liberation is bound of Faith and Learning at Biola University. Hart focuses on the significance of Dr. Martin Luther King together and that there is an inherent oneness Jr.’s decision to move forward and violate a state circuit court designed in creation. If we are to love God injunction against the protests, which led to his arrest on April and our neighbors, our faith must be enacted Download a FREE group resource at 12 — Good Friday. Hart draws a parallel between King’s civil through a Jesus-shaped grassroots participa- ivpress.com/winsome-conviction. disobedience on Passover and Easter weekend and Jesus’ revo- tion in God’s work of deliverance. This is the lutionary action on the first Good Friday. Both provided a revo- mission and vocation of the church. lutionary public witness. Both demonstrated strategic disrup- Like McNeil, Hart provides a way forward tion against an established order that served to oppress. Both for the church to live into its justice-oriented modeled nonviolent resistance. Both joined in God’s delivering mission and vocation. It is this vision for the shop ivpress.com presence and, in so doing, provided a model for discovering the church that also provides important lessons for ecclesial vocation of justice. Christian higher education:

56 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 57 TRANSLATE THE PASSION FOR YOUR TOGETHER, THEY OFFER TIMELY GUIDANCE CAUSE INTO SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS. FOR THOSE WITHIN CHRISTIAN HIGHER EDUCATION TO FIND APPLICATION FOR THEIR GOSPEL HOPE. THEIR WORDS ARE A STEADY VOICE AND NEEDED SALVE IN A TIME OF DISRUPTION AND FEAR.

Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God’s Justice, Love, and Deliverance the institution. Where might campuses can faithfully participate in bringing By Drew G.I.Hart real, tangible justice on earth. (Herald Press) find opportunities to repent and deepen their institutional commitments to jus- Orthopathy. We must rethink our tice? What is the collective response to discipleship practices with an under- Leveraging the educational benefits lessons learned? How can institutions standing that helping students move of activism can help us fulfill the face the past, recognizing moments toward shalom is also about drawing mission of Christian higher educa- where God was at work? How can this their hearts to God’s heart for recon- tion. The college campus provides an discovery process serve as a reminder of ciliation and justice. ideal space for students to ask difficult Christian higher education’s essential This is the picture of a holistic love questions, reflect on the social condi- purpose and provide hope for the future? that forms the essential link between tions around them, and become spirit- Christ’s work of deliverance and the Spiritual and vocational discern- led critical thinkers who will make their church’s vocation in the world. ment are the work of equipping stu- faith active in the world. How can we Both McNeil and Hart help to ex- dents for shalom. Hart and McNeil help students put their education into pand our imagination of what can be practice? When students ask for advice both articulate the need to cultivate different coming out of this time. They or support, what does our response say a Jesus-formed discipleship that helps remind us that this moment requires The Nonprofi t Playbook is the ONE book that you need to make your about our commitment to equity and students understand that the larger pur- courageous leadership, an honest reck- nonprofi t a sustainable success. From e ective fundraising to hiring the justice? As campus leaders, how might pose of their faith is for participation in oning with Christian nationalism and we leverage our educational mission to a broken world. In this time, how must supremacist mindsets, and restoration of best people to building a vibrant board, this practical step by step guide will help students develop a holistic, active Christian colleges and universities think the church’s true vocation. In their call help you create a customized roadmap for enhancing and protecting your discipleship that makes explicit the con- differently about preparing students for to activism, McNeil and Hart provide mission. Whether you are new to nonprofi t service, a seasoned leader or a nections between their inner spiritual vocation that includes a picture of sha- valuable lessons for reorienting institu- lives and their public witness? Above all lom? How can Christian higher educa- tional life toward justice and shalom, board member, The Nonprofi t Playbook is for you. else, how might we help students estab- tion lay out a vision of biblical shalom providing a revolutionary response that lish right motives for their activism by that invites students into the work of bears witness to Jesus. Together, they Translate your team’s learning into action by downloading a free copy of providing tools to galvanize their faith racial equity and justice? Hart suggests offer timely guidance for those within The Nonprofi t Playbook Workbook at www.elizabethmaring.com toward shalom? a three-pronged framework: Christian higher education to find ap- Restoring a common memory is es- Orthodoxy. We must teach basic plication for their Gospel hope. Their sential to the work of reconciliation doctrines and practices of historic words are a steady voice and needed Author Elizabeth Maring shares the winning strategies she has and justice. To be good stewards of the Christianity as a foundation for an salve in a time of disruption and fear. past and agents of change in the pres- activated life and faith. learned from working with nonprofi ts for over 35 years as a leader, Orthopraxy. We must provide op- SANDRA MAYO is vice provost of inclu- ent, colleges and universities can begin sive excellence at Seattle Pacific Univer- founder, lawyer and board member. She is available to consult with by examining the role of activism in the portunities for students to align their sity (Seattle, WA) and chair of the CCCU’s boards and leadership teams on board training, confl ict resolution, life, history, and faith commitments of everyday lives and actions so they Commission on Diversity and Inclusion. crisis management, and mission alignment. Contact her at [email protected] 58 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 ON THE SHELF | INTERVIEW

Helping Faculty Pursue Vocation Administrators can help faculty flourish, even in a pandemic.

AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTINA BIEBER LAKE

FOR CHRISTIAN COLLEGE and univer- Could you provide a quick summary of your book? sity faculty who are called to train up students I wrote the book arranged around the calendar year for academics. It to be the next generation of leaders in their starts with August and it ends with July, because the seasons of a teacher’s The Flourishing Teacher: field, it has been a difficult season. But in many life are very different from the seasons of many other jobs. There's a lot Vocational Renewal for ways, the pandemic has only compounded of energy in the fall, so teachers have different needs and desires in this a Sacred Profession existing stresses of academic life. Christina season, whereas you're exhausted in the spring, especially March or April. By Christina Bieber Lake Bieber Lake, the Clyde S. Kilby Professor of The point of the book is to help teachers get encouragement and inspira- (IVP Academic) English at Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL), tion as well as ideas that fit those particular seasons of their career. It's the hopes to help her fellow faculty rediscover book that I was hoping I could read as a younger professor that would their passion for their vocation and to thrive in contain practical help as well as spiritual inspiration. Yes. I always had cleared out that space get right back on the hamster wheel. ple once they actually try to practice it it, no matter the season. That’s why she wrote because that was a high priority to me. And the hamster wheel does not help is life-changing; it is career-changing. It The Flourishing Teacher: Vocational Renewal for Obviously, this year of teaching is a lot different than most, and I'm hoping that the pandemic did that you to be a better scholar or teacher, and changes your perspective. a Sacred Profession. I'm sure when you wrote your book, you were not expecting to for others. In the book, I mention it is certainly not a better person. Katie Dillon, the CCCU’s government be writing to a crowd reading it during a global pandemic. In important for people to know which of Right now, a lot of professors are In the book, you speak frequently of relations fellow, interviewed Lake about the this season, have you seen ways that your teaching liturgy has Gretchen Rubin's four personality types teaching from home, the space spiritual practices that have taught book and how CCCU administrators can changed or adapted? they are — obliger, upholder, questioner, where they would usually find rest. support their faculty during the pandemic or rebel. Those who are obligers or up- you a specific lesson in a specific I have been asked this a lot because of the way that it happened right at Are there ways that you have found and generally as they pursue their calling. The holders, they're the ones who either do season. Which of those practices the same time as my book was released. I think for me, the pandemic has helpful to separate the work and interview has been edited for length. For more everything because they've been asked to would you encourage CCCU faculty actually been better for some things. Teaching on Zoom is not great. But the rest, since it's all happening in information, resources, or to connect with Lake, do it or because they feel a strong internal and administrators to focus on in it has been helpful when it comes to things like meetings. the same area now? visit christinabieberlake.com. and external sense to do the things that the coming year? For instance, we would have our department meetings on Tuesdays at they've been asked to do. Faculty with I have to say that I got lucky on two 10:30. Well, Tuesdays and Thursdays are the days that I work from home, Definitely taking the Sabbath. I have these two personalities learned during the counts. My son is in high school and he and I need to have that time for my research. Before the pandemic, I would stressed it with fellow faculty, but I also is able to do his Zoom classes on his own, pandemic that so much of the stuff that spend time in class teaching students the drive out to Wheaton for a 35-minute meeting. It is not far, but after getting without as much help from us. In addi- Christina Bieber they do is really not worth their time. importance of Sabbath because of what dressed, driving out, and coming back, my whole morning is impacted. So tion, we have a large enough house that Lake is the Clyde For example, I go to campus to we were just talking about — the con- S. Kilby Professor I feel like the strategies I'm trying to teach in this book — about making I have my own study. For people who complete some tasks because I feel like stant work. Just because you can work of English at sure that you don't prep too much, making sure that you don't let this job aren't in that situation, you just have to Wheaton College it is important for me to complete them all the time does not mean you should. take over your life, making sure you have time to focus on your scholarly be more intentional and more creative (Wheaton, IL) there. I don't actually need to be there, There is a false belief that more time work and the things that are important to you in terms of advancing your in separating the two, and there's just and I'm happier when I'm not. The “no” spent working is going to make a bet- career — are in some ways easier because of the pandemic. no other way to do it. By intentionality, to the unspoken request for faculty ter product in the end. Sabbath-keeping Now that is offset, of course, by all the stress of the pandemic. The this means you have to talk to everybody to be at the office all the time was in a forces you to let go of the lawnmower Katie Dillon is the stress and daily anxiety make it very hard to focus on scholarly writing. sense said for the obligers because of the handle, as I say in my book, and realize involved, primarily your spouse, and ex- CCCU's government But I write about this in the book — teachers need a clear sense of the relations fellow and pandemic, and they learned the power how loud and vibrating it is when you’re plain what you need and why you need need to focus and to clear away distractions. a graduate of of that no — that they don't need to say mowing the lawn. It's only when you let it. “I need to have this time by myself Pepperdine University to work, even though I'm working from (Malibu, CA). “yes” all the time, because it takes away go that quiet comes in. You are allowed Yes, I think the pandemic opened up a space that allows us to from their own energy and their own to say to yourself, “I'm not going to do home — how can we trade off to make focus more on a rhythm of life that you talk about in the book. Do centeredness. I hope those lessons will that right now, and for this 24-hour pe- that happen?” A little creativity and in- you think you have more time now to put thought into what your stick for people, because what if we don't riod, I'm not going to be thinking about tentionality with regard to protecting

rituals and habits are when it comes to teaching? and Katie Dillon of Christina Bieber Lake courtesy Photos AdobeStock; actually learn that lesson? Then we'll just that.” The release that provides for peo- those spaces goes a long way.

60 ADVANCE | SPRING 2021 SPRING 2021 | ADVANCE 61 Thinking more broadly, now, how do faith and learning seminars with other time is required, because thinking takes you think administrators can help colleagues. The release time is essential, mental space and time; it is not always faculty narrow the gap between but so is cross-disciplinary time with something you can measure. GETTING LIFE’S their teaching and research respon- other colleagues about a topic that That's the thing that's hard for sibilities and generally help them will help you to focus your research. the administration sometimes to pursue both productivity and their If administrators can prioritize this in understand, because thinking is not God-given calling at the same time? your budget, it will pay off multiple- something that the faculty member can TRANSITIONS RIGHT fold, because if you want your faculty to “deliver.” I spent the first three months I would say that the first thing is mak- be productive, they need to have some of my sabbatical reading and thinking. ing sure the granting of sabbaticals is I cannot “deliver” that. However, what protected. It's becoming increasingly release from the heavy load of teaching, especially at small liberal arts colleges. I ended up writing was a much better challenging to have sabbaticals, with fi- book than if I had just tried to rush in We're not at research institutions where nances being the way they are, but sab- and write the book right away. I'm not the load is two-two, two courses per baticals are essential to productivity for saying that administrators should not semester. Wheaton’s load is three-three, faculty. It is a renewal. hold faculty accountable. Of course but most people have a four-four load or Related to that is providing they should. But giving space to think, even more. I can't even imagine doing opportunities for release time for your to read, to meet with other faculty in scholarly work with that many classes. So faculty in any way that you can. I would events like faith and learning seminars, you cannot expect your faculty members not be the scholar that I am today if or other forms of release time from with a four-four load to do reasonable it were not for a resource provided teaching, is essential. by Wheaton College, which is giving scholarly work and be good teachers. release time to faculty members to be in You have to acknowledge that release D. Michael Lindsay GRE on Life’s Most Important Choices WAIVED

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Have We Forgotten the “Least of These”?

BY EMMANUEL L. MCNEELY

IMAGINE THIS: You, a young teen- and universities must be led by biblical the protests, both peaceful and violent, ager, are filled with unparalleled excite- principles to provide special attention to of 2020 and 2021 must drive us to ac- ment from an acceptance letter from your their students who may suffer microaggres- tion. Racial reconciliation and harmony dream school. You imagine your upcom- sions, macroaggressions, and racial tension are foundational pillars in our Christian ing life at that dream school, where you taking place on and off campus grounds faith, so they must remain priorities with- will “find yourself,” pursue academic during their time as a student. in our academic institutions. goals, experience new opportunities, and The seemingly never-ending trend of But the question remains: “When will develop lifelong relationships, all with the unarmed Black men being murdered by we see positive change?” Ultimately, the hope of leaving an indelible mark on soci- police, the disproportionate impact of CO- answer depends on when a lack of diversity ety during a complex time in history. VID-19 on minority communities, and the will be recognized as an imminent threat Now picture yourself with that en- lack of representation for URM students to educational institutions. Moreover, if thusiasm while also arriving to a new and faculty all highlight systemic racism Christian colleges and universities are un- environment where you are in the ra- in America. It is impossible to understand able to increase the critical mass of URM cial or ethnic minority, wondering how and address the issues of URM students, students and faculty, there is a strong possi- your experience may differ from those of let alone provide solutions, without first bility that URM students and faculty may majority-culture students. You walk into acknowledging both the existence and det- only experience equitable representation in rimental effects of systemic racism. If there a sea of educational opportunities with non-Christian, secular academic institu- is hope for creating lasting change and bol- a freedom to both express yourself and tions. Frankly, this is a perilous reality that stering diversity on Christian campuses, boldly exercise your faith, yet there is a all Christian educators must aggressively strong trepidation about the lack of mi- there must be a resolve to diversify student contend with. nority representation within your school’s bodies, faculty, and leadership. In Matthew 25:40, Jesus states, “Inas- student body, faculty, and leadership. To achieve this goal, many colleges much as ye have done it unto one of the This is the reality for many underrep- and universities must first attain a “criti- least of these my brethren, ye have done resented minority (URM) students at- cal mass.” This concept of critical mass it unto me.” As Christian colleges and tending colleges and universities around refers to reaching a minimum threshold of universities, we must ask, “Who are the the globe. Particularly, this burden may URM students and faculty to effectively ‘least of these?’” Numerically speaking, be amplified at some Christian academic recruit and retain more racially diverse ALSO RECEIVE UP TO A the “least of these” are URM students on institutions. One may question, what re- students. We all know that generating di- sponsibility do colleges and universities versity within an organization is no small our campuses whose voices and perspec- have to recruit, engage, and enhance the task. Yet we must consider the current lack tives are muffled due to the lack of repre- overall experience of URM students on of diversity on campuses as a threat to the sentation. Thus, a renewed emphasis and their campuses? Let us pause here. educational experience of all students, concerted effort to implement new strate- Some will criticize that any “special” at- whether from minority or non-minority gies and programs to engage, recruit, and tention given to URM students is wrong backgrounds. Christian universities and support URMs must become the focus of and that resources must be evenly applied colleges have a responsibility to help cul- Christ-centered education. to all students on campus. Although it is tivate and challenge the worldview of true that all students deserve a safe and students. We must also acknowledge it is EMMANUEL L. MCNEELY is co-founder of the Dr. M.D. Project, an effort to increase equitable college experience, the dearth in impossible to facilitate this process respon- the number of underrepresented minori- racial diversity on many college campuses sibly without diversity of thought, experi- ties practicing medicine, and the 2021 suggests that special attention must be CCCU Young Alumni Award winner. He is ences, and racial backgrounds. pursuing his doctorate in medicine at Flor- brought those who are, numerically speak- The unsettling feeling that most ida Atlantic University’s Charles E. Schmidt

ing, the “least of these.” Christian colleges Americans experienced in witnessing College of Medicine. of Emmanuel L. McNeely courtesy Photo

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