Committing Academic Suicide

      Michael J. Bozack,   Surface Science Laboratory,    Department of Physics,   Auburn University   [Oct. 8, 2013]–It’s rare for me to walk among the crepe myrtles at Auburn University and not remember that the Christian life is high adventure, filled with...

Seeing Beyond GPA

Martin Root, College of Health Sciences, Appalachian State University [Sept. 24, 2013]– College is competitive. As instructors we wish it were not so. We wish that students would have the time, energy, and curiosity to enjoy the material we teach. But alas,...

Meet the Prof

Marianne Herr-Glaser, Department of Communications, Clemson University [Sept. 17, 2013]– Professors use various means to get acquainted with the students entering their classes each term. One example of a creative way to bridge the gap between perception and...

Small Beginnings

  Phil Bishop, Professor of Kinesiology, University of Alabama [Sept. 10, 2013]– In looking back at my own 30+ years as a Christian faculty member, I have done a lot of ministry activities.  I have introduced myself as a Christian at the start of the...

Fully Present

    Rick Hove,     Executive Director of Faculty Commons,     A Ministry of Cru [Sept.3, 2013]–  It may seem obvious, but we can be only one place at one time. Still, our minds race to the departmental meeting, to our unfinished applications, or to those yet to...

Christian Professors Make a Difference

Go to college and lose your faith? Less likely now than in years past. Sociologist Christian Smith of Notre Dame relays this encouraging information from his book Souls in Transition: the Religious & Spiritual Lives of Emerging Adults: “Among recently...