https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqIWGAKDfa8 Earlier Bob Trube, Senior Area Director, IVCF/USA shared the transcript (with minor edits) of The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities, a presentation he gave at the IFES World Assembly (Oaxtepec, Mexico, 7/22/2015). Now the video is available online and the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) doesn't want you miss it! Furthermore, we encourage you to find an opportunity with peers to discuss the four "change" forces in the university that offer both challenges … [Read more...] about The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities (Video)
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The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) interrupts their regularly scheduled programming to bring you the transcript (with minor edits) of a presentation given by Bob Trube, Senior Area Director, IVCF/USA, at the IFES World Assembly (Oaxtepec, Mexico, 7/22/2015). In considering The University Today, Bob addresses four "change" forces in the university that offer both challenges to and opportunities for mission in the university. After presenting, he received a number of requests for … [Read more...] about The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities
Juggling the demands of higher ed
If you haven't had the 3+ hours necessary to watch the Youtube video of the Vanderbilt Town Meeting (1/31/2012), then I recommend this 6 minute and forty second highlight video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msT_lI7mNcA At present I don't have more to add to Prayerful consideration & Discussion: Vanderbilt Town Mtg. (2/2/2012), except to encourage you to gather with friends to process through your thoughts and then share your response with the Admissions office, Advancement/Alumni Office, and Chancellor's … [Read more...] about Juggling the demands of higher ed
Did You Make Any New Year’s Resolutions?
Last year, I resolved to keep track of every book I read in 2010, and I mostly did so. Here is my list of books I read in 2010, up to about November 15. That was when I came down with an awful case of bronchitis, which depleted my energy significantly for about 3 weeks. My books-per-week rate skyrocketed as I lay in bed, while my hours-updating-websites plummeted. I'll catch up with November and December soon. One of the first books I read in 2010 was Chip and Dan Heath's Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is … [Read more...] about Did You Make Any New Year’s Resolutions?