How have you come to know, understand, feel, and define hospitality? Do you consider hospitality a necessary part of the fabric of Higher Education (e.g., community, discussion of ideas, relationships with the other) or not? How have you experienced and/or extended hospitality on campus as individual or as part of a community of believers? Looking forward to reading your thoughts/experiences. Please share them with grace, truth, and charity. What brings this topic to my mind at this time? On Monday and … [Read more...] about Hospitality in Higher Education
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Star Trek: The Right Stuff?
Note: Contains spoilers and has become more of a reflection than a review* ... Faith & Geekery claims Star Trek Will Rock the Summer. Yes, Star Trek features superb action, casting, soundtrack, and special effects. As a fan who only reached the theater on Monday (to distinguish myself from Trekkies who went to the early screening in uniform/costume on Thursday night), Star Trek not only fit in the 43 year history well enough, but also created the foundation for a future series which will boldly go where … [Read more...] about Star Trek: The Right Stuff?
Christianity needs to be unfashionable on campus
Would you agree or disagree with me that Christianity* is unfashionable on campus? If so, would you go further with me to argue that Christianity is even more unfashionable on campus than in our larger culture? Whether you agree or disagree with me that Christianity is unfashionable on campus, does Christianity need to be unfashionable on campus? And if so, why and how? … [Read more...] about Christianity needs to be unfashionable on campus
End the University as We Know It
Any responses to the NY Times piece End the University as We Know It? Another piece highlighting the concerns of specialization and the slave labor by graduate students in the research universities with diminishing chance of reward after pushing through the system. The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldn't conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. That's one of the main reasons we … [Read more...] about End the University as We Know It
March Madness!
As you have a passion for higher education, you no doubt follow March Madness with great interest and/or concern. So join me in swinging by Culture Making to wrestle with the 5 Culture Making Questions applied to March Madness: What does March Madness assume about the way the world is? What does March Madness assume about the way the world should be? What does March Madness make possible? What does March Madness make impossible (or at least a lot more difficult)? What new culture is created in … [Read more...] about March Madness!