InterVarsity's Undergraduate Ministry at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) sponsored an Election Day panel on Religious and Secular Authority at Election Times. What an excellent idea! Why? Because the panel, which included myself and a CMU History faculty, provided an opportunity to publicly present and wrestle with difficult culture-making concerns in real time. I came away with the impression that some students, who wouldn't let us go, couldn't wait to field test some of the material in the midst of … [Read more...] about Government even without the fall?
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Political Expression on Campus, Take 2
Today, the Chronicle reports ($) on a new book, Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in American Universities, and a new article, "I Think My Professor Is a Democrat: Considering Whether Students Recognize and React to Faculty Politics," that look at political expression and influence on campus. The article, BTW, is written by April Kelly-Woessner and Matthew Woessner at Elizabethtown College and Penn State-Harrisburg, in my co-writer Tom Grosh's neck of the woods. Here's the Chronicle's quick take-away from Closed … [Read more...] about Political Expression on Campus, Take 2
Political Expression on Campus
Is there an election this year or something? Obviously, politics is on everyone's minds, but I don't want to get into a debate about politics, but rather a debate about, er, politics. Specifically, political expression on campus by faculty. Recently, the University of Illinois issued a memo directing its professors (as employees of the state) not to wear political buttons, put political bumper stickers on their cars, or attend political rallies on campus. The memo has since been modified, but is still an issue of … [Read more...] about Political Expression on Campus
Links of the Week
Christian Colleges Increase Diversity Inside Higher Ed, citing an analysis from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, notes that a number of colleges affiliated with ESN's partner, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, have seen a dramatic increase in African American enrollment. At Montreat College, in North Carolina, undergraduate black student enrollment increased from 3.7 percent in 1997 to 23 percent in 2007, according to the analysis. At Belhaven College, in Mississippi, black student … [Read more...] about Links of the Week