At the close of the chapel service February 8 at Asbury University, students stayed. And a spiritual awakening started. Since then, daily reports across social media are documenting this revival. So I won’t rehash the details here. If you need to catch up, start here and here for solid and reliable perspectives. This revival is growing, thriving, and spreading. Hundreds of people are lining up at Asbury to participate. Cedarville University, Lee University, and others…
Trends in academia tend to trickle down into the public square as students graduate, take jobs, and bring these ideologies into the marketplace. That’s how we got Critical Race Theory in the public schools. That’s why revisionist history is reshaping the American narrative. And it’s why we are suddenly so confused about what we are allowed to say. You can’t say that! Colleges and universities are spearheading a ban on words and phrases that they…
Prior to the pandemic, online education was already thriving. And industries that require mostly computer work were seeing the benefits of letting people labor from home. But the pandemic pushed the workforce to remote platforms and accelerated the progress in both education and industry toward remote work. And along with it, something else escalated. Cheating. The increase of online and remote work has resulted in an equally astounding escalation in unethical behavior. People who work…
Summer is winding down, and students are returning to college. Whether they learn while seated, while remote, or while masked or unmasked will largely hinge on how your institution is waging the war against Covid. But either way, colleges will be back in action. But another war continues to rage in our colleges. It’s the war against objective truth. Higher education is soaked in worldviews and values that challenge, ignore, or overtly attack a…
It was 1981, the start of the academic year, I was a sophomore, and I had just ascended to the exalted position of Editor-in-Chief of our college campus newspaper. I was smart enough to know that our bi-monthly publication wasn’t going to rock the world, but prideful enough to think it should. And I was also inexperienced enough to mistake passion for substance. That semester I wrote a column that taught me a lesson about…
In the last few weeks, educational institutions at all levels have announced their plans for students to return, or not return, to in-person instruction, remote learning options, or some hybrid of the two. And all over America parents of school-aged kids are either cringing or celebrating. It’s the same for college students. Confused, crying, or singing. It all depends on what their institution decided to do this fall. Stay home and receive instruction remotely, come…
On March 12, fifty people were charged in “the college admissions scandal.” Unless you have been asleep this month, you know what I am talking about. Wealthy people bribed and cheated to assure their kids a path into elite universities. Among those scooped up in the net were actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, so they have become the faces of the scandal. It’s a complicated mess and has brought various reactions from all kinds…