Every year, tens of thousands of parents send their children off to Christian colleges and universities, investing in the professional and spiritual growth that such institutions offer. But what happens next? A PARENT'S GUIDE TO THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE gives answers to parents who want to know just where they're sending their children and their money. Other guides for parents of college students give information on the secular college experience, but this book provides important insight into the more comprehensive world of Christian education. 
Challenging parents to reconsider their understandings of what it means to be a more fully developed person in light of Christian faith, this book takes a theological approach that celebrates the presence of parents in the lives of their daughters and sons while exploring what that presence should look like during the transition to adulthood. Parents and students alike will benefit from A PARENT''S GUIDE TO THE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, which is designed to help parents more effectively support their children and understand the Christian college's unique role in nurturing holistic and transformational education.

A Parent's Guide to the Christian College: Supporting Your Child's Mind and Spirit During the College Years

Timothy W. Herrmann

Todd C. Ream

C. Skip Trudeau

Religion & Spirituality

Abilene Christian University Press

Guidance and encouragement for higher educational leaders facing the question of the sustainability of the current financial model.Just a few years into the twenty-first century, higher educational leaders face unanticipated and unparalleled financial challenges. Federal and state support dwindles while universities suffer from negative growth projections and anemic endowments. The costs of ''doing business'' in private higher education continue to rise sharply, with the average ''consumer'' struggling to pay even discounted tuition. Educational leaders face the question of the sustainability of the current financial model.This book guides and encourages a conversation that is critical for private colleges and universities. It is organized into three sections. Section One, ''Gaining a Vantage Point,'' includes a literature search reviewing decision-making processes in the light of complex financial pressures, then reports on a qualitative research project completed for this book surveying senior level executives of private higher educational institutions from across the U.S. Section Two, ''Understanding Higher Educational Finances,'' provides a ''primer'' on higher education's budgeting nomenclature and processes. Section Three, ''Preparing for Change,'' focuses on vital leadership principles for navigating change and includes a list of the critical issues facing educational leaders as they look to the future.

Funding the Future: Preparing University Leaders to Navigate the Coming Change

Business & Money

Stephen T. Beers

Paul Blezien

Industries

Despite the widely differing perspectives held by those who work in higher education, there is one goal upon which all educators and educational leaders agree: students should leave college stronger than they came. Now more than ever, today s students come to college with unique intellectual, emotional, relational, and spiritual challenges. They need more than appropriate curricula, programs, facilities, and resources. Educating college students well requires a concern for and commitment to a holistic vision of their care. This volume examines the calling that Christian educators in both curricular and cocurricular settings share in relation to the students they serve. Join this unique blend of experienced practitioners and researchers, including Miroslav Volf, Sharon Daloz Parks, and John Foubert, in considering how we can best nurture our students toward health, wholeness, and purpose.

A Calling to Care: Nurturing College Students Toward Wholeness

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

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