The Christian University and the Struggle to Survive

What does it mean to be a Christian institution of higher education? More to the point, what does it mean, especially in this day and age, to be a Christian university? Or any kind of university, for that matter? This is a question that we are increasingly faced with. Unfortunately, it appears that at least […]

Another Elite Institution Capitulates to Student Pressure

A few weeks ago, Newsweek published an article interviewing Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., a Harvard professor and nationally recognized attorney, on the non-renewal of his and his wife’s contracts as faculty deans of Winthrop House, one of Harvard’s residential communities. Incidentally, the Sullivans were the first black faculty deans at Harvard. In short, the decision […]