August 27, 2024
Point University Continues to Grow Enrollment Through Employer ‘Subscription’ Program
Point University continues to expand its enrollment through "subscription" agreements with Chick-fil-A and other companies.
Articles for tag: Adult Learners
February 26, 2020
Alberta Bible College Adapts to Meet Needs of Today's Church
By Chris Moon Stanley Helton believes Alberta Bible College is in the middle of a turnaround. The president of the Christian college in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has overseen doubling of the school’s enrollment during the past five years. Its adult learning population is starting to take off. And financially, the college finished 2019 in the black—the first time since 2014. “We’ve been steadily chipping away and putting things back in place,” Helton said. The turnaround has been five years in the making. The college hit hard times after several years of inconsistent leadership following the 26-year tenure of Ron Fraser
August 11, 2016
Why I Believe in Christian Higher Education
By Gene Harker These schools offer a unique value proposition, a both/and approach to education that makes them unique and invaluable. In the influential book Value Proposition Design, the authors propose that a business”s success is ultimately determined by its capacity to create value for consumers by meeting their needs and helping them solve problems.1 From this perspective, one might infer that Google is wildly successful because its search engine satisfies a thirst for knowledge, offering answers to questions ranging from where to find the nearest ATM to the symptoms of the Zika virus. Google is reported to process 40,000
August 18, 2014
A Contrarian Perspective on Today”s Christian College Students
By Jon Weatherly Professor of New Testament and Dean of the College of Bible and Theology, Johnson University, Knoxville, Tennessee Conventional wisdom about Christian colleges doesn”t strike me as all that wise. Let me explain why. Having spent more than half my life as a student or teacher in Christian institutions of higher learning, I feel like an expert. That is, I feel like an expert not in the reality of Christian higher education, but in the opinions that other people have about Christian college students. I have known many such students over the years, and some I have come
February 2, 2013
Lipscomb Goes Extra Mile with Opening of “Spark”
By Jennifer Johnson When the governor of Tennessee talked to Lipscomb University (Nashville, TN) about the need for local workforce development, the church of Christ-affiliated school began brainstorming ways to bring more graduate education opportunities to its community. But the result was far more than a few online classes or one-week seminars; the new “Spark” center in nearby Williamson County offers resources, meeting space, and the newest technology in a creative environment. “Typically an off-site academic facility will be in an office park, with the college investing just enough money to make it operational,” says John Lowry, executive director of
March 10, 2010
Interview with Keith H. Ray
Keith Ray By Brad Dupray Keith Ray is in his 12th year as president of Lincoln Christian University. Ray earned his bachelor”s and master”s degrees at Lincoln and his DMin in leadership and cultural studies at Trinity International University. He also served for a decade in preaching ministry in the local church. Ray came to Lincoln after an eight-year tenure at Dallas Christian College, where he served five years as president. Ray and his wife, Jeaneen, have been married more than 30 years and are blessed with three daughters and one granddaughter. What does a Bible college education do to
March 16, 2008
The Future of Christian Church Colleges
By John Derry For the past 20 years I”ve saved the annual Christian Standard issue that highlights enrollment statistics and recent developments in the colleges and universities of the Christian church. That file shows me just how much our schools have changed. We”ve expanded programs, added facilities, relocated to new campuses, changed names, and in some cases ceased to exist. Among the accredited colleges and universities of our fellowship, enrollment has increased more than 70 percent, with some institutions more than doubling in size since 1987. The most recent data for independent Christian church colleges indicates those schools now have
