Campus Life
In Search of Community
- Discipleship & Christian Education
- Publisher: IVP Academic (InterVarsity Press)
- Published: 2019
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Publisher's Description
In 1990, under the direction of Ernest Boyer, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching published a classic report on the loss of a meaningful basis for true community on college campuses—and in the nation. Now this expanded editionof Campus Life: In Search of Community reintroduces educational leaders to the Boyer report's proposals while offering up-to-date analysis and recommendations for Christian campuses today. Editors Drew Moser and Todd C. Ream have assembled pairs of academic and student-development leaders from top Christian colleges to offer a hopeful update on the practical contributions of Christian higher education to the practice of community. This volume includes new chapters, the long out-of-printBoyer report in its entirety, and a discussion guide to facilitate team conversations. Higher education now stands at a critical point, yet the contributors to this expanded edition of Campus Life see current challenges as an opportunity to revive Boyer’s commitment to its formative power. Contributors include: Mark L. Sargent and Edee Schulze of Westmont College Randall Basinger and Kris Hansen-Kieffer of Messiah College Brad Lau and Linda Samek of George Fox University Stephen T. Beers and Edward Ericson III of John Brown University Paul O. Chelsen and Margaret Diddams of Wheaton College Doretha O'Quinn and Tim Young of Vanguard University Christian higher education now standsat a critical point, yet the contributors to this expanded edition of Campus Life see current challenges as an opportunity to revive Boyer's commitment to understanding the formative power of Christian higher education.
Endorsements (3)
“Ernest L. Boyer and his colleagues at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching published essential works on higher education, and Campus Life: In Search of Community was certainly among them. This important report was valuable to me as a university president when it was originally published. So often I would hear from faculty, students, and staff: 'You have a problem and you must solve it.' The key, I learned, was to shift the matter to 'We have a problem and we must do something about it.' But that shift is possible only when there is a real sense of campus community, a sense of belonging on the part of everyone. This fine volume is a valuable guide in building and maintaining a campus community. The editors of this expanded edition have done an important service not only by making Campus Life available again but also by combining it with essays focused on Christian campuses. As David Brooks suggests in his splendid forward, leaders of all colleges and universities can gain insights on building community from those campuses, whether or not they are faith-based.”
“This is a thoughtful, justice-oriented approach to thinking about some of the most difficult topics and challenges on college campuses today, as well as the obligations Christian colleges have to the world, their faculty and staff, and most of all, the students who attend them. A thorough and invaluable resource.”
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