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Many colleges and universities informally highlight the value of
mentoring among academic professionals. Yet scholars often lack
clear definitions, goals, practices, and commitments that help them
actually reap the benefits mentoring offers. As new faculty members
from younger generations continue to face evolving challenges while
also reshaping institutions, their ability to connect with more
experienced mentors is critical to their vocations-and to the
future of higher education. In Cultivating Mentors, a distinguished
group of contributors explores the practice of mentoring in
Christian higher education. Drawing on traditional theological
understandings of the mentee-mentor relationship, they consider
what goals should define such relationships and what practices make
their cultivation possible among educators. With special attention
to generational dynamics, they discuss how mentoring can help
institutions navigate generational faculty transitions and
cultivate rising leaders. Contributors include: David Kinnaman Tim
Clydesdale Margaret Diddams Edgardo Colon-Emeric Rebecca C. Hong
Tim Elmore Beck A. Taylor Stacy A. Hammons This book offers
valuable insights and practical recommendations for faculty
members, administrators, and policy makers. Whether pursuing their
vocation in Christian or secular institutions, Christian scholars
will benefit from the sharing of wisdom mapped out in Cultivating
Mentors.
With rose gold accents a part of every illustration, celebrate the
glory of the Lord with this spiritually uplifting and
stress-relieving coloring book, pairing 30 inspiring line-drawings
with expressions of praise from the Bible. Focusing in particular
on the Psalms, the classic passages showcased in Color and Praise
help you celebrate your faith in a different way, through the
mindful activity of coloring. Each of the Bible selections offers
heart-lifting praise to God, and is accompanied by a
black-and-white line drawing highlighted with intricate rose-gold
detailing inspired by the beautiful artwork used to illuminate
early Christian manuscripts. Inside Color and Praise you'll find:
30 spreads printed on high-quality art paper, each featuring an
inspiring Bible passage and a beautiful geometrical abstract
illustration with rose-gold detailing to color Artwork templates
which include "ghost" shapes to color, minimizing outlines An
instructional section which covers basic techniques for using art
pens, pencils, and paints Blank pages to record and illustrate your
own favorite passages from Scripture Whether you use pens, pencils,
markers, acrylic or watercolor paints, once you've finished
coloring, the text and drawings in Color and Praise can be removed
using scissors for framing or display. No matter your artistic
level, coloring is a fun way to express your creative gifts-a
wonderful meditative act that celebrate the greatness of God and
can help enhance your spiritual journey and deepen your faith.
In the 1990s, Christian colleges and universities experienced a
record boom in students and employees. However, less than twenty
years later Christian institutions experienced new challenges
spurred on by four major changes: first, the "Great Recession" of
2008 and widespread debt; second, declining birthrates in certain
regions of the United States; third, the passing of the Affordable
Care Act, which raised the question of whether Christian institutes
were required to cover contraceptives; and fourth, the Supreme
Court's decision to legalize gay marriage, which brought issues of
employment to the forefront at certain Evangelical institutions.
Yet despite mounting challenges, most Christian colleges and
universities are still stronger now than at any point in their
respective histories by almost any measure.With The Anxious Middle,
Todd C. Ream and Jerry Pattengale engage the work of Dietrich
Bonhoeffer as a model for navigating our tumultuous times. The
authors argue that if the present age is defined by what Bonhoeffer
calls in Creation and Fall the "anxious middle"—somewhere between
Eden and the Apocalypse—the challenges faced by Christian higher
education must be recognized as both existential and practical. To
confront them while still embracing any opportunities afforded by
occasional cross breezes, Christian colleges and universities would
be wise to employ a fourfold approach to planning informed by
Bonhoeffer's work as well as historic and contemporary
examples:Â institutions should be articulate about their
missions, imaginative in advancing them, collaborative in deploying
them, and strategic in sharing them. Trustees,
administrators, faculty members, and others concerned with the
future of Christian colleges and universities will find in The
Anxious Middle a planning process applicable to organizational
levels ranging from the campus-wide to the departmental or the
programmatic. The result is an understanding of Christian higher
education not merely focused on surviving but thriving between Eden
and the Apocalypse.
Many colleges and universities informally highlight the value of
mentoring among academic professionals. Yet scholars often lack
clear definitions, goals, practices, and commitments that help them
actually reap the benefits mentoring offers. As new faculty members
from younger generations continue to face evolving challenges while
also reshaping institutions, their ability to connect with more
experienced mentors is critical to their vocations—and to the
future of higher education. In Cultivating Mentors, a distinguished
group of contributors explores the practice of mentoring in
Christian higher education. Drawing on traditional theological
understandings of the mentee-mentor relationship, they consider
what goals should define such relationships and what practices make
their cultivation possible among educators. With special attention
to generational dynamics, they discuss how mentoring can help
institutions navigate generational faculty transitions and
cultivate rising leaders. Contributors include: David Kinnaman Tim
Clydesdale Margaret Diddams Edgardo Colón-Emeric Rebecca C. Hong
Tim Elmore Beck A. Taylor Stacy A. Hammons This book offers
valuable insights and practical recommendations for faculty
members, administrators, and policy makers. Whether pursuing their
vocation in Christian or secular institutions, Christian scholars
will benefit from the sharing of wisdom mapped out
in Cultivating Mentors.
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