Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education

Do university students change after taking a subject on leadership and intrapersonal development?

“…According to Crosby [5], helping students to become good human beings is an important goal of higher education. Unfortunately, Glanzer and Ream [10] observed that most universities had shifted away from this humanistic approach, which was a central focus of higher education in the past, and argued for the need to return to the comprehensive development of students (i.e., intellectual, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and moral).…”

A Christian college in a food truck? Christian study centers and moral formation

“…Given the impossibility of a morally neutral university and the challenges of finding a societal moral consensus, the most promising way forward for character formation in secular universities involves creating a “post-liberal” university (Glanzer and Ream, 2009: 92–94). Rather than continue the search for moral consensus, universities should instead pursue the rich exchange of a plurality of particular moral traditions within their intellectual and moral life.…”

Assessing the Denominational Identity of American Evangelical Colleges and Universities, Part II: Faculty Perspectives and Practices

“…Because we find the ordering of a person's identities to be one of the most fundamentally important aspects of personhood (see for exampleGlanzer & Ream, 2009), we believe future research in this area is warranted. In particular, it would be helpful to know how faculty understand their denominational identity in relationship to their other human (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, class, etc.)…”