"Is it everything we promised it would be?"
"As the accountability pressures on higher education grow, and words like 'measurable outcomes' become common parlance in academe, religious colleges are increasingly embracing a need to measure the spiritual and moral outcomes they promise in their mission statements to deliver. They're seeking ways not only to measure their own students' spiritual commitments -- and how those commitments might change from freshman to senior year -- but also how they as institutions stack up, spiritually speaking, relative to peer colleges."
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These folks want to QUANTIFY their religious indoctrination efforts? Good luck on that!
Posted on February 1, 2007 11:41 AM
You can qualtify my religious indoctrination - it is an absolute zero. In the very early 1960s I attended a small Methodist college where Wednesday nite chapel was mandatory and the only way to eat a Sunday meal in the school's dining hall was to obtain a meal ticket during Sunday morning services held in the on-campus church. Incidently, this Sunday meal was, far and away, the best school meal of the week. I was 18 then and I'm 63 now and I haven't been to a regularily scheduled church service in all the ensuing years - I have, however, eaten bunches of Sunday afternoon fried chicken and relished each and every minute not spent in church.
Posted on February 1, 2007 5:48 PM