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The Christian College Phenomenon explores the explosive growth over the last twenty years of institutions affiliated with the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). While public institutions of higher learning in the United States experienced a 3% growth in enrollment from 1990-1996, CCCU institutions witnessed a 36.9% growth during that same period. And in 2006, enrollment over the previous year at public universities grew by 13% and at other private colleges by 28%, but enrollment at CCCU institutions rose by 70.6%.

Editors Thomas Chesnes and Samuel Joeckel have taken an empirical approach, surveying over 1900 professors at ninety-five CCCU colleges and universities and 2300 students at twenty different schools. The editors compiled responses to quantitative and open-ended questions on topics from pedagogy and politics to faith learning integration; they then made that data available to nearly thirty scholars who have turned their considered responses into chapters that are now organized into seven book sections, covering topics in gender, evolution, faith, learning, scholarship, and race/ethnicity:

• TARGET AUDIENCE: The Christian College Phenomenon goes out to all those who study trends in American universities. Scholars and analysts, regardless of their faith commitments, will be interested to see what's happening in the CCCU schools that have experienced tremendous enrollment growth, particularly in comparison to their counterparts. What are these schools doing differently that can give all universities a new perspective on movements in contemporary education? This book offers a window into possibilities (From the Publisher)

Table Of Content:
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part One: Faith, Learning and Scholarly Rigor
ch. 1 A Slippery Slope to Secularization? The Worthwhile Risk of Christian Higher Education
ch. 2 Christian Scholarship: Opportunities, Realities, and Challenges
ch. 3 A Coda on Faith, Learning, and Scholarly Rigor
Part One Bibliography

Part Two: Faith and Campus Culture
ch. 4 Thick Ecumenism: The Possibility of Enlarging Our Circles at Christian Colleges and Universities
ch. 5 Faith and Campus Culture: Are Faculty and Students on the Same Page?
ch. 6 Faith and Campus Culture: Living and Learning in the Questions
Part Two Bibliography

Part Three: Assessing the In-Loco-Parentis Model
ch. 7 In Loco Parentis: Strengths, Weakness, and Future Directions
ch. 8 In Loco Parentis: An Evolving Concept
ch. 9 In Loco Parentis from a Student and Faculty Perspective
Part Three Bibliography

Part Four: Academic Freedom
ch. 10 The Hesitants among Us: The Tightrope Act of Christian Scholarship
ch. 11 Fear Not: Security, Risk, and Academic Freedom
ch. 12 What Is Freedom For? Rhetoric and Reality at Christian Colleges
Part Four Bibliography

Part Five: Racial/Ethnic Diversity
ch. 13 Race and Ethnicity in CCCU Schools: Rhetoric and Reality
ch. 14 Understanding CCCU Faculty of Color
ch. 15 Biblical Multiculturalism: Moving Forward in Deed and Truth
Part Five Bibliography

Part Six: Gender Equality
ch. 16 Finding a Home in Academia: Gender Equity at CCCU Institutions
ch. 17 Are We Doomed? Why Christian Colleges and Universities Must Lead on the Issue of Gender Equity and Why They Don't
ch. 18 Holding on to the Traditions of Men: Christianity, Gender, and the Academy
Part Six Bibliography

Part Seven: Evolution and the Science Classroom
ch. 19 Deconstructing the Second Pillar of Antievolutionism and Christian Higher Education
ch. 20 Inherited Beliefs and Evolved Brains: A CCCU Challenge
ch. 21 Evolution and Christian Faith
Part Seven Bibliography

Conclusion
ch. 22 Moving Up the Slippery Slope
ch. 23 The Secular Challenges and Resources for Addressing Them

Appendix
Faculty Survey Aggregate Data
Student Survey Aggregate Data
Contributors