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Accreditation on the Edge: An Overview
No full textBook review, Phillips, S., & Kinser, K. (Eds.). (2018). Accreditation on the edge: Challenging quality assurance in higher education. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Instilling Christian Principles of Business Success in the Classroom
No full textThis paper illustrates how seven Christian principles create success: the admission of fallibility and forgiveness, individual responsibility to others and to the community, respect for all individuals, respect for private property, the emphasis on ethical principles over legalism, honesty, and leadership accountability. This paper shows that these principles contributed to the prosperity of the United States economy and businesses and suggests how these principles can be incorporated into business school classrooms
Character Formation in Online Education Book Review and Reflection
No full textIn recent years, higher education has experienced a trend toward online learning. This atmosphere presents a challenge to instructors who want to keep the rigor of a traditional classroom while navigating the demands of an online landscape and facilitating connections with students. In Character Formation in Online Learning, Jung (2015) attempts to illustrate methods in which character can be formed in an online environment that meets or surpasses the depth of a traditional classroom experience
Intentional Integration of Faith in Accounting Matters
No full textFaith integration is an important strategy in business courses, both as a calling and as a matter of survival. This article develops a study that assesses the efficacy of integrating faith into an accounting course to improve future ethical actions. The results provide empirical support that students were positively impacted by intentional faith integration using Micah 6:8 to understand how the Bible may be used to inform one confronted with an accounting ethical dilemma
Bridging General Education and the Business Discipline: Surfacing Central Themes through a Core Course
Full text linkGeneral education and business major courses often follow parallel paths with little intersection or appreciation of the other. Students benefit, however, by seeing key themes and skills linked to both general education and specialized disciplinary courses. Giving specific attention to Christian institutions, this paper argues for more intentional connections between these two parts of the curriculum, highlighting their common ideals of shared learning, shared connections as human beings, practical skills, institutional distinctiveness, and integration. One strategy to overcome the bifurcation of general education and business curricula has been to ground institutional distinctives within a core course experience, which can then be called to mind in subsequent courses. A core course for first-year students is especially effective for Christian institutions due to the significance of the themes typically introduced in such a course. Although educators have called for building connections between general education and specialized disciplines, very little scholarship has addressed business disciplines specifically or provided models of successful implementation. The present article provides a detailed example of how one Christian institution’s core course can engage and benefit students by highlighting connections to organizational and career themes. The article then demonstrates concrete ways important core course themes can be intentionally reinforced within the business curriculum. General suggestions for implementation are also provided
Just Business Book Review and Reflection
Full text link In the field of marketing and business in general, many ideas of what it means to exemplify acceptable ethical behavior inform practice. In his book Just Business, Alexander Hill (2008) describes the three elements of the Christian faith (holiness, justice, and love) and relates them to business ethics in the secular world. Is it plausible and acceptable to combine Christian morality and business ethics, or should the two entities exist and function separately? Should there be a “dual morality” or should one’s Christian faith override or replace business ethics? Is the answer situationally driven? How are ethical decisions made when the law and one’s personal faith are in conflict? Should the positivism approach be selected, which says that the law is always right, regardless of whether or not personal conviction opposes it? Narrowing these ethical issues down to the field of marketing, how might the practice of deceptive advertising be viewed in light of these considerations
Research Opportunities Featuring Christian Businesses: Case Teaching Notes, Tackling the Hard Part First
Full text linkWhen conducting research, the author often has a preconceived idea on what is the likely outcome. With basic research, there is generally a stated hypothesis, and the research sets out to either prove or disprove this hypothesis. With applied research, data collection is often used, and there is some expectation on what the results will be. In case studies, a less familiar research area, results can be entirely different than expected for a variety of reasons, some of which could be totally unforeseen by the author. This increased uncertainty can make the research process more enticing or have a severe detrimental impact on the study to the point of curtailing the case study altogether
Faculty Mid-Career Crisis and Remedies
Full text linkMost Christian faculty members start their careers full of excitement and thanks since they know God called them to participate in God’s work through research and teaching to restore the world. However, as time passes, many of them experience their callings get dimmer. If faculty suffer a midlife career crisis, their ability to help their students to be future Christian leaders for God’s Kingdom may be negatively impacted. This paper introduces a faculty crisis self-checklist that contains 10 symptoms and provides remedies to overcome the crisis
The Tyranny of Metrics: An Overview
Full text linkMuller, J. (2018). The tyranny of metrics. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-174952, 240 pp, https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11218.htm
Grace vs. Grit: Reaching, Teaching and Preparing Today’s Christian Learner
No full textThe higher education landscape has changed dramatically over the past 30 years with the number of students enrolled in colleges and universities doubling from 10 to 20 million during this time (Holzer & Baum, 2017). In addition to the change in the student population, there has been a major change in the method of instruction in higher education. Today, one of four students take some or all their courses online (National Center for Education Statistics, 2018). Professors and administrators need to become familiar with how to best aid students and how to best balance providing grace to students while also challenging them to achieve their best and holding them accountable