Despite the widely differing perspectives held by those who work in higher education, there is one goal upon which all educators and educational leaders agree: students should leave college stronger than they came. Now more than ever, today’s students come to college with unique intellectual, emotional, relational, and spiritual challenges. They need more than appropriate curricula, programs, facilities, and resources. Educating college students well requires a concern for and commitment to a holistic vision of their care.

This volume examines the calling that Christian educators—in both curricular and cocurricular settings—share in relation to the students they serve. Join this unique blend of experienced practitioners and researchers, including Miroslav Volf, Sharon Daloz Parks, and John Foubert, in considering how we can best nurture our students toward health, wholeness, and purpose.

Timothy W. Herrmann is Professor and Graduate Director of the Master of Arts in Higher Education and Student Development program at Taylor University (Upland, Indiana). Tim has also served in a variety of other roles, including Dean of Assessment, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Associate Dean of Students. In addition to being a former President of the Association for Christians in Student Development, he is also cofounder and coeditor of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development. Tim’s publications include A Parent’s Guide to the Christian College: Supporting Your Child’s Mind and Spirit during the College Years (2011), Funding the Future (2012), and A Faith for the Generations: How Collegiate Experience Impacts Faith (2015).

Kirsten D. Riedel serves as a residence director at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Her research interests and work in higher education are focused on understanding connections among institutional culture, purposes, and priorities as well as challenging students to explore questions of meaning, purpose, and calling. She holds a BA from Whitworth University and an MA in higher education and student development from Taylor University. Kirsten was also an editor for the first volume of this monograph series, A Faith for the Generations: How Collegiate Experience Impacts Faith (2015).

Co-Editors

Emilie K. Hoffman 

Jessica L. Martin 

Kelly A. Yordy 

Hannah M. Pick 

John Foubert serves as the Dean of the College of Education at Union University. He previously served on the faculties of Oklahoma State University and the College of William and Mary, in addition to administrative posts at the University of Virginia, University of Maryland, and University of Richmond. Dr. Foubert also serves as the Highly Qualified Expert and Senior Advisor for the U.S. Army Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention program at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. His most recent book is How Pornography Harms: What Teens, Young Adults, Parents, and Pastors Need to Know (2016). He appears regularly in the media and speaks often at Christian colleges on the topics of sexual violence and pornography. 

Anita Fitzgerald Henck has served as Dean of the School of Education at Azusa Pacific University since 2011, after five years in APU faculty and chair roles. Previous areas of her service have included Vice President for Student Development and Retention at Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts, and Assistant to the Provost at American University in Washington, DC. Her areas of research and consulting include leading change in higher education, organizational culture, leadership transitions, and building effective teams. 

Tabatha L. Jones Jolivet is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, where she teaches doctoral-level higher education courses on critical issues, diversity and social justice, and the nature of research inquiry. Her research focuses on campus activism, faith and spirituality, inclusive and socially-just organizational change, and the prevention and reduction of sex and gender-based violence. A higher education leader, community organizer, teacher, minister, and speaker for twenty years, she previously held positions as Associate Vice President for Student Life, Title IX Coordinator, and Associate Dean of Student Affairs. She is working on a collaborative book project that explores the intersection of race, religion, and higher education. 

Karen A. Longman is the PhD Program Director and Professor of Doctoral Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University. She also serves as a senior fellow of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), where she worked for nineteen years as vice president for professional development and research. In 2016, Longman’s contributions to Christian higher education were recognized through her receiving the John R. Dellenback Global Leadership Award. Longman coedits Christian Higher Education: An International Journal of Research, Theory, and Practice and an eight-volume book series being sponsored by the International Leadership Association focused on women and leadership; she also coedited the first volume, titled Women and Leadership in Higher Education (2014). Most recently, she worked with a group of more than twenty chapter authors to publish Diversity Matters: Race, Ethnicity, and the Future of Christian Higher Education (2017). She holds a PhD in higher education from the University of Michigan. 

Larry Markle is the Director of Disability Services at Ball State University, where he oversees the university’s efforts to provide access for over a thousand students with disabilities. During Larry’s tenure as director, Ball State has been recognized as a “disability-friendly” institution—one of a select group of schools going above and beyond legal mandates. Larry is involved in several professional organizations, including the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD), and is a past president of Indiana AHEAD. He serves on the review board for the Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability and was also the project director for “Ensuring a Quality Education for Indiana’s Students with Disabilities,” a grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. 

Donald D. Opitz is the campus pastor and a Professor at Messiah College. He is an ordained minister in the PCUSA with a PhD in religion and culture from Boston University. Don’s work in ministry has been focused on college students, and his work in the classroom has ranged widely (theology, leadership studies, social theory, higher education) while exploring the connections between faith and learning and life. Along with Derek Melleby, Don wrote Learning for the Love of God: A Student Guide to Academic Faithfulness (Brazos, 2014). 

Sharon Daloz Parks is Principal of Leadership for the New Commons and a Senior Fellow at the Whidbey Institute in Clinton, Washington. She holds a BA from Whitworth University, MA from Princeton Theological Seminary, and doctorate from Harvard University, the Divinity School. Her publications include Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Emerging Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Faith (Tenth Anniversary Edition, Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2011); Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World (2005); and she coauthored Common Fire: Leading Lives of Commitment in a Complex World (1997). She currently teaches in the Executive Leadership Program in the Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University, and she speaks and consults nationally. 

Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He was educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, earning doctoral and postdoctoral degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Tübingen, Germany. He has written or edited more than twenty books and over ninety scholarly articles. His most significant books include Exclusion and Embrace (1996), winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and one of Christianity Today’s 100 most important religious books of the twentieth century; After Our Likeness (1998), in which he explores the Trinitarian nature of ecclesial community; Allah: A Christian Response (2011), on whether Muslims and Christians have a common God; and A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (2011). His most recent books, Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World and Public Faith in Action: How to Think Carefully, Engage Wisely, and Vote with Integrity (coauthored with Ryan McAnnally-Linz), were published in 2016. 

Roger D. Wessel is a Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He also serves as the Director of the Master of Arts program in Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education and on the doctoral faculty for the Doctor of Education program in Adult, Higher, and Community Education. Prior to serving in these roles he worked in enrollment, career, orientation, and evaluation positions with higher education. His graduate degrees are from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, with undergraduate degrees from Lee University and Tomlinson College. His research agenda includes research on persistence to graduation for students with disabilities, and he serves as the Executive Editor for the Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability. 

Acknowledgements 

Introduction  | Timothy W. Herrmann 

Chapter One | What Will Save the World?: Caring for the World We Cannot Save | Miroslav Volf 

Chapter Two | Mentorship as Care for Emerging Adulthood: A Conversation with Sharon Daloz Parks and Timothy W. Herrmann | Shaon Dalos Parks and Timothy W. Herrmann 

Chapter Three | Nel Nodding's Ethics of Care: Thoughts for Student Development Educators | Kelly A. Yordy 

Chapter Four | Teaching Students to Care for Themselves | Kirsten D. Riedel, Emilie K. Hoffman, Jessica L. Martin 

Chapter Five | A Call for Holistic Intellectual Care of University Students: An Essay for the Twenty-First Century Academy | Anita Fitzgerald Henck 

Chapter Six | Solidarity and Mutuality as an Ethic of Care with Students of Color | Tabatha L. Jones Jolivet and Karen A. Longman 

Chapter Seven | Call(s) and Care(s) in Collegiate Ministry | Donald D. Opitz 

Chapter Eight | Caring Enough to Mentor College Students with Disabilities | Roger D. Wessel and Larry Markle 

Chapter Nine | Christ-Centered Approaches to Address Sexual Violence and Pornography | John D. Foubert 

Chapter Ten | Higher Education as an Exemplar of Care: Creating a Campus Culture of Care | Timothy W. Herrmann 

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ISBN: 9781684261604

Pages: 224

Dimensions (inches): 6x9

Weight (pounds): 0.6