Getting Rid of “Church-Related” Colleges and Universities: Applying a New Operationalizing Faith Identity Guide to Protestant Higher Education

Faith-based colleges and universities in America have historically been described as “church-related.” Unfortunately, this classification is too one-dimensional, revealing virtually nothing about how faith-based identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of institutions. Alth...

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Published in:Religious education
Authors: Glanzer, Perry L. (Author) ; Cockle, Theodore F. (Author) ; Martin, Jessica (Author) ; Alexander, Scott (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2023
In: Religious education
Further subjects:B Institutional identity
B Christian Higher Education
B faith-based higher education
B church-related higher education
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Summary:Faith-based colleges and universities in America have historically been described as “church-related.” Unfortunately, this classification is too one-dimensional, revealing virtually nothing about how faith-based identity influences the mission, rhetoric, curriculum, or policies of institutions. Although scholars have advanced sophisticated typologies of Protestant and Catholic institutions, we propose that we still need a new means of empirical analysis to determine the degree to which the faith identity of an institution influences important administrative, curricular, and co-curricular decisions. We then apply our Operationalizing Faith Identity Guide (OFIG) to Protestant institutions in the United States to demonstrate the helpfulness of its application.
ISSN:1547-3201
Contains:Enthalten in: Religious education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2023.2184962