This book offers examples from both Christian and secular democratic institutions of higher education and then responds to possible criticisms about how moral education in a comprehensive humanist moral tradition may short change diversity, autonomy and critical thinking.

About the Contributor(s): Todd C. Ream (PhD, The Pennsylvania State University) is Professor of Higher Education at Taylor University and a research fellow with Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. Perry L. Glanzer (PhD, University of Southern California) is Professor of Educational Foundations and a faculty fellow with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University. Together, they serve as the book review editors for Christian Scholar's Review and are the authors of Christian Faith and Scholarship: An Exploration of Contemporary Developments and Christianity and...

Shifting faculty roles in a changing landscape

Ernest L. Boyer's landmark book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate challenged the publish-or-perish status quo that dominated the academic landscape for generations. His powerful and enduring argument for a new approach to faculty roles and rewards continues to play a significant part of the national conversation on scholarship in the academy.

Though steeped in tradition, the role of faculty in the academic world has shifted significantly in recent decades. The rise of the non-tenure-track class of...