ERIC Number: EJ1389482
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 27
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-4087
EISSN: EISSN-1547-3201
Getting Rid of "Church-Related" Colleges and Universities: Applying a New Operationalizing Faith Identity Guide to Protestant Higher Education
Glanzer, Perry L.; Cockle, Theodore F.; Martin, Jessica; Alexander, Scott
Religious Education, v118 n2 p146-172 2023
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.
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Colleges, Protestants, Identification, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Role, Institutional Mission, Beliefs
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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