Title
Intentional Change and the Maintenance of Mission: The Impact of Adult Education Programs on School Mission at Two Evangelical Colleges
School/Department
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Publication Date
6-2002
Abstract
This paper is a comparative study of two evangelical colleges that have recently established non-traditional adult degree completion programs, and the effect these have on the traditional mission of these schools. As each school has reshaped its mission to take into account these new programs, the potential exists to impact the traditional mission of these schools, in particular for secularizing their historic religious mission. In contrast to approaches that assume the secularization of evangelical higher education as they develop their educational programs, I argue that as these schools negotiate both the educational environment and their particular religious environments, their continued reliance on their constituencies for their legitimacy as educational institutions restricts the range of development within each school and acts as a deterrent to secularizing pressures, thus allowing the school to maintain a connection to their institutional history and identity.
Keywords
Adult education; College degree;
Publication Title
Review of Religious Research
Volume
43
Issue
4
First Page
349
Last Page
368
DOI of Published Version
10.2307/3512003
Recommended Citation
Flory, Richard W., "Intentional Change and the Maintenance of Mission: The Impact of Adult Education Programs on School Mission at Two Evangelical Colleges" (2002). Faculty Articles & Research. 639.
https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/faculty-articles/639