by Ralph Enlow | May 8, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
We have embarked on a multi-post series concerning governance, grounded upon the assertion that, Organizations are built from the bottom up but they fall apart from the top down. Signs of a bumbling board If it is true that organizational failure and board...
by Ralph Enlow | May 1, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
The secret of your success My work with scores of Christian higher education institutions over the past four decades has led me to conclude that there is an inextricable, direct relationship between board functioning and institutional flourishing. Show me any measure...
by Ralph Enlow | Apr 24, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Edification |
What was Tolkien thinking? I wonder whether J.R.R. Tolkein was thinking of Psalm 45 when he wrote the climactic Return of the King passage describing the marriage of Aragorn and Arwen? He may as well have. In fact, Tolkein’s narrative elevates my emotional grasp of...
by Ralph Enlow | Apr 17, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Edification, Perspectives |
Turning the page without breaking the thought If you read the Bible one book at a time, it is easy to miss a most intriguing contrast between Genesis 48 and Exodus 1. Providentially planted in Egypt in order to preserve the people of promise, Joseph fathered two...
by Ralph Enlow | Apr 10, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Academics, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
All aboard? In my previous post, I attempted to summarize the arguments for and against the emerging Competency Based Education (CBE) phenomenon that is gaining momentum in North American higher education. How should we respond to this phenomenon? In my opinion, we...
by Ralph Enlow | Apr 3, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Academics, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
Choose your variable It has probably been more than two decades now since I heard these words from a speaker at an accreditation gathering: About the only thing a US high school diploma tells you is that a person has been institutionalized for 12 years. The speaker...
