Immigration: How Do We Get Out Of This Morass?

by Ralph Enlow | Feb 4, 2018 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives | 0 comments

Thus far in my admittedly cursory commentary on immigration, I have made the following assertions: law and justice are not always equivalent much of our existing legal framework relative to immigration is unjust our current immigration morass is due less to...

Immigration: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?

by Ralph Enlow | Jan 21, 2018 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives | 0 comments

Speaking of immigration In my last post, I asserted two things: law and justice are not always equivalent much of our existing legal framework relative to immigration is unjust     Call it what it is Whatever else you want to say about the massive reality of...

Wading Into the Immigration Swamp

by Ralph Enlow | Jan 6, 2018 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives | 0 comments

Three reasons to wade in   I feel compelled to devote some personal commentary via this forum to the topic of immigration. I think it appropriate from three perspectives: Institutions of higher education have a large stake in national policy regarding immigration...

Credentials ≠ competence

by Ralph Enlow | Oct 23, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives | 0 comments

Criterion number three Thus far in considering the mission-critical matter of faculty selection, I have proposed two important criteria: credentials (first in sequence but least in importance), and contagious character. A third criterion is competence. You may be...

Memorize Luke 6:40

by Ralph Enlow | Oct 16, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives | 0 comments

A price too high to pay I have been insisting in recent posts that faculty are among your most mission-critical institutional assets. Well-funded and well-led colleges will be diminished and degraded in mission effectiveness when they permit erosion in faculty...

Faculty Credentials: A Place to Start, But Not the End

by Ralph Enlow | Oct 2, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives | 0 comments

Wait, I thought you said … In launching this blog post series, I boldly asserted that an educational institution’s missional success ultimately depends, not on its executive leadership, but on its faculty. I also cautioned that academic credentials alone should...