CHRISTIAN COLLEGES AND YOUR STUDENT

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1 K E E P I N G T H E FA I T H : Palmer Muntz Director of Admissions Multnomah University Portland, OR Mark Cruver Independent Educational Consultant Capstone Educational Consultants Greater Atlanta, GA CHRISTIAN COLLEGES AND YOUR STUDENT

2 Is This A Christian College? Religiously Affiliated Bible College Christian Liberal Arts

3 Is This A Christian College? 4,000 degree-granting institutions of higher education in the United States 1,600 private, non-profit campuses 900 are historically or self-defined as religiously affiliated About 200 are evangelical Christian liberal arts colleges or Bible colleges

4 Is This A Christian College? Characteristics of a Christian College Committed Christian Faculty Development of the Whole Person Intellectual Challenge Faith Development Character Development Sets a Biblical and Moral Foundation for Life

5 What is Christian Higher Education? A HIGHER GROUNDING By Julia Duin, excerpted from The Washington Times, SAN DIEGO A procession of good-looking, suntanned young men in wet suits, surfboards in hand, heads to and from the beach all day long. They've got names like Jeremiah and Ben, and most are on the surfing team of Point Loma Nazarene University. Their home base is the beige dorm perched on a cliff on the western edge of the oceanside campus. Call them surfers for Jesus.... Today, Christian colleges are outfitted with gleaming glass buildings, modern science departments and, often, a more worldly joie de vivre. The surfers of Point Loma embody a secret in U.S. college admissions: the growth industry in evangelical Protestant and conservative Catholic schools.

6 What is Christian Higher Education? A HIGHER GROUNDING (continued) If people are going to spend money sending their kids to a college, they want one with a mission, says Shirley Mullen, provost at Westmont College, a high-end evangelical school in Santa Barbara, Calif. Education is not value-free, she says. "Parents are a lot more involved in where their kids go to college these days. They want something wholesome, with role models. And tradition-oriented Christian colleges and universities are quietly booming.... Many of America's estimated 50 million evangelical Christians find secular schools fail to nurture a purpose-driven existence in their children.

7 What is Christian Higher Education? One Commitment in Common:! A shared dedication to the integration of Faith, Learning and Living

8 Christian College Myths Not Prestigious Too Strict Closed-Minded Right-Wing Not Highly Ranked Non-Competitive Athletics Too Easy Unaffordable Only in the Bible-Belt Little or No Financial Aid

9 Truth is... there is a wide range of admissions selectivity those with open admission and others with far more selective criteria. there are Christian colleges and universities located nationwide. there are very conservative campuses and those that are liberal in their approach to campus rules and regulations. the cost to attend a Christian college varies in the same way as any other categorical option of higher education. the money is there, with sometimes very generous financial aid packages.

10 Let s meet some of those having experienced a Christian college or university.! Where are they now?

11 Incredible People DeMaurice De Smith Cedarville University - 85 Cedarville, OH Executive Director of the NFL Players Association

12 Incredible People Judith Hill Biola University - 07 La Mirada, CA In 2009, was Michael Jackson s duet partner for the This Is It concerts. Performed at Jacson s memorial service, singing the lead on the song Heal the World. Was on The Voice, in 2013, making it to the final eight. Has a record deal with Sony and tours with Josh Groban.

13 Incredible People Megan Hitz Seattle Pacific University - 04 Seattle, WA Ralph Lauren - NYC Within two years, Megan was promoted to associate children s wear designer.

14 Incredible People Lt. Col. Todd DeGroot LeTourneau University - 86 Longview, TX Special air mission pilot with the U.S. Air Force, piloting Air Force Two, the modified Boeing 757 use by the Vice President of the United States.

15 Incredible People Thomas Hong Cairn University - 95 Langhorne, PA Teaches at Rice University s Shepherd School of Music, is the associate conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and is the music director for the Mansfield (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra. Previously conducted the Pittsburgh, Seattle and Fort Worth Symphonies, as well as the Orchestre National de France.

16 Incredible People Arthur Ammann Wheaton College - 58 Wheaton, IL Discovered the first case of AIDS contracted through a blood transfusion and the first case of pediatric AIDS. Founded Global Strategies, raised more than $22 million toward HIV prevention, and provided over 85,000 women with HIV drugs or testing kits.

17 Incredible People Klon Kitchen Bryan College - 99 Dayton, TN Served as the National Defense University s Counterterrorism Chair and advised both Bush and Obama Administrations as intelligence strategy expert.

18 Incredible People Kathy Nimmer Trinity Christian College - 91 Palos Heights, IL First blind schoolteacher teaching in a regular high school classroom to earn national board certification, the highest rank teachers can achieve. Won the Golden Apple, the Butler-Cooley Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Eli Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellowship.

19 Incredible People Palmer Muntz Corban College - 83 Salem, OR Served in higher education admissions, financial aid, enrollment management and residence life at 8 universities since Currently serves as Director of Admissions at Multnomah University in Portland. Former president of PNACAC.

20 Incredible People Mark Cruver Bryan College - 92 Dayton, TN Currently serving as an Independent Educational Consultant in the suburbs of Atlanta after more than two decades in youth ministry, college admissions and enrollment management, and corporate human resource management.

21 The Christian College Fit Get to Know your Family Recognize the Possible Signs Church Attendance? Mission Trips? Fellowship of Christian Athletes? Young Life? See You At The Pole Attendance? Homeschooled? Are there any resources?!

22 Know Thy Accreditation Agency Regional Accreditation Commissions

23 Other Accreditations The Association for Biblical Higher Education Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools

24 Know Thy Memberships National Christian College Athletic Association

25 Your Blueprint

26 The Guide

27 Questions? Palmer Muntz Director of Admissions Multnomah University Portland, OR Mark Cruver Independent Educational Consultant Capstone Educational Consultants Greater Atlanta, GA