Better Together

Phil Bishop Exercise Science & Kinesiology University of Alabama [April 29, 2014] “Do what?  Rich, you know this isn’t the way I do foreign mission trips,” I replied to Faculty Commons Staff member and friend Rich McGee. I had made several international trips and...

Faculty Luncheons

Howie and Nance Kauffman, Faculty Commons, University of Florida [April 22, 2014]~ Recent Ministry Minutes have focused on various strategies for professors on university campuses to participate in collectively. The Veritas Forums, the Symposia, and Reason for God DVD...

A Sense of Sent – ness

  Jack and Diane Parker, Faculty Commons Staff, University of Alabama Birmingham [April 8, 2014]~~ One of the hardest things is saying ‘good-bye’ to dear friends and colleagues in academia.  When Dr. Richard Allman announced his new position with the...

Cherished, Celebrated: The Power of Community

Hope McIlwain, Department of Mathematics, Mercer University [April 1, 2014]~~ The overcast, dull gray sky matched my burdened spirit as I walked slowly to the gravesite. Four days earlier, my best friend and fellow college professor, called to say that her husband of...

To Be or Not To Be?

Charles Reilly, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida [March 25, 2014]~~ International students represent one of the best investments a university can make in creating a better...

Live it Out

W. Bryce Hagedorn, Program Director of Counselor Education, University of Central Florida [March 18, 2014]~~ One of the things that we may all find challenging as Christian faculty is discovering the believers in our orbit of relationships on campus.  For me, knowing...