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The American University in a Postsecular Age$
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Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9780195323443

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323443.001.0001

 The Ideals and Diversity of Church‐Related Higher Education

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(p. 63 ) 5 The Ideals and Diversity of Church‐Related Higher Education
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The American University in a Postsecular Age
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R. Eugene Rice

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195323443.003.0006

Based on the fact that a majority of college and university students want their professors to help them make meaning with their lives, Rice argues that faculty roles must be redefined to include more than merely disciplinary expertise. He suggests that the postmodern turn away from positivism makes this change both necessary and possible, and that it allows spirituality and religion to enter into the learning process. This new conception of learning calls for courage on the part of faculty because it is more self‐revelatory, and it also will require the development of clear professional boundaries that define what is and is not appropriate.

Keywords:   courage, faculty roles, faith, meaning, positivism, postmodern, professional boundaries, religion, spirituality

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