Student Affairs Reconsidered: A Christian View of the Profession and its Contexts (Calvin Center Series)

This book asks Christian educators-particularly those involved in the student affairs profession-to become more engaged with the idea that the programs offered, classes taught, disciplinary actions dispensed, policies framed, and the like, are the arenas in which Christianity must take shape. The book also challenges educators at non-sectarian institutions to entertain the notion that a Christian view of higher learning in general and the student affairs profession in particular may not only be a plausible alternative but a helpful paradigm as well.Contents: A Framework of Understanding, D. Terry Thomas and David S. Guthrie; Student Affairs in Historical Perspective, Barry J. Loy and William M. Painter; Student Learning and Student Affairs, David S. Guthrie; Christian Higher Education and Christian Student Affairs, David S. Guthrie; Theorizing in Student Affairs from a Christian Perspective, Jeanette Bult De Jong; Model Programs in Student Affairs, Jay H. Barnes and Kate Harrington; Reframing Student Affairs and Higher Learning, Kate Harrington.

David S. Guthrie is Dean of Student Development, Student Life Division and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.