Oiver Wendell Holmes once called the city of Boston: “The thinking center of the continent, and therefore of the planet.” Boston’s title “the hub of the universe” has been applied many times. When you look at the area’s colleges and…
Read moreIt’s Happening All Over the World! Bolivia News of a revival of Christianity among students in Bolivia was the most encouraging report circulated at a meeting of the World Assembly of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) held July…
Read moreWhen The Forerunner began in 1981, God directed a few individuals to start a publication which would reach the young people of this generation with the message of the gospel. The method was calculated: to boldly penetrate the minds and…
Read moreTom Wolfe, Megatrends authors John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, and Harvard Professor Peter Gomes are just a few of the experts predicting a trend toward faith and religion on the university campuses of America. This new tack, which students have…
Read moreIn this new decade of the 1990s, there is a group of individuals who are emerging on the university campuses of America. Some have called them the “neo-modernists.” They are totally different than any of the generations which have preceded…
Read moreThe academic institutions of the Northeast, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and several others, are “lynchpins” in the American university system. Philosophies which are born and bred in the classrooms of these schools are later transferred to every other univeristy in…
Read moreRanking America’s Leading Grad Schools According to a recent U.S. News and World Report feature, “America’s Best Graduate and Professional Schools,” (March 19, 1990), professional education in the United States is booming. Enrollment among women and minorities i…
Read moreBoston University president, John Silber, in a recently published book, Straight Shooting (Harper & Row), gives a detailed criticism of the American educational system and offers an ideology of reform from the viewpoint of his many years of experience. President…
Read moreCHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (FR) – Students at the University of Virginia celebrated the 100th anniversary of the construction of the school’s chapel by staging an impressive march on campus. Over 80 people carrying flags and banners walked through the U.Va. grounds…
Read moreGAINESVILLE, FL (FR) – Campus officials across the nation are discovering that there is a “moral vacuum” in the classroom and are attempting to rectify the problem by developing new ethics and moral values codes. Student behavior problems such as…
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