In her trilogy The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins, an established writer for children’s television and successful novelist of teen fiction, has portrayed what everyone seems to want to describe as a “dystopian” universe. The United States (North America?) has been rebuilt after the apocalypse as “Panem”, certainly a reference to the use of the latin …read more

Through an analysis of polls of both College Presidents and the general public this article demonstrates the great transition university and college education in America is currently experiencing. Karin Fischer, a senior reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, based her investigation on simultaneous polls of 1,000 college and university presidents and of 2,182 Americans, …read more

The Consortium of Christian Study Centers sponsored two symposia in the last month, and both seemed to have accomplished what the Consortium hoped they would: informed, rigorous discussion combined with fruitful conversation about study centers and their role in the university environment. Friendships were forged and strengthened among both study center and partner organization personnel. …read more

In this year’s presentations of my annual lecture on the Academy Award nominees for best picture entitled “The Movies and America: What the Academy Award Nominees for Best Picture Tell Us About Ourselves”, the most interesting responses have come from those who question what I say about The Descendants, the George Clooney vehicle for which …read more