2016: Emerging Scholars Network Blog Highlights

It was a great year for the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) blog, thanks to partnerships with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA campus ministers, campus grad fellowships, and individual emerging scholars. In our mission to support followers of Christ on the academic pathway, we love to work with readers, InterVarsity campus ministers, and with InterVarsity campus fellowships to find material that will be genuinely helpful for our readers. We especially love connecting individual emerging scholars in transition with the resources and conversations they need.

This year, some highlights included:

• More material for students considering graduate school or in transition between undergrad and grad school, like these pieces by Kateri Collins.
• A Daniel Bible study series written and field tested by Kathy Cooper, Staff Training & Leadership Director, InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministries.
• An ongoing faith/science series designed in collaboration with InterVarsity campus grad groups and funded by the the John Templeton Foundation through Fuller Seminary’s STEAM program.
• A graduate school survival kit compiling several of our most read posts on graduate school.
• A Vocational Snapshot series highlighting the experiences of Christ followers at different points in the academic life, from considering graduate school to continuing as an assistant professor.

Plans for 2017 include a series on writing as a spiritual discipline, more Scholar’s Compass devotional pieces, and a series on good communication with colleagues for faculty members.

We’d love to know what material you’d like to see on the blog. Whether you’re a campus minister, a student, a postdoc, or a faculty member, contact us with your ideas.

Image courtesy of tookapic at Pixabay.com. Posted with Graduate School Survival Kit.