Faculty Catalysts

How can you engage with faculty advisors on campus? How might a faculty advisor interact with InterVarsity students and staff? Art Wollum, faculty emeritus from North Carolina State University speaks on his suggestions after four decades of experience and a lifetime of love for students, faculty, InterVarsity and the university.

When GFM Boston became its own area, we engaged in a strategic planning process to discern the potential for graduate student, international, and faculty ministry. As Area Director, I had the least amount of faith for faculty ministry. My experience with faculty over the years had not been promising. It all felt impossible then. But now, I have hope.

Faithful faculty can and must have a powerfully redemptive influence on colleges and universities, and it is in this work that I want to set out four dreams I have for academia.

Sometimes faculty need a hand in breaking the ice with their coworkers.

You will love the two new resources from Faculty Ministry and ESN this fall. Please share these with faculty on your campus.

Discussion questions for George M. Marsden's, "The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), introduction and chapters 3-6. You may find the quotations that follow most questions to be relevant, but they are no substitute for following Marsden's argument in full.

This Bible study for faculty was originally presented at the Collegium on Christ, Knowledge and Wisdom at Union University.

At the Spring 2007 Vanderbilt Faculty Dinner, this “scavenger hunt” was used to break the ice between Christian faculty meeting for the first time.