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The Antifragile Christian College: Turning Disruption into Advantage
What if the future of Christian higher education depends on the choices we make right now?
Christian higher education is approaching a pivotal moment. This paper gives faculty and leaders a grounded assessment of the cultural, political, and structural pressures undermining trust in higher education and shows how these trends are reshaping the academic enterprise. It outlines two distinct pathways forward: remaining tied to legacy systems or pursuing a more independent and antifragile future that protects mission, credibility, and academic excellence.
The Center for Academic Faithfulness and Flourishing has teamed up with Logos for Education to bring you this insightful position paper by Nate Fischer, Chief Executive Officer of New Founding.
Executive Summary
In recent years, American economic and social life has undergone widespread disruption and witnessed a corresponding loss of trust in institutions. In particular, three trends in the macro environment—global disruption, bureaucratic stagnation, and cultural and political alienation—threaten to upend the systems and structures upon which American higher education currently depends. This position paper reviews these trends and explains how together they are likely to produce both elevated levels of concentrated risk for universities and decreased trust in postsecondary credentialers. It concludes by exploring the implications of this foreboding reality and elucidating two divergent futures for Christian higher education: submitting to the legacy academic status hierarchy and accepting a suboptimal position, or gaining independence from these negative trends by forking away from the existing system and cultivating institutional antifragility.
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