Faith Integration
Deepening our culture of faith integration in the academic realm calls for an application of faith to our work based on unity in essentials, diversity, freedom in non-essentials, and in all things charity. Excellence in theologically informed reflection is paramount to an integration of faith within the context of academic disciplines, professional programs, and lived practice, in order to advance the understanding of Christian higher education and to develop moral leaders who will impact the world.
Faculty development opportunities aid the integration of the Christian faith into every Azusa Pacific University course, and the institution is infused with scholarship that integrates the faith and calling of our faculty, staff, administration, and students.
Vision in Action
Please let us know how you have found the Academic Vision 2016 exemplified by emailing provost@apu.edu.
Five-Year Goals
Recommendations:
A. Recognition and valuing of faith integration
- Recognize and fund faith integration, research, and scholarship.
B. Faculty and student scholarly development of faith integration
- Promote funding of faith integration and theological research courses for full-time faculty.
- Assess faculty ability to articulate how their faith informs their discipline or profession.
C. Funding
- Fund interdisciplinary teaching, seminars, colloquia, conferences, lecture series, and workshops.
- Develop faith integration resources for adjunct faculty and incentivize participation of adjunct faculty through limited reimbursement or honoraria.
D. Infrastructure and evaluation
- Evaluate the faculty faith mentorship program for standards, expectations, accountability, and outcomes.
- Institutionalize a master’s program of education for faith integration.
- Develop the infrastructure, funding, and organizational by-laws for an Institute of Faith Integration.
For more information, contact Craig Boyd at caboyd@apu.edu.
Academic Vision 2016 Task Force: Faith Integration
Chairs: Les Eddington, C.Phil., assistant provost for academic services
Theresa Tisdale, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology
Mark Arvidson, Ph.D., professor of mathematics
George Babbes, Ph.D., professor of business
and management
David Colachico, Ed.D., director of faculty development
Brian Eck, Ph.D., chair, Department of Psychology
Marsha Fowler, Ph.D., professor of
nursing and graduate theology
Sam Sambasivam, Ph.D., chair, Department of Computer Science
Phil Shackleton, DMA, associate professor
of music
Roger White, Ed.D., professor of graduate
theology
Aja Tulleners-Lesh, Ph.D., dean, School of Nursing, facilitator
