Office of the Provost

• Transformational Scholarship
• Faith Integration
• God-honoring Diversity
• Intentional Internationalization

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.

Current Five-Year Goals (PDF)

Recommendations:

A. Recognition and valuing of faith integration

1. Recognize and fund faith integration, research, and scholarship.
2. Develop a subcategory within the Accomplished/Emerging Scholar Awards that recognizes and funds faith integration, research, and scholarship.
• Goal reassessed and determined that the Accomplished/Emerging Scholar Awards are truly for work on discipline specific issues and though faith integration research may be supported, it is not a separate focus of these awards. Faith integration research on campus is ongoing.
  • FI research (PDF)

B. Faculty and student scholarly development of faith integration

1. Promote funding of faith integration and theological research courses for full-time faculty.
2. Assess faculty ability to articulate how their faith informs their discipline or profession.
3. Promote development activities to include continued funding of faith integration and theological research courses for full time faculty.
• The Office of Faith Integration (and with the Office of Christian Leadership and Vocation) has offered numerous courses, workshops, and seminars for faculty at the University.
• In 2009, the Faith Integration Council was established by the Faculty Senate to address issues of faith integration support, funding, and oversight of various faith integration activities
• Faith Integration Council 2012-13 (PDF)
• Faith Integration graduate courses for faculty
  • FI GR course email (PDF)
  • GRAD 501 Faith Integration and Curriculum Development
    • GRAD 501 syllabus (PDF)
  • GRAD 521 Theological Research for Academic Disciplines
    • GRAD 521 syllabus (PDF)
• Faculty feedback on faith integration courses indicates the relative merit of each of the courses and how faculty have modified courses to include faith integration components
  • FI course survey results (PDF)
  • FI course survey executive summary (PDF)
• The office sponsors a year-long new faculty seminar that guides faculty through basic elements of faith integration and Christian higher education. Narrated PowerPoint presentations are also available for faculty who are unable to attend the office sessions.
• The university sponsors an annual Common Day of Learning that addresses issues of faith integration for both faculty and students engaging both the scholarship of integration and the scholarship of teaching:
  • CDL 2012 (PDF)
  • CDL 2011 (PDF)
  • CDL 2010 (PDF)
  • CDL 2009 (PDF)
  • CDL 2008 (PDF)
  • CDL 2007 (PDF)
  • CDL 2006 (PDF)
• The Service Learning Program also includes faith integration as a component of student reflection on their experiences, as well as faculty research on service learning.
• The office has funded the first ever “reader” on faith integration (published by Baylor University Press, 2011) titled Christian Faith and Secular Wisdom, eds. Craig A. Boyd and Randy Fall.
• Faculty Spiritual Care Retreat
  • Faculty Spiritual Care Retreat email (PDF)
• Spiritual Mentoring Initiative
  • Spiritual mentoring email (PDF)
  • Spiritual mentoring initiative FAQ (PDF)
  • Faculty and staff spiritual mentoring opportunities (PDF)
  • Staff spiritual mentoring policies and procedures (PDF)
  • Faculty spiritual mentoring policies and procedures (PDF)
• SoulQuest chaplains provide spiritual care opportunities for students.
  • SoulQuest chaplains (PDF)
• The Conference on Faith & History (2009)
  • Conference on Faith & History (PDF)
4. Assess ability to articulate how their faith informs and critiques the content or exercise of their discipline or profession.
   • The Office of Faculty Evaluation has collected data on CFEP requirements for faith integration including the structured role questions, annotated bibliography, and faith integration essay.  The data indicates how many faculty of each were deemed proficient out of the total who had applied for extended contract and rank promotion.
     • Faith integration data on CFEP (PDF)
   • The Office of Faculty Evaluation has provided data from IDEA scores (student evaluation of faculty and courses,) and has demonstrated that the faith integration components has increased significantly across all disciplines since 2004
     • Faith integration IDEA ratings by discipline 2004–07 (PDF)
   • The Office of Faith Integration keeps a database of faculty faith integration research
     • FI research (PDF)

C. Funding

1. Fund interdisciplinary teaching, seminars, colloquia, conferences, lecture series, and workshops to foster and/or facilitate collaborative interdisciplinary and potentially intercollegiate teaching, scholarship, and research.
   • The Office of Faith Integration sponsors and collaborates with other offices on campus to promote professional development opportunities including lecture series developed by the Center for Research in Science, the Center for Ethics and Values, and the Office of Faith Integration
     • The Annual Faith Integration New Faculty Foundations Seminar is a program developed for faculty that consists of meetings and discussion with assigned readings on faith integration
       • Readings for New Faculty Seminar (PDF)
     • 2008–09 Faith Integration Lecture Series (PDF)
     • 2007–08 Faith Integration Lecture Series (PDF)
     • C.S. Lewis Symposium 2008 (PDF)
     • C.S. Lewis Conference 2006 (PDF)
     • Evangelical Voices on Faith and Science Conference 2007
     • Voices on Psychology and Theology Conference 2010
       • Voices email (PDF)
     • CRIS lectures
       • CRIS lectures 2011-12 (PDF)
       • CRIS lectures 2010-11 (PDF)
       • CRIS lectures 2009–10 (PDF)
       • CRIS lectures 2008–09 (PDF)
       • CRIS lectures 2007–08 (PDF)
       • CRIS lectures 2006–07 (PDF)
     • Center for Research in Ethics and Values provides a variety of faith integration opportunities, including:
       • The Beverly H. Stanford Faculty Fellowship
       • CREV Faculty Seminars
       • James Hedges Lecture Series
2. Develop faith integration resources (such as learning modules, workshops, online content, or courses) for adjunct faculty, and incentivize participation of adjunct faculty through limited reimbursement or honoraria.
   • The Office of Faith Integration has a faith integration guide for faculty
     • Faith Integration Faculty Guidebook 2012-2013 (PDF)
   • An annotated Faith Integration bibliography, which includes a variety of subject areas is distributed to new faculty
     • FI bibliography (PDF)
   • Faith Integration CFEP exemplary papers
     • Faith Integration submission: Three-Year Response Paper
     • Response to structured role questions—CFEP period 2005–08
     • Response to structured role questions for three-year contract
   • Faith Integration scholarly societies
   • Faith Integration links
   • Faith Integration new faculty PowerPoint resources
   • The Office of Faith Integration publishes a newsletter (Faith Integration Update) three times per semester with information on faculty development opportunities, book reviews, a calendar of events, ideas for program review, and other information relevant to faith integration research and pedagogy.
     • April-May 2012 update (PDF)
     • February 2012 update (PDF)
     • November 2011 update (PDF)
     • October 2011 update (PDF)
     • April 2011 update (PDF)
     • March 2011 update (PDF)
     • January 2011 update (PDF)
     • November–December 2010 update (PDF)
     • October 2010 update (PDF)
     • April 2010 update (PDF)
     • March 2010 update (PDF)
     • February 2010 update (PDF)
     • November–December 2009 update (PDF)
     • October 2009 update (PDF)
     • September 2009 update (PDF)

D. Infrastructure and evaluation

1. Evaluate the faculty faith mentorship program for standards, expectations, accountability, and outcomes.
• Individual schools/college charged to develop faith integration mentors and develop systems to ensure continuity of faith integration efforts across the curriculum
  • School of Nursing
    • FI Nursing 100 and 200 (PDF)
    • FI Nursing 300 and 400 (PDF)
    • FI Nursing Ph.D. (PDF)
2. Institutionalize a master’s program of education for faith integration.
• Goal reassessed and determined no longer compatible with overall outcomes for integration of faith in all courses at the university.
3. Develop the infrastructure, funding, and organizational by-laws for an Office of Faith Integration that reaches out to the CCCU and promotes opportunities for faculty and students at APU to demonstrate leadership in faith integration activites across the CCCU.
   • Hosted CCCU New Faculty Orientation with more than 70 participants
     • 2007 CCCU New Faculty Workshop (PDF)
   • Report to Academic Cabinet on the 2009 Fall Faculty Workshop Survey Results
     • AC Report (PDF)