Christ Over All
3.60 Benjamin R. Merkle, Stephen Wellum, David Schrock • Interview • "Big Ed, Too Big to Fail"
3.59 – Merkle Interview Show Notes
Timestamps
· 00:36 – Intro
· 03:14 – How Dr. Merkle Became the President of New Saint Andrews
· 06:43 – What is the Crisis of Higher Education?
· 09:25 – What is the Idea of ‘Big Ed’?
· 13:38 – Looking at Education as Parent and Fellow Educator
· 20:13 – Christian Universities Mirroring ‘Big Ed’
· 23:08 – How Many Christian Universities Are Saying We Need to Move to the Right?
· 24:17 – Don’t Take Government Funds
· 27:52 – Government Coercion and Accreditation
· 30:47 – What is Unique About New Saint Andrews?
· 34:34 – What about Someone Who Wants to Pursue Liberal Arts?
· 36:38 – What Models Influenced NSA?
· 41:16 – What Is Necessary to Begin Thinking about Providing This Type of Education?
· 43:18 – Do We Include Local Churches as a Necessary Element?
· 44:11 – How Does Gender Play a Part in NSA’s Model of Education?
· 50:24 – Closing Thoughts and Outro
Resources to Click
· “Encore: Big Ed, Too Big to Fail” – Benjamin Merkle
· “What’s the Problem With Federal Loans?” – Benjamin Merkle
· “The Financially Sustainable University: The Lost Decade” – Mark Krafft, Tom Dretler, and Jeff Selingo
· “Higher Ed Must Change or Die” – Jason Wingard
· “Student Loans Cost Taxpayers $645 Billion More Than We Were Told” – Andrew Gillen
· “The Great Interruption” – Bill Conley and Robert Massa
· “Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education” – Nathan D. Grawe
· “Who Is Ruining Our Universities? Administrators!” – Richard Vedder
· Trends in Student Aid Report 2018
· “Average Student Loan Debt 2024” – Jennifer Calonia
· “Student Loan Debt Statistics” – Melanie Hanson
· “The Uncomfortable Truth about Campus Rape Policy” – Emily Yoffe
· Theme of the Month: The Kingdom of God
Books to Read
· Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded Truth for a Leftist Agenda – Megan Basham
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