3 hidden drivers behind rising tuition—and what students should consider instead College costs keep rising. But the real reasons aren’t always what we are told. Between tuition, housing, textbooks, and fees, the total cost of a college degree can feel overwhelming. U.S. student loan debt now exceeds $1.7 trillion, and costs continue to rise every year….
The College hosted its first Areopagus Dinner at the Hilton Charlotte University on April 10. Over 175 people attended and generously supported the college’s 2026-27 academic year. Speakers included guest speaker Rev. Tim Shaw, students Josslyn Ervin and Calvin Zappone, President Ryan Smith, and several board members. The energy in the room was palpable, and…
What happens to a person when he has a classical education in high school but decides to pursue a modern, secular education in college?
Each year, New Aberdeen students pore over a single work of literature from the classical Christian tradition. This fall, they are becoming well acquainted with John Milton’s Paradise Lost: Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast(e) Brought Death into the World, and…
This quip in classical education does not accurately express the educational goals. According to many of its proponents, classical education teaches students “how to think, not what to think.” This axiom juxtaposes the tendency in modern education to indoctrinate students into an ideology without offering them time-tested tools to interact with ideas on their own….
Something peculiar is brewing in higher education. Enrollment trends are shifting as four-year colleges are declining. In fact, high school grads are skipping tertiary education altogether. What caused these changes? Ultimately, the flaws in traditional higher education are plentiful, even at Christian colleges. Substance abuse. Sexual licentiousness. Ideological indoctrination. Antisemitism and other forms of racism….
When I was in graduate school, I strolled through our church’s cemetery each Sunday before worship. I reveled in the tangible connection to previous generations of believers. But one plot haunted me. Rev. Joseph Wilson was a staunch nineteenth-century Southern Presbyterian minister who preached at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia. His son, Woodrow, spent his…
Last weekend I watched The Return to the Hiding Place, a film tracing college students’ role in the Dutch Resistance during World War II. The movie contains a powerful scene in which a German officer confronts and threatens the student body president. The Nazi’s dictum struck a chord: “As goes the will of the students,…
He is currently writing a Systematic Theology as well as a Doctrine of God for Baker Academic. He is the author of Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father, Son, and Spirit(Baker), which won the Christianity Today Book of the Year award in theology and ethics. He is also the author of many other books such as The Reformation as…
“None of these benefits of a classical education are more basic to ministry in the Church than the graces and gifts of Christ. But they can be the means that the Spirit of Christ uses to better equip the preacher, pastor, and churchman for his noble task.”