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...quite so godless as some believers might think. There are scores of colleges that mix liberal arts and religious values to attract competitive students. Taylor College in Upland, Ind., offers the same courses as secular schools, but students can still minor in youth ministry or biblical languages. Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., is known as the evangelical Harvard for its twin traditions of quality academics and deep faith. Not that contemporary values haven't been encroaching. In 2003 Wheaton lifted its 143-year-old ban on dancing...
...post--9/11 years, New York City's business community has steadily migrated to midtown Manhattan because of its easier access to the city's northern suburbs. "For the past 25 to 30 years, lower Manhattan has suffered under a handicap, compared to midtown, due to transportation," says William Wheaton, an economist who heads research at the Center for Real Estate at M.I.T. Sept. 11 only accelerated the northern shift by the law firms and investment banks that for decades had anchored Wall Street. Immediately after 9/11, many financial firms, including Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, moved their employees...
Hampson, faced with a choice between Harvard and Wheaton College in Illinois, a Christian college, says he met members of CI and was pleased to discover the strength of the Christian community on campus...
...killings might well have fed the missionary impulse by itself. ?It brought [modern day] martyrdom alive,? says Scott Moreau, a professor of missiology at Wheaton College. ?It made it real.? But, in fact, two accelerants came into play. The first magnifier was a favorable story in LIFE magazine about the deaths with photos by a well-known war photographer, Cornell Capa. (The killings were also covered by TIME (You may note that in the archive article this tribe is referred to as Aucas). At that point, says Moreau, evangelicalism, which had only recently begun to separate from a more hard...
...connections to the University, having last served on a visiting committee in 1981. Although she is in many ways a Harvard outsider, King has extensive experience as a trustee at other universities and nonprofits. Indeed, she just finished a stint as the chair of the board of trustees at Wheaton College. Given this background, she will be able to bring in a breath of fresh air without facing the steep learning curve that someone without experience on a university board would have to deal with...