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The Echo: April 4, 2022, Taylor University

2021-2022 (Volume 109)

Taylor names three honorary doctorate recipients — Satisfaction survey gives insight to campus needs — Campus debate team discusses transgender athletes — Presidential fellows announce “Wonder” event — Taylor participates in the Race to Zero Waste — High school summer program preparation is underway — Spring Fashion: Trends on and off the runway — A world opened through subtitles — U.S. human trafficking crisis — Sorrell experiences life in Spain — ICC hosts the beloved Taylor event, Airband — ‘The Batman’ explores the flaws of the iconic character — TU Film Program wins national recognition — Golf teams kick off …

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni, Parents And Friends (Spring 2022), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Spring 2022 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Social Problems Framework, Steve Bird

Engaging Teaching Today Conference

This is an example faith and disciplinary content integration assignment for Sociology 210: Contemporary Social Issues by Dr. Steven Bird.

This was featured during the Engaging Teaching Today Conference on April 9, 2022 at Taylor University.

Rehearsal Journal, Tracy Manning

Engaging Teaching Today Conference

This is an example faith and learning integration assignment for Theater 432 and 433, directing courses taught by Professor Tracy Manning.

This was featured during the Engaging Teaching Today Conference on April 9, 2022 at Taylor University.

25 Bible Verses To Connect Faith And Mathematics Using Weekly Devotionals, Written Reflections, And Memory Verses, Mark Colgan

Engaging Teaching Today Conference

Faith and learning integration can take various forms for different faculty members, but I believe it helps to do it regularly (at least once per week) by giving students a chance to discuss in groups and then write about their own ideas. On Monday, I typically pick a verse that relates to the week’s topics. I write the verse on the board before students arrive, along with a discussion question, and then show a YouTube video related to the verse. I have students briefly discuss the question in groups, and they can memorize the verses for bonus points on quizzes. …

Personal Profile, Ben Hotmire

Engaging Teaching Today Conference

A semester-long, sequential assignment intended to help students increase spiritual, individual, and professional self-awareness.

This is an example faith and disciplinary content integration assignment or EDU 307: Discipline and Classroom Management for Secondary Teachers by Dr. Ben Hotmire.

This was featured during the Engaging Teaching Today Conference on April 9, 2022 at Taylor University.

Discussion Prompt From Introduction To Forensic Science (Che120) – A Foundational Core Course, Daniel King

Engaging Teaching Today Conference

This is an example faith and learning integration assignment for Chemistry 120, Introduction to Forensic Science taught by Dr. Daniel King.

This was featured during the Engaging Teaching Today Conference on April 9, 2022 at Taylor University.

Grace, Grace, By The Side Of The Road, Hannah Tienvieri

English Senior Capstone

"Grace, Grace, By the Side of the Road" is a collection of poetry and creative nonfiction that contemplates the messiness of growing up and the events, relationships, and environments that shape a person’s identity. This collection traces my experiences from early childhood to college and maintains a particular interest in the landscape of the Midwest as being as integral to my sense of self as family, friendships, and the body. The text itself is an attempt to wrestle with the question: what does love look like amid hardship, change, and imperfection? In “Grace, Grace, By the Side of the Road,” …

The Echo: March 14, 2022, Taylor University

2021-2022 (Volume 109)

Taylor Ethics Bowl team beats Yale at nationals — Envision Film Festival recognizes student projects — Taylor hosts Q Union to discuss culture, faith, church — An unforeseen journey to Taylor — Mini Scoops: Taylor Tunnels — Taylor holds week of prayer — Reagan, Rice explain set design process — Newly elected leaders promote fearlessness — Why HB1134 could harm classrooms — It’s nt all about politics — Ukraine’s new war against terror — Steven Day influences peers on and off the stage — 2022 Nostalgia Night brings retro to Rediger auditorium — Cellar Door — Social work majors spend …

The Echo: March 7, 2022, Taylor University

2021-2022 (Volume 109)

Taylor celebrates women’s history — Spring break missions trios return — Residents of Kyiv evacuate the city — Holly Whitby join Taylor to work in enrollment, marketing — Counseling Center begins therapy groups, workshops — KSAC exercise classes return — Dean of Sciences shares her experiences — Women’s Giving Circle supports students, faculty — Programming for women is needed — Beauty, ambition and talent — Learning from women leading — Indie pop star performs at Taylor University — Gender stereotypes in film damage viewer perceptions — Breaking the glass ceiling, shaping history — Modern Solutions Required — Taylor professor paves …

The Echo: February 28, 2022, Taylor University

2021-2022 (Volume 109)

Student campaign runs unopposed in election — Title IX proceedings moves to Human Resources — MAHE redistributes head leadership — Boosters required for up-to-date vaccination — DC, Stu update services for the spring semester — Campus experiences maintenance employee shortage — J-term trips provide deep experiences — Therapy dogs alleviate stress among students — Pursuing learning beyond February — How to avoid ‘us vs. them’ — Meet Opinions Editor Sophia King — ABC series tells story of Emmett Till’s murder — LA gives five senior students a semester to remember — Fire Arts Feature — ‘I love being Black’ — …

The Echo: February 21, 2022, Taylor University

2021-2022 (Volume 109)

Taylor celebrates Black History Month — Cunningham set to speak at commencement — Presidential Fellows Program starts full year at Taylor — J-term trips abroad remain impactful despite COVID-19 — Global Need-to-Know — Honoring the legacy of Samuel Morris — Looking back before looking forward — Black history February — Chapel speakers need a new intro — “To Kill a Mockingbird” takes stage at Taylor — Students take the stage in Nashville with CMC — Cellar Door — J-Term trips honors Black History Month — Celebrating friendship year-round — Women’s basketball defeats Grace — Competitive cheer competes in year’s first …

The Echo: February 14, 2022, Taylor University

2021-2022 (Volume 109)

Taylor dissolves Dean of Students position — Indiana responds to OSHA vaccination mandate — Tom Jones receives Sagamore of the Wabash award — Jan. 6, 2021: Revisiting the attack on the Capitol — Veal, Wallace recognized nationally for film — ‘Little Women’ boasts three sold-out performances — Peterson, Sumner ring in the new year — Weight room receives significant upgrades — Baseball begins spring season with split wins in Arizona

From Renaissance To Robert: The Machiavellian Cycle Of Life, Death, And Rebirth, Noah Huseman

English Senior Capstone

In this paper, I explore the recursive nature of cultural commentary as it is informed by evolution of the monster. As one culture rises to prominence, so does the monster which comments upon it. I specifically examine the cultural monstrosity of the Machiavellian archetype as it is portrayed across time, first placing Machiavelli's theory in its original context, then branching out to the cultural context surrounding its appearance in both the literature of Renaissance England and the stories of today. Once I set up the broader theoretical context, I probe more deeply into two literary depictions of the Machiavel: Iago …

Sanctuary, Abigail G. Chandler

English Senior Capstone

Sanctuary is a collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that explores relationships. I pull from my own experiences with family, friendships, self-knowledge, and the divine to connect with readers over shared loss and over attempts at understanding goodness, beauty, and truth. Sanctuary seeks to look at relationships multilaterally, holding pain and pleasure in juxtaposition. Everyone needs people who make them feel safe, wanted, and known, and sanctuary is not found in the same places for everyone.

The Paradox Of Loss, Abby Pugsley

English Senior Capstone

The Paradox of Loss is a collection of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that leans into the tension humans experience as eternal beings in a world marked by impermanence. We encounter loss in countless ways throughout our lives, and yet we also look toward a future where all is restored. This collection is an exploration of the losses I have experienced, presented in both fictional and nonfictional forms. My hope is to show the life that pervades even in loss, both through our attachment to the physical world and in the way our grief points toward our desire for permanence, …

The Effects Of Trauma On Identity Formation: Pursuing And Obtaining Individual Freedom In Emerson’S Nature And Creech’S Chasing Redbird, Mckenzie Hershberger

English Senior Capstone

Nature and Chasing Redbird provide poignant examples of the restorative power found in the natural world, and a thorough analysis of the works and lives of the authors reveal past trauma created the need for this restoration. Traumatic experiences shape an individual’s thought processes, as each decision the individual makes is based upon fearing an uncertain outcome. Throughout Nature, Emerson references a child’s innocence, demonstrating that a child’s perspective has not yet been tainted by experience. Emerson idealizes his past childhood as he endured grievances that motivated him to confront his trauma while in nature himself. An example for Emerson’s …

Ilium 2022, Taylor University

Yearbooks (1898-Present)

The 2022 yearbook of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Exploring White Racial Identity Development Within Christian Colleges, Glen Kinoshita

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Racial identity development is a growth process in which many college students engage as they regularly interact with peers and instructors from diverse backgrounds. As compositional diversity, as well as diversity of thought, lags at Christian colleges, the purpose of this qualitative, narrative study was to understand how White students who have undergone significant progress in their racial identity development, describe their process while attending predominantly White, evangelical, Christian colleges. Three participants from three Christian colleges/universities were interviewed, a total of nine, White student participants. One college was located in the Pacific Northwest and two colleges were located in Southern …

Purpose And Autonomous Functioning In College Students, Michelle Steffenhagen

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

This study sought to understand the relationship between a sense of purpose and autonomous functioning in college students. Further, the results were compared with the independent variables of gender, volunteerism, and faith community participation. Participants (n = 356) were undergraduate college students at a small private liberal arts Christian institution located in the Midwest of the United States of America. Measures included the Claremont Purpose Scale and the Index of Autonomous Functioning. Pearson correlations were used to analyze the data, and purpose and autonomous functioning were positively correlated. Women reported higher levels of a sense of purpose and autonomous functioning. …

Advising And Supporting College Students Experiencing Imposter Syndrome: A Christian Perspective, Jeannine Kranzow

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

For Christian student affairs educators, it is essential that the methods of advising and supporting students be in line with biblical directives for a whole and holy life. This paper will examine approaches for advising and supporting students experiencing imposter syndrome. Current research on impostor syndrome is presented as well as a discussion of ways that Christian insight can provide additional guidance and awareness for supporting struggling students. By connecting both biblical wisdom and the current scholarship, a Christian perspective of impostor syndrome, anchored in a discussion on spiritual warfare, is offered. Using this perspective, recommendations for practice are identified.

Growth: 21 (2022) Full Issue

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

The full issue of the twenty-first edition of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development.

Ambitious And Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed And Struggle In American Higher Education, Sara Vander Bie

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Sara Vander Bie reviews Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education by Yingyi Ma, published by Columbia University Press, 2020.

Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health, Christina Brandsma

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Christina Brandsma reviews Nature Rx: Improving College-Student Mental Health by Donald A. Rakow and Gregory T. Eells, published by Cornell University Press, 2019.

Taylor University Catalog 2022-2023, Taylor University

Undergraduate Catalogs

The 2022-2023 academic catalog of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Taylor University Graduate Catalog 2022-2023, Taylor University

Graduate Catalogs

The 2022-2023 graduate catalog of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Living Life Together: A Qualatative Study Of Taylor University's Lifestyle Covenant, Jana Roste

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Taylor University, a small, Christian, liberal arts institution in the Midwest, utilizes a lifestyle covenant which outlines expectations for campus life to promote character development and fulfill the university’s mission. In pursuit of exploring community members’ perceptions of the Life Together Covenant (LTC), the larger qualitative study, consisting of individual interviews with ten senior students, ten staff members, and ten faculty members, found that participants generally perceived the LTC as a guide or set of expectations to live cohesively at Taylor. This article focuses on the student findings and analyses. Students generally perceive and experience the LTC in a legalistic …

Algorithms Of Opporession: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Jazmin Dantzler

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Jazmin "JD" Dantzler reviews Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Stafiya Umoja Noble, published by NYU Press, 2018.

Finding Jesus In The Storm: The Spiritual Lives Of Christians With Mental Health Challenges, Jeffrey Tabone

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Jeffrey Tabone reviews Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges by John Swinton, published by Eerdmans, 2020.

Gothic Determinism: The Interplay Of Atavism And Hope In "The Old Nurse's Story" And "The Fall Of The House Of Usher", Madison Howland

English Senior Capstone

No abstract provided.