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An Investigation Into Current Evangelical College Secularization, William Arthur Wilson
An Investigation Into Current Evangelical College Secularization, William Arthur Wilson
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This study investigated the claim that some of the academically best evangelical colleges are in the process of secularizing. An instrument was developed which differentiated between evangelical and more liberal positions on religious, social, and political issues. Faculty attitudes were measured as representative of a particular college's position.;In Phase I, the DISCRIMINANT Program of the SPSS produced a predictor equation based on those questionnaire items which best discriminated between a stratified, random sample of faculty at known evangelical colleges and a similar sample at known secularized, church-related institutions. Validity of the instrument was shown as 94.59% of the evangelical professors …
In Search Of A Home : An Historical Analysis Of The Major Factors Concerning The Location Of Virginia Commonwealth University, Ann Laurens Williams
In Search Of A Home : An Historical Analysis Of The Major Factors Concerning The Location Of Virginia Commonwealth University, Ann Laurens Williams
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation was written to examine the hypothesis that, although there were numerous factors affecting the selection of a site, it was primarily a financial decision to maintain the urban environment of the former Richmond Professional Institute campus as the basis of the new Academic Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. Other factors involved in the decision include political, historical, social and academic ones.;The political factor involved a division between the City of Richmond and the County of Henrico as to the location of the Academic Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University. Senator William F. Parkerson, Jr., of Henrico County fought hard …