It has been a full and fun 30 years, and I also know that it is not too late to make the most of every opportunity on campus during the twilight years of my professorship. I have learned that weighing opportunities in terms of eternal value is key. /*! elementor – v3.6.4 – 13-04-2022 */ […]
In my seven years of taking undergraduate and graduate courses, none of my professors were willing to identify themselves as Christians. Conversely, there certainly was no shortage of professors willing to ridicule Christianity. This absence of a Christian presence in the university began to rock my own spiritual foundation in a very significant way. I […]
Most faculty now have a website or a homepage. I have a homepage (http://kenelzinga.com/), something that was done for all the members of my department of economics at UVA. This happened several years ago, but I still remember my graduate student, who was very web-savvy, and was hired to set up a homepage for all […]
/*! elementor – v3.6.6 – 08-06-2022 */ .elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px} My Place to Connect Jesus to My Work For years, I found myself seeing office hours as an interruption, as a necessary evil in my faculty calling. Typically, faculty members are not enthusiastic about office hours. You can recognize this when […]
I’m trying to learn how to de-emphasize credentials as I learn to model the servanthood of Jesus. I know that much of my propensity is to emphasize academic and financial and institutional credentials; and that comes from my own deep insecurities. Credentialing can be a barrier between professors and between professors and students. The business […]
The conventional talk about Christianity in academic life is, “What does it mean to do biology or philosophy or economics or French literature from a Christian perspective?” David Dockery wrote that Christian higher education meant not only an integration of faith and learning but an integration of faith and living. This suggests considering what it […]
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. Now retired from the Academy, I have had a year to reflect on my service as an educator, a scientist, and an administrator, prompting the question: Was I a success? Twelve years of my tenure were spent […]
Integrating my academic discipline with my walk with Christ often proves more difficult than the task of identifying myself as a Christ-follower to colleagues and students. At first, I just hadn’t thought about connecting my faith in Jesus to my work in human physiology. /*! elementor – v3.6.4 – 13-04-2022 */ .elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading […]
Having a great mentor has shaped so much of my Christian life as a professor. Years ago, I discovered an experienced, older, successful faculty member from another college within the university. Rae M. had founded and directed our local Christian Faculty Fellowship. Soon after we met, Rae communicated that he was willing to invest in […]
/*! elementor – v3.6.4 – 13-04-2022 */ .elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px} Why are you so happy? When you spend so many hours a week with students, you begin to realize your role as a “whole person” educator. I realized this in an acute way when I ended class this past May and […]
