By Ally Horine | Echo
Taylor hosted a two-day higher education symposium titled "A Faith For All Generations" on Wednesday and Thursday. The symposium, which drew 100 attendees, contributed to an ongoing conversation within the university about faith and higher education.
The dialogue this year focused on how the college experience affects faith development and sustainability in the post-college years.
"The purpose of the event was to create a space for colleagues from around the country to gather and discuss relevant issues facing the future of higher education," said Kelly Yordy, program services director for the Masters of Higher Education (MAHE) Program.
This event, hosted by MAHE, is part of an annual commitment to providing a forum focused on the most pressing issues facing colleges and universities.
MAHE graduate Aaron Morrison ('14) returned to Taylor for the conference.
"I love the study of higher education, and especially the study of how Christianity and higher education overlap," Morrison said.
MAHE trains scholars of higher education to be agents of redemption and reconciliation wherever they go. The program aims to look at education holistically in light of the Christian narrative. In addition, MAHE requires students to take a spiritual formation class, which focuses specifically on how to help college students in their spiritual development.
"The symposium topic (concerned) how the higher education experience orients people to desire certain visions of 'the good life' and a just society," Morrison said. "Discussions of spirituality among college students are some of the most important discussions we can have-they're so fundamental to how colleges and universities do everything they do."
Speakers for the symposium included guests from John Brown University, University of Southern California and Notre Dame University.
"Our desire is for attendees to bring these newly explored ideas back to their campuses, and that ultimately, the ideas discussed would positively impact their programs and students," Yordy said.
