- Christianity Today's 2018 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Politics/Public LifeHas the American university gained the whole world but lost its soul?In terms of money, prestige, power, and freedom, American universities appear to have gained the academic world. But at what cost? We live in the age of the fragmented multiversity that has no unifying soul or mission. The multiversity in a post-Christian culture is characterized instead by curricular division, the professionalization of the disciplines, the expansion of administration, the loss of community, and the idolization of athletics. The situation is not hopeless. According to Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, and Todd C. Ream, Christian universities can recover their soulbut to do so will require reimagining excellence in a time of exile, placing the liberating arts before the liberal arts, and focusing on the worship, love, and knowledge of God as central to the university. Restoring the Soul of the University is a pioneering work that charts the history of the university and casts an inspiring vision for the future of higher education.

Nathan F. Alleman (PhD, The College of William and Mary) is associate professor of higher education studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Alleman studies and teaches about marginal and marginalized groups and institutions in higher education. His research includes sociological studies of faculty sub-groups (non-tenure track, faculty denied tenure, and religious outsiders) and the collegiate identities and experiences of student sub-groups (rural, first generation, undocumented, community college, religious minority, and food insecure). Alleman also writes about Christian higher education and the history of the YMCA student association movement.Todd C. Ream (PhD, The Pennsylvania State University) is professor of higher education at Taylor University, distinguished fellow with Excelsia College (New South Wales), and director of the Explorations in Small College Athletics (NCAA DIII) research initiative. In addition to authoring and editing a number of books on higher education, he has served on college and university campuses in residence life, student support services, and as a chief student development officer.Perry L. Glanzer (PhD, University of Southern California) is professor of educational foundations at Baylor University and a resident scholar with Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books including Christian Higher Education: A Global Reconnaissance, The Idea of a Christian College: A Rexamination for Today's University, Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education: Becoming Fully Human, Christianity and Scholarship in Higher Education, and The Quest for Russia's Soul. His primary scholarly and teaching interests pertain to moral education and the relationship between Christianity and education.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Can the Soul of the University Be Saved?Part I: Building the University 1. Creating the Original Blueprint of a University 2. A Cracked Pinnacle and Shifting Foundation: Attempting to Repair the University (15171800) 3. The State Takes Over the Academic Palace in Europe (17501870) 4. The American Idea of the University: Freedom Within the Bounds of Science (18251900) 5. Fracturing the Soul: The Creation of the American Multiversity (18691969)Part II: The Fragmentation of the Multiversity 6. The Fragmented Soul of the Professor 7. Falling to Pieces: Declaring Independence from Curricular Coherence 8. Fragmenting Students: The Curricular/Cocurricular Division 9. Chief Fragmentation Officer: The Advent of the Professional Administrator 10. The Multiversity's Religion: The Unifying and Fragmenting Force of Athletics 11. The Consequences of Multiversities with Fragmented Souls: Online and For-Profit Higher EducationPart III: Restoring the Soul of the University 12. When Theology Serves the Soul of the University 13. Reimagining the Academic Vocation 14. Reimagining the Academic Disciplines 15. Reimagining the Cocurricular: Transforming the Bubble to a Greenhouse 16. Reimagining Academic Leadership Epilogue: Can a University with a Singular Soul Exist? Notes Selected Bibliography Author Index Subject Index