Christian Universities in Japan

Universities, especially in the United States, have developed from an organization that aims to educate someone with a higher knowledge and spiritual awareness of God which is at the same time related to the interests and goodness of society (Murphy, 2005) into an organization that considers profit as a measure of success (Bridgman, 2007). Therefore, the application of a business management system to manage a university to produce high performance is important and this is known as a university enterprise or entrepreneurial university (Sandgren, 2012). Culture is central to management because it influences various things in the organization such as leadership, organizational management, adaptability, performance, and others that will influence in the long run (Paksoy, Genc, and Kilic, 2015). In the context of a Christian-based university in Indonesia, the understanding of cultural meanings and the process of cultural formation is an interesting topic to study. Even though it has a fundamental similarity, namely Cristianity, it appears that there are different management practices and behaviours in 'A' rank accreditation Christian university on Java island. The process of cultural formation in Christian universities and its elaboration in management practices and patterns of organizational behaviour are things that are rarely studied. The purpose of this study is to explain the process of organizational culture forming in Christian-based universities on Java island. The description of this process is expected to inspire how to build an organizational culture in a university. Keywords: Culture, Organizational Culture, Organizational Behaviour, Universities, Christianity

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Christian universities as moral communities: Drinking, sex, and drug use among university students in the United States

The Social Science Journal ◽

10.1080/03623319.2021.1963108 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Jerome R. Koch ◽

Brandon G. Wagner ◽

Alden E. Roberts

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Drug Use ◽

University Students ◽

The United States ◽

Christian Universities ◽

Moral Communities

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The “Letter Should Not Beg”

Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850–1949 ◽

10.5790/hongkong/9789888528264.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 99-120

Author(s):

Dong Wang

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

National Identity ◽

Urban Communities ◽

Christian College ◽

Universities And Colleges ◽

Christian Universities ◽

The Core ◽

Comprehensive Examination ◽

Native Place ◽

North And South

Through a comprehensive examination of worldwide philanthropic efforts for Canton Christian College (Lingnan University, 1888-1951), this chapter seeks to trace modern practices of diasporic Chinese philanthropy in higher education. At the core of modern institutions taking root in China, Christian universities and colleges fashioned new possibilities and new depths of support among contacts across urban communities in Asia, Oceania, and North and South Americas. National identity, welfare sovereignty, and state-philanthropy relations have been important analytical concerns of other scholars. My foci, however, are the ideas and strategies of domestic Chinese, diasporic Chinese, and Westerners that have shaped the liberal form and content of Chinese philanthropy in higher education, the “on-going enterprise of the human spirit.” I argue that cultivating overseas Chinese philanthropy for Lingnan University involved the packaging and repackaging of higher education as a fluid symbol of opportunity, hope, native-place, Christianity, modernity, progressiveness, nationalism, and worldism, depending on the specific donor base.

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