3.60 Benjamin R. Merkle, Stephen Wellum, David Schrock • Interview • "Big Ed, Too Big to Fail"

3.59 – Merkle Interview Show Notes Timestamps · 00:36 – Intro · 03:14 – How Dr. Merkle Became the President of New Saint Andrews · 06:43 – What is the Crisis of Higher Education? · 09:25 – What is the Idea of ‘Big Ed’? · 13:38 – Looking at Education as Parent and Fellow Educator · 20:13 – Christian Universities Mirroring ‘Big Ed’ · 23:08 – How Many Christian Universities Are Saying We Need to Move to the Right? · 24:17 – Don’t Take Government Funds · 27:52 – Government Coercion and Accreditation · 30:47 – What is Unique About New Saint Andrews? · 34:34 – What about Someone Who Wants to Pursue Liberal Arts? · 36:38 – What Models Influenced NSA? · 41:16 – What Is Necessary to Begin Thinking about Providing This Type of Education? · 43:18 – Do We Include Local Churches as a Necessary Element? · 44:11 – How Does Gender Play a Part in NSA’s Model of Education? · 50:24 – Closing Thoughts and Outro Resources to Click · “⁠Encore: Big Ed, Too Big to Fail”⁠ – Benjamin Merkle · ⁠“What’s the Problem With Federal Loans?”⁠ – Benjamin Merkle · ⁠“The Financially Sustainable University: The Lost Decade”⁠ – Mark Krafft, Tom Dretler, and Jeff Selingo · ⁠“Higher Ed Must Change or Die”⁠ – Jason Wingard · ⁠“Student Loans Cost Taxpayers $645 Billion More Than We Were Told”⁠ – Andrew Gillen · ⁠CTEEReport Fall 2021⁠ · ⁠“The Great Interruption”⁠ – Bill Conley and Robert Massa · “⁠Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education⁠” – Nathan D. Grawe · “⁠Who Is Ruining Our Universities? Administrators!”⁠ – Richard Vedder · ⁠SHEEO FY 2018 Report⁠ · ⁠Trends in Student Aid Report 2018⁠ · ⁠“Average Student Loan Debt 2024”⁠ – Jennifer Calonia · ⁠“Student Loan Debt Statistics”⁠ – Melanie Hanson · ⁠“The Uncomfortable Truth about Campus Rape Policy”⁠ – Emily Yoffe · ⁠Theme of the Month: The Kingdom of God⁠ · ⁠Give to Support the Work⁠ Books to Read · ⁠Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded Truth for a Leftist Agenda⁠ – Megan Basham