February 11, 2005
In Front of God and Oregon
Religious colleges and universities in the United States today make up a uniquely unregulated subculture within the universe of thousands of academic institutions. In the country's early days, all higher education was religious in its foundations, and largely so in its goals. Over time higher education for many other societal purposes emerged, sometimes nominally affiliated with a religious denomination, sometimes formally secular.
Most of the academic institutions still closely tied
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