November 22, 2002

Virtual Faith

By DAN CARNEVALE

A Christian university tries to preserve its values as it moves into distance education

At Eastern University, faith is a serious matter. Most students attend chapel services every Wednesday morning, and a Bible-study course is required. When the university began offering distance education five years ago, administrators and faculty members wanted to make sure they could recreate the evangelical institution's campus environment online.

But cyberspace offers no equivalent of the

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