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Presents surveys on what students want from their colleges and the kind of life they led in their respective universities. Things students are asking from their colleges; Why academic institutions are being forced to expand their psychological counselling services; Types of academic hurdles students face. INSETS: Studies used in this article;Resources.

Discusses the conflicting arguments among cultural diversity advocates with respect to community. Allegorical tale; Arguments among cultural diversity advocates; Relativism and separatism; Highest vs. lowest common denominator; Three ways in which the sense of community can be claimed by the cause of cultural diversity.

Discusses the challenge that cultural diversity presents to the curriculum and how to engage faculty involvement. New constructs; Bringing cultures into the classroom; Resistance produced by change; Fear of what will happen when students are exposed to the knowledge of cultures that have suffered historical subordination; Innovations; More.

Cram and Saunders utilize biblical studies and Christian religious educational praxis to clarify the dimensions of the crisis in theological education, and argue for a practice of teaching which is communal and theological education which is formative, critical and most of all, public. They propose a new concept of theological education built on models of early Christian communities.