Education for a Sure Future: Eternity

1a commission appointed by the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) observed that higher education has become one of America’s greatest success stories. Yet despite its overall optimism, the commission acknowledged that American higher education “needs to improve in dramatic ways” to achieve its unfulfilled promises. Could this same message be applied to Seventh-day Adventist higher education? Could we benefit from a sharper—and perhaps more scholarly—look at our loosely coupled “system” of education? Such an assessment, while not targeting individual institutions, could assess the church’s fundamental commitments to and expectations for higher education.