About Us
About us
Our Mission
The Center for Academic Faithfulness & Flourishing exists to empower Christian colleges and universities to advance their faith-based missions, equip campus leaders with the resources necessary to flourish in our present age, and encourage broader support for these unique and valuable institutions.
To strengthen and support Christian colleges and universities that swim against the cultural tide.
About Us
Our Goals
Reassert
Institutional Faithfulness
Develop a cohesive and credible counter-narrative to ideologies that undermine Christian higher education.
Redesign
Organizational Networks
Help Christian colleges and universities cultivate ideologically aligned exchange partners.
Reinvigorate
Institutional Flourishing
Design initiatives that strengthen the governance, management, and financial position of faith-based institutions of higher education.
personnel
Our Staff
P. Jesse Rine
Executive Director
P. Jesse Rine is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Academic Faithfulness & Flourishing. An award-winning professor and nationally recognized expert on Christian higher education, Dr. Rine has served in faculty and administrative roles on three faith-based campuses: Grove City College, Duquesne University, and North Greenville University. He previously directed the research programs of two national higher education associations in Washington, DC, the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Dr. Rine’s scholarship has been published in numerous edited volumes and academic journals, and he currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Christian Higher Education: An International Journal of Research, Theory, and Practice. He holds a B.A. in Christian Thought from Grove City College, an M.A.T. in Latin from Washington University in St. Louis, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Virginia.
Paul R. Brinkman
Director of Research Operations
Paul R. Brinkman is Director of Research Operations for the Center for Academic Faithfulness & Flourishing. He has served in various administrative roles in support of higher education, including database administration at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute as well as enrollment management and information technology at two faith-based postsecondary institutions, Grove City College and the Reformed Episcopal Seminary. Additionally, Mr. Brinkman has taught middle school science and assisted with the choral program at a parochial school in the classical tradition. He holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from Grove City College.
personnel
Advisory Board
Joseph Backholm
Senior Fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement
Family Research Council
Washington, DC
Gregory S. Baylor
Senior Counsel
Alliance Defending Freedom
Director
Center for Religious Schools
Washington, DC
Eric Cook
President
Society for Classical Learning
Richmond, VA
Gene C. Fant
President
North Greenville University
Tigerville, SC
David Goodwin
President
Association of Classical Christian Schools
Moscow, ID
Darren Keyes
Senior Counsel
Alliance Defending Freedom
Fort Worth, TX
Len Munsil
President
Arizona Christian University
Glendale, AZ
Larry Taylor
President
Association of Christian Schools International
Plano, TX
Todd J. Williams
President
Cairn University
Langhorne, PA
