OUR STRATEGY

Serving the Academy. CCSI views the contemporary university as a friend with whom we sometimes disagree, and whom we wish to engage in serious discussion. Every CCSI Center seeks to influence the university as an institution in positive ways, and not just the students who pass through it. This includes developing relationships, programs, events and resources that are relevant to faculty, staff and graduate students in the Christian community, and seeking to present the Christian worldview as both plausible and credible to those outside that community.

CCSI’s Associate Faculty Program seeks to help fund Christian graduate students who aspire to university faculty posts through their doctoral studies, as well as Christian faculty who teach and engage in research for universities on a non-tenured contract basis.

Serving Students. Most of a Center’s time and energy is spent here, providing resources to students in the Christian community, and engaging others in winsome ways to consider the truth and relevance of a Christian vision of life.

Serving Local Churches. CCSI Centers partner with local churches in university communities, making the resources of the Study Center available not only to university students involved in these churches, but to the larger faith community as well.

Serving Other Student Organizations. A CCSI Center seeks to work cooperatively with other religious student organizations on university campuses. Its academic and intellectual focus normally keeps it from duplicating the efforts of traditional campus ministries and, where credit courses are involved, keep it from competing for a student’s extra-curricular commitments.