FACULTY DIALOGUE
Journal of the Institute for Christian Leadership
Statement of Purpose & Guidelines for Submitting Articles
As a journal for faculty people in Christian higher
education, Faculty Dialogue provides an avenue for exchange
of insights, experiences, and encouragement. The mission of the
Christian college and university is to be the unique focus, and
the source of the majority of articles are the faculty themselves
and other scholars with pertinent views regarding higher
education.
Access to the journal is intended to encourage a
significant increase in the reflective and critical dialogue on the
intentions and accomplishments of Christian higher education
institutions. Manuscripts are encouraged which address issues
and choices relevant to facing real world problems from the
Christian biblical perspective. (Manuscripts pertinent to specific
scholarly disciplines should be directed by their authors to
appropriate publications). Faculty Dialogue is national in
scope. Its pages are open to Christian faculty in all
higher education institutions.
Some issues of the journal are topical or thematic with
most of the articles related to a selected theme--usually a
controversy, problem, or issue within Christian higher education.
Other issues are eclectic in nature and broadly representative
of concerns and issues. The journal welcomes "letters to the
editor" in response to material presented in the prior issue. Your
contribution is invited. Unsolicited articles will be considered by
the editorial staff and advisors. Accepted articles may be held
until an appropriate group is collected for a thematic issue of the
journal.
The journal remains open to one further type of article:
experiential narratives dealing with the processes through which
faculty people have gained significant insights. Whereas most
scholarly journals give little if any opportunity to share highly
subjective material, Faculty Dialogue opens the door a crack to
that vast lore which usually gets shared no further than the late-
night chat with one's closest colleagues.
Manuscripts are to be accompanied by abstracts stating the
writer's (1) thesis/premise, (2) vantage point, and (3) defense,
support or rationale. In short,
Faculty Dialogue's editors
encourage a conclusion which speaks to the paper's import or 'So What?'
implication for Christian higher education.
Manuscripts should be no longer than 20 double-spaced
pages (excluding bibliography) and follow the accepted style
manual for the author's respective discipline. Submissions must
also include an abstract--both are preferred on either size, high-density
DOS floppy diskette (not Macintosh), indicating the word processing
format used, and accompanied by one hard copy of the article and
the abstract They can also be aFTP'd to iclnet93.iclnet.org.
Manuscripts submitted only in a written form, though not
preferred, are also acceptable. Manuscripts should be submitted
to Judy Frandsen, Technical Editor, Faculty Dialogue, Institute for
Christian Leadership, 12753 SW 68th Avenue #299, Tigard,
OR 97223-8323 503.598.7889; fax-598.7884;
Internet-journal@iclnet93.iclnet.org.
Authors will be notified when their manuscript has been
received by ICL. Formal acceptance or rejection of articles will be
determined within approximately 90 days from the date of
receipt of the manuscript. Because of the nature of our
publication schedule, we may not always be able to inform
authors far in advance as to the issue in which their article will
be published. Authors who wish to submit manuscripts to other
publications prior to being published in Faculty Dialogue should
notify ICL so the integrity of their publication rights is
maintained. However, manuscripts submitted for the Ted Ward
and Howard Vollum Writing Awards must first be published in
Faculty Dialogue.
