Americans’ faith in higher education is dwindling. In fact, Marvin Olasky of Christianity Today highlighted the “Report of the Yale Committee on Trust in Higher Education” which found that “70 percent of people in 2025 said higher ed is heading in the wrong direction.”
This distrust is for many reasons–political, financial, educational, religious, and more. The question is: what are we to do about it?
Olasky, an Ivy League grad himself, encouraged hesitancy when it came to donating directly to major universities. What he promoted instead? Gifts to Christian study centers.
Centers like The Rivendell Institute at Yale or Chesterton House at Cornell “take up the historic mission of the college as an educational institution pursuing the moral and intellectual formation of persons.” He notes that while Christian colleges are important, that these growing study centers and the Consortium of Christian Study Centers are providing “a Christian presence at influential secular universities.”
Click here to read the full article and learn more about the growing impact of Christian study centers nationwide and why many are seeing them as one of the most promising models for renewing faith, formation, and intellectual life on today’s campuses.
