Mullen Courtesy of Houghton College Phipps Courtesy of Messiah College EDUCATION Elaine Howard Ecklund Director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University, Elaine Howard Ecklund is a sociology professor whose research touches religion, immigration, science, and gender. She is the author of Science vs. Religion: What Scientists Really Think and Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life (Oxford University Press), and a forthcoming book on how scientists balance careers with family life. She has received $4 million in grants and awards and will spend the next years researching how scientists in seven countries understand religion, ethics, and gender. Nicole Baker Fulgham Nicole Baker Fulgham is the president and founder of the Expectations Project, an organization that works with faith communities to campaign for better education for low-income public school systems. Fulgham, who grew up in Detroit and received her Ph.D. from UCLA, mobilizes faith leaders to support public education reform. Previously, Fulgham was vice president for faith community relations for Teach for America. Kara Powell A professor of youth and family ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary, Kara Powell is the executive director of the Fuller Youth Institute. research has resulted in several books on youth, including Sticky Faith (Zondervan) and Essential Leadership: Ministry Team Meetings That Work (Youth Specialties/Zondervan). As an adviser to Youth Specialties, she speaks around the country to equip youth ministry leaders. Kim Phipps College president with Grace When Kim Phipps gave the Messiah College inaugural address in 2005, she emphasized the importance of hospitality. The first female president simply advocating for providing food and lodging, but also intellectual and spiritual hospitality. The Christian college, she said, must encourage openness to the ideas and experiences of others. A demonstration of humble academic generosity, she argued, remains essential to the health of a Christian scholarly community, not merely as an expression of civility. As she explained in detail in an essay, academic hospitality a methodology of inquiry that humbly assumes that we can learn as much (or more) from those with whom we disagree as we can from our like-minded To make it clear that this spirit of inquiry is not designed to foster an epistemological or moral relativism, Phipps grounds her case for hospitality in biblical authority. To take the thoughts and experiences of others seriously is to respect the image of God in each human being. Phipps has translated hospitality into acts of institutional leadership, initiating new programs at Messiah in diversity, faculty research, vocational discernment, and curricular integration. In demand as a speaker and author, she also shepherds a vision in the broader world of Christian higher education as the chair of the board of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities. Mouw, president, Fuller Theological Seminary Shirley Mullen historian and College president Shirley Mullen was first a force among Christian historians and then a much admired administrator at Westmont College before becoming president of Houghton College in 2006. In evangelical higher education, she is distinctive for the depth of her academic preparation, the insight of her institutional leadership, and the breadth of her Christian concerns. The Nova Scotia native wrote a doctoral dissertation at the University of Minnesota on unbelief in the English Victorian era and a second doctoral dissertation on the philosophy of David Hume at the University of Wales. She has also been a promoter of Christian approaches to history, her contributions marked by the balanced seriousness that characterizes all of her work. Under leadership, Houghton has strengthened natural sciences studies and begun social outreach programs. She has rebuilt relationship with Sierra Leone, created a partnership with AmeriCorps, and has had renowned Christian celebration put on in Rochester and Buffalo. Mullen has not sought the limelight, but by excelling as a scholar, administrator, and actively concerned Christian, she offers a permanent effect for good in evangelical and academic communities. Noll, professor of history, University of Notre Dame October 2012 I ST IAN I TODAy