Abstract
A he issue of institutional identity for colleges and universities with religious ties is not new. educational context of the 1980s is new, and the concerns about distinctive institutional mission and purpose now are more important and persistent. impact of the academic revolution on church-related higher education has been introduced recently into the discussion on identity. In 1967, Christopher Jencks and David Riesman predicted in Academic Revolution that the majority of denominational colleges would cling to their religious labels as protection against anonymity and that the distinctiveness of the Protestant college would be lodged in the alternatives to the secular world it provided. In his 1980 book, On Higher Education, Riesman includes a chapter on churchrelated colleges, The Limits of Student Choice: Evangelical Colleges. These institutions, he says, are distinguished by clear and far-
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