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Ghost Ranch Conference to Again Assess Higher Education


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Date 11 Jan 1999 22:55:21

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11-January-1999 
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    Ghost Ranch Conference to Again Assess Higher Education 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-For the third year, a mix of college and university 
faculty, students, administrators, campus ministers, college chaplains and 
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) staff with responsibilities for higher 
education ministries will gather next July at Ghost Ranch for a week of 
assessing and strengthening the denomination's ministry in higher 
education. 
 
    The 1999 conference will be July 5-11. This year's conference attracted 
35 participants. 
 
    The conference will include worship, sharing of experiences, discussion 
of papers that will be prepared for the conference and the mapping of 
strategies to advance the church's ministry in higher education. 
 
    Planning committee members include Nan DeVries of Colgate University in 
New York, David Gillespie of Presbyterian College in South Carolina, Julia 
Jones of Ohio University, Miriam Pride of Blackburn College in Illinois, 
Beau Weston of Centre College in Kentucky, Dorothy McKinney Wright of the 
University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Bob Turner, Tim McCallister and 
Duncan Ferguson of the Higher Education Program Area of the National 
Ministries Division in Louisville. 
 
    More information on the Ghost Ranch Higher Education Conference is 
available from Harry Smith, conference coordinator, at 118 Camino Santiago, 
Santa Fe, NM 87501, by phone at (505) 995-0556, by fax at (505) 986-1917, 
or by e-mail at hsmiolph.parti@ecunet.org 

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