In a plenary session at the Fall 2018 Society of Professors in Christian Education (SPCE) conference, David Dockery, President of Trinity International University, offered his perspectives on fifteen areas of concern regarding the future of Christian higher education. This article reviews these fifteen areas of change and challenge and revisits the need for and desired qualities of confessional Christian higher education and implications for the present and future.
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