Publications
Books
The Purpose Guided Student (McGraw-Hill)
Jerry Pattengale’s The Purpose-Guided Student: Dream to Succeed helps students to find their way, and to be excited about doing so! Through connecting class work to life passions, Pattengale helps students to persist to graduation and beyond. The Purpose-Guided Student has a practical and engaging “big picture approach” that helps students “to create dreams stronger than their struggles,” and to develop intrinsic motivation. Engaging students in discussions about important questions relative to their future and capitalizing on the many classes and campus experiences students face, The Purpose-Guided Student motivates students find their passion and succeed in college and beyond.
Helping Sophomores Succeed (Jossey-Bass)
Helping Sophomores Succeed offers an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of the common challenges that arise in a student's second year of college. Sponsored by the University of South Carolina's National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience® and Students in Transition, this groundbreaking book offers an examination of second-year student success and satisfaction using both quantitative and qualitative measures from national research findings. Helping Sophomores Succeed serves as a foundation for designing programs and services for the second-year student population that will help to promote retention, academic and career development, and personal transition and growth.
Why I Teach (McGraw-Hill)
Striking a cord for campus' entire faculty and future teachers. Contributions from Parker Palmer, Laurie Schreiner, Bill Placher, Edwin Yamauchi, Joseph Bentz, Jerry Forbes and others. The author's Life Wedge concept, Crossroads Principle, and Vertigo discussion have professional currency.
Str8T@lk: Clear Answers About Today's Christianity (Triangle, second edition)
People today are barraged with contradictory messages about Christianity. Who has the right message? In Straight Talk: Clear Answers about Today's Christianity, historian and professor Jerry Pattengale explains how to reach an informed opinion about these mixed signals by consulting Christianity’s primary source--the Bible. Dr. Pattengale’s premise is to understand Christ based on His central teaching and to measure all discussions of Christianity against a scriptural barometer. In a writing style that is lively and anecdotal, Dr. Pattengale carefully structures his analysis around such topics as salvation, discipleship, morality, sanctification, and doctrinal positions.
Visible Solutions for Invisible Students: Helping Sophomores Succeed (USC-National Resource Center)
Years of experience and direct observation on campuses across the nation have led educators to conclude that sophomores receive the least attention of any class. While a growing number of institutions are experiencing some success in reducing first-year attrition, the question remains has this successful programming merely postponed the inevitable attrition to the sophomore year? By pulling together a variety of views on sophomores and examining sophomores' unique needs and issues, we hope to provide institutions with a blueprint not only for addressing sophomore attrition, but also for energizing sophomores so they may benefit more from their educations.
Leading Business by the Book (Triangle)
Choices come in different forms. Whether you own your own business or run another’s company, or whether you manage a small operation, a division, or a large corporation, the principles of management are the same. Some decisions are routine in nature. We know exactly what to do and when to act. Some decisions are unprecedented. We have no past experience or case studies to consult. Other decisions allow considerable deliberation and a thorough response. And then there are the spontaneous decisions. No teammates to consult. No board members around. Nothing to go by but sensible principles from tested turf and, if you’re wise, principles that are grounded in biblical truths. One of the keys you’ll find in my business approach is that if you manage by the Book, your best resource never changes and is always at your fingertips.
A Brief Guide to Objective Inquiry (Triangle)
The Christian college seeks to educate, both for making a living and for living a full life. This book focuses upon the latter goal. It seeks to assist students who are seeking truth and acquiring the perceptual skills for increasingly growing in understanding. Few things are as important as this!
Heads Up Choices (Online)
Too many parents have fought over the interpretation of a rule while the spirit of the law and various character issues have been ignored. It's time to rise up and to grasp securely the seeds of greed and manufactured glory and toss them from our infields. It's time to discard coaches with double standards and special rulings. It's time to march in full uniform from smoke-filled rooms of slander and cursing -- dens where we seem to have lost sight of why we "draft" players in the first place. It's a season to sit with struggling parents in the bleachers and to be sensitive to their sagas without compromising our principles. Each player on the field is a special story. It's time for the kids to kick up the dust and to laugh and play and learn. This is also the time to help parents in decent programs to protect all that is good in their local organizations and to provide them with Biblical guidelines to do so.
Other Publications
Dr. Jerry Pattengale's other publications include a variety of newspaper and periodical articles, including the Buck Creek Chronicles, some of which are available online on the Selected Writings page of this site.
