Membership Overview

IACE is an education network designed to provide support for faithful Christ-centered and confessionally focused educational institutions and organizations in the evangelical tradition. The mission of IACE is to unify, synergize, and strengthen collective conviction around biblical orthodoxy and orthopraxy, cultural witness, scholarship, professional excellence, and resourcing of Christian education at all levels.

IACE membership is extended to:

IACE membership will be open to institutions, academic organizations, and partner entities committed to intellectual discipleship and embodying the following value-commitments:

  • Christ-Centered Mission and Employment Policies – IACE institutions and partners will demonstrate a Christ-centered mission and will have a hiring policy requiring that all full-time employees must be professing and practicing Christians.

  • Cooperative and Collaborative Spirit – IACE will be built on the idea of collaboration and partnership. Member institutions and partners will seek to encourage cooperation and Christian unity in order to advance the IACE mission.

  • Confessional Commitments – IACE institutions and partners, in accordance with the IACE mission, will seek to strengthen collective conviction around biblical orthodoxy and orthopraxy. The leadership of IACE institutions and partners will annually reaffirm commitments to the truthfulness of Holy Scripture and the transformational power of the gospel, affirming both the Nicene Creed and the Lausanne Covenant.

  • Cultural Witness – IACE institutions and partners will seek to reflect a faithful Christian witness that reflects commitments to biblical orthodoxy and historic Christian teachings regarding cultural engagement and renewal of foundational social order, including human life, human sexuality, marriage, and family.

 

membership categories

  • Educational Associations/Academic Organizations – all institutions related to those organizations will thus have a membership relationship with IACE

  • Institutions – defined by those who offer degrees or official academic credit

  • Partners - organizations and networks committed to intellectual discipleship and the work of Christian education

 

COre-value commitments

IACE’s core-value commitment to partnership, collaboration, and cooperation is undergirded by its members’ mutual affirmations regarding the importance of confessional Christianity. Chief among these confessional commitments are affirmation of the Triune God as Creator, Revealer, and Redeemer; the truthfulness and authority of Holy Scripture; and the uniqueness of Christ. These commitments are also seen in a Christian worldview framework and the best of the Christian intellectual tradition (shaped by Nicea, Chalcedon, and host of significant Christian thinkers) and reflected in a dedication to the importance of Christian unity, the communion of saints, and the global church (informed by an affirmation of the church as one, holy, catholic, and apostolic). 

DUES

Members will pay an annual membership fee for the services provided, which in turn will help to fund the work of the IACE.