Faculty Camp 06, which will focus on the topic: "In Thy Light We See Light: Theological Acuity and Academic Vocation," will feature the following speakers:

Calvin B. Dewitt
Dr. DeWitt is professor of environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, fellow of the University of Wisconsin Teaching Academy, chair of the UW-Madison Undergraduate Research and Awards Committee, and member of the UW-Madison Council on Outreach.

Dr. DeWitt serves as the director of Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies (Mancelona, Michigan) and is co-founder of the International Evangelical Environmental Network, the founding member and chair of the American Society of the Green Cross, chair of the Advisory Council for the Evangelical Campaign to Combat Global Warming and Climate Change, member of the editorial board of Science and Christian Belief, and advisor for the National Religious Partnership for the Environment.

He also holds memberships in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, American Scientific Affiliation, Christians in Science (United Kingdom), Phi Sigma Biological Honorary Society, and the Society of Wetland Scientists.

Among Professor DeWitt's recent publications is DeWitt, C.B. 2002. Complementarities of scientific understanding of nature with religious perspectives of creation. In Stephen R. Kellert and Timothy Farnham, eds. Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science Religion and Spirituality with the Natural World. Island Press, pp. 19-48. (Based upon an invited paper for a symposium at Yale University)

Visit Dr. DeWitt's web site for more information about him.

Marc Baer
Dr. Baer, professor of history at Hope College, specializes in modern British history. His most recent publications include "Sir Francis Burdett," in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004); "Theatre and Disorder in Late Georgian London" (Oxford, 1992) and "The Ruin of a Public Man," in Sheridan Studies, eds. James Morwood and David Crane (Cambridge, 1995). Besides his teaching and research, Dr. Baer helped organize the Hope College Veritas Forum, and he directs the college’s Pew Society, which helps equip Hope College students to consider and prepare for graduate school and university teaching careers.

Mary Poplin
A native of Texas, Mary Poplin earned her Ph.D. in education from the University of Texas. She began her career teaching elementary school and special education, later becoming a professor at Claremont Graduate University in California where she was director of the Teacher Education Program, 1985-95, and Dean of the School of Educational Studies, 2000-04. Between those positions, Mary worked with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. She has hosted a Summit on Accountability and Social Justice, which sought to define the major principles inherent in accountability systems in the U.S. that have been found to be effective in closing the achievement gap between rich and poor and between racial and ethnic groups.

Dr. Poplin is the author of Voices from the Inside: A Report on Schooling from Inside the Classroom (1992). More recently, she has begun to work on the application of the intellectual, social, and psychological principles of the Judeo-Christian worldview as they apply to higher education, particularly among culturally and linguistically diverse peoples and the poor.

Cameron Anderson
Mr. Anderson is the national director of InterVarsity’s Graduate & Faculty Ministries. He has served with InterVarsity for over twenty-five years and in the graduate ministry since its inception in 1987. He is an accomplished and exhibited painter, holding an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and serving as the vice president of the Board of Directors for Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA).