William C. (Bill) Ringenberg (Ph.D Michigan State University) completed fifty years of affiliation with Taylor University in 2017. He is the author of two Taylor histories (1973, 1996), two histories of Christian higher education (1984, 2006), two books for college students on applied Christianity (2003, 2018), and a book on academic freedom in Christian higher education (2017). He presently is working with Matthew Ringenberg, Joseph Brain, and the Indiana University Press on an autobiography of an early Taylor student (The Education of Alice Hamilton: From Fort Wayne to Harvard).