With few job openings available for graduating seniors, recruiters are an especially welcome sight on college campuses these days. When Josh Dickson, a recruiter at Teach for America, would show up at liberal-arts colleges this year, the earnest 25-year-old would hear student after student explain that their most urgent desire had always been to teach in a low-income community.
It may sound like exactly the kind of interaction that takes place on hundreds of campuses across the country. But there’s something distinctive about the colleges and universities where Dickson has been doing his recruiting: they’re all religious schools. And Dickson isn’t your standard nonprofit recruiter. A devout Christian, he honed his persuasion techniques evangelizing to classmates as a leader of his university’s chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ.
