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History
Youth for Christ magazine was founded in 1944 as an organ of the network of independent evangelistic youth rallies that was coalescing into the organization Youth for Christ (YFC). In the early years, the publication focused on the evangelistic programs of its parent organization, featuring coverage of YFC’s international efforts and the rise to fame of Billy Graham, who had begun his career as an evangelist employed by YFC. In the 1950s and beyond it expanded its focus to discussing current cultural and social concerns from a Christian perspective. In October 1965, the name of the magazine was changed to Campus Life, the same name YFC had begun using for its local high school clubs. In late 1980, the magazine was sold to Campus Life Publications, Inc, a new nonprofit focused solely on the publishing of Campus Life magazine.
In July 1982, Campus Life Publications, Inc. merged with Christianity Today, Inc. In January 2006, the name of Campus Life magazine was changed to Ignite Your Faith in January 2006.:1″>”Campus Life magazine to change name in January”. Spero News. November 14, 2005. Archived from the original on April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.</ref> Writers and editors who served at Campus Life and Ignite Your Faith include Philip Yancey, Warren Wiersbe, Dawson McAllister, Stephen R. Lawhead, Gregg Lewis, James P. Long, Chris Lutes, Dean Merrill, Harold Myra, Paul Robbins, and Tim Stafford. In January 2009, Christianity Today International announced that it was ending publication of Ignite Your Faith after the Spring 2009 issue. The March 2009 edition of Christianity Today described the decision to discontinue the print publication as product of “general belt-tightening efforts demanded by the current economy” and assured readers that the publication would continue in online form.
Uses
The Kuopio Campus of the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, North Savonia, Finland.
The meaning expanded to include the whole institutional property during the 20th century, with the old meaning persisting into the 1950s in some places.
Office buildings
The Googleplex, a corporate campus in California
Sometimes the lands on which company office buildings sit, along with the buildings, are called campuses. The Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, is a good example of this usage. Hospitals and even airports sometimes use the term to describe the territory of their respective facilities.
Universities
Aerial panorama of Oxford city in 2016. The University of Oxford does not have a central campus, instead maintaining many buildings scattered around the city.
The word campus has also been applied to European universities, although some such institutions (in particular, “ancient” universities such as Bologna, Padua, Oxford and Cambridge) are characterized by ownership of individual buildings in university town-like urban settings rather than sprawling park-like lawns in which buildings are placed.
