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embodiment
of
the
ideals
and
prin-
ciples
of
your
college
and
as
Exhibit
A
of
what
the
educated
Christian
ought
to
be.
The
faculty
expects
from
you
an
understanding
of
the
academic
process,
leadership
toward
attain-
ment
of
institutional
goals,
in-
tellectual
respectability,
spiritual
inspiration,
executive
competence,
sensitivity
to
their
moods,
toler-
ance
of
their
idiosyncracies,
pro-
vision
for
their
perceived
needs,
support
for
their
desired
cur-
riculum
changes,
filling
of
their
most
unpopular
courses
with
eager
students,
and
perhaps
occasionally
Whenever
the
level
of
Jinancial
support
from
the
church
becomes
insignificant
compared
with
that
from
nonchurch
sources,
the
relationship
between
the
church
and
the
college
changes,
and
the
college
—not
the
church—
determines
what
that
relationship
will
be!
leadership
the
college
will
provide
higher
education
of
excellent
qual-
ity
with
strict
adherence
to
the
lof-
tiest
standards
within
a
spiritual
environment,
The
larger
society—Dbeginning
with
your
local
community
and
extending
around
the
world—has
a
right
to
expect
graduates
who
bring
to
their
tasks
not
only
skills
but
also
breadth
of
understanding,
integrity,
dedication,
and
an
orien-
tation
toward
service
rather
than
self-aggrandizement.
Leaders
at
all
levels
need
to
com-
prehend
the
interdependence
of
the
church
and
its
educational
institu-
tions.
If
both
are
mutually
suppor-
tive
and
together
follow
the
guidance
of
God
to
accomplish
their
world
mission,
the
challenges
of
change
will
be
met
with
confi-
dence
and
success.
However,
we
must
be
aware
that
potentially
irre-
versible
forces
are
present
within
both
the
church
and
our
colleges
that
must
be
resolutely
countered.
If
we
fail
to
pursue
our
challenges
in
mutual
dependence,
neither
church
nor
college
can
hope
to
succeed
in
achieving
those
lofty
goals.
0
the
ability
to
heal
the
sick
and
raise
the
dead!
The
trustees
have
entrusted
you
to
speak
for
them
to
the
institution
and
its
various
constituencies.
They
also
expect
you
to
represent
the
college
to
them—its
faculty
and
students,
its
financial
status
and
physical
plant,
its
academic
standing
and
spiritual
health—
with
frankness
and
integrity.
They
expect
that
during
your
tenure
the
college
will
make
greater
strides
toward
achievement
of
its
goals
than
ever
before.
The
Seventh-day
Adventist
Church
demands
that
under
your
The
Future
of
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Higher
Education
(Continued
from
page
12)
inflation
and
in
comparison
with
pay
scales
for
comparable
work
elsewhere.
In
a
number
of
disciplines,
such
as
business,
computer
science,
engineering,
and
some
sciences,
the
Adventist
college
teacher’s
pay
falls
in
the
bottom
one
percentile
of
all
those
in
that
profession
throughout
the
United
States.
This
situation
is
aggravated
by
the
fact
that
Adventist
Health
Systems
typically
pay
substantially
more
than
our
colleges
and
universities
for
personnel
with
the
same
qual-
ifications,
which
gives
them
a
strong
competitive
edge
in
recruit-
ment
and
retention.
Is
It
Worth
It?
With
all
the
problems
and
uncer-
tainties
today,
is
a
Seventh-day
Adventist
college
education
really
worth
it?
Let
us
not
forget
that
despite
the
sharp
enrollment
de-
cline
and
financial
difficulties
of
the
past
few
years,
17,500
students
are
currently
enrolled
in
NAD
col-
leges.
In
other
words,
our
colleges
still
produce
hundreds
of
persons
each
year
to
serve
the
church.
In
spite
of
the
difficulties
Church
subsidies
on
the
whole
have
not
kept
up
With
increasing
costs
and
represent
an
ever-
smaller
percentage
of
the
operating
budgets
on
a
number
of
campuses.
described
above,
the
colleges
and
universities
of
the
North
American
Division
graduated
nearly
18,000
students
with
bachelor’s
degrees
and
well
over
6,000
with
associate
degrees
between
1977
and
1984.
These
include
approximately
1,800
in
business
administration,
250
in
office
administration,
about
100
in
journalism,
1,500
in
elementary
education,
275
in
industrial
educa-
tion,
2,500
in
nursing,
and
almost
2,000
in
religion
and
theology.
In
addition,
approximately
800
com-
pleted
a
master
of
divinity
degree
at
the
Seminary,
and
Loma
Linda
University
graduated
more
than
600
dentists
and
nearly
1,200
physicians.’
Indeed,
where
would
the
church
be
today
without
the
approxi-
mately
90,000
students
who
have
graduated
from
the
North
Ameri-
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5,
SUMMER,
1985
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