If we are to achieve this in an atmosphere of excellence we must recruit students who are serious about learning. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. We must recruit and retain faculty who are not only Christian men and women but who have the highest preparation for teaching. We will also have to expand our library offerings and increase the percentage of our resources that go directly into the teaching process. Far too often we have confused Christianity with mediocrity.
Mediocrity is never acceptable but Christian mediocrity is out of the question.
Our God calls us to the highest and best and to present less is to offer a sick sheep on the altar. We must assail the gates of ignorance with the best we have to give. Rather than restricting educational opportunities, Christian commitment should fire and inspire our students to purposeful learning and service and liberate them in such a way that horizons are enlarged, insights deepened, minds sharpened, while all the while becoming cognizant to the truth that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. A second area of focus will be to develop an attractive campus with a strong residential program. In January our resident population will double.