1996-1997 Cedarville College Annual Report

hange pervades our campus. The new Ministry Center, as we had hoped, has become the center of campus life. Our academic programs continue to mature and attract high~ quality students. Many of the programs garner national recognition for quality and innovation. Offices, dormitories, and other facilities are being updated continually to accommodate the continued increase in enrollment and the consequent demand on student and faculty support services. In the midst of change is an underlying stability. That stability comes from our unswerving commitment to our mission- to provide an education consistent with biblical truth. These two aspects- change and stability- are reflected in our theme for the present academic year: "Timeless Truth for Contemporary Culture." Having positioned ourselves to be both conservative and progressive is, I believe, what distinguishes Cedarville College from so many of its academic counterparts. While our faculty and students advance to the cutting edge of both technology and their academic disciplines, they do so with a clear understanding that the only source of wisdom and absolute truth is God's Word. As thrilled as I am about what God has accomplished, I am even more excited about what the future holds. We will soon launch our graduate program and are laying the groundwork for distance learning as well. CedarNet, our campuswide computer network which undergirds all our academic and administrative programs, is one of the finest available anywhere. In fact, CAUSE (the association for managing and using information resources in higher education)