Inspire, Fall 2007

Inspire 7 up to people and say ‘You need to be saved.’ He met their physical needs first. Our priority as nurses is to share love by touching people’s physical needs.” What started as a group of 30 students has transformed into a highly competitive major of more than 300 men and women, with close to 80 graduating in 2008. The faculty do not only integrate biblical principles into the curriculum; they also stand as role models for the student body. According to Dr. Conway, the professors use 2 Peter 1:3–8 to promote character development along with academic development. It is this commitment to godly instruction that brought Filip Quina from Lisbon, Portugal, to Cedarville. Filip heard about the school from teachers at the American-run Christian grade schools he attended — teachers who received their degrees from Cedarville. “The professors are excellent, caring, and dedicated,” says the 2005 graduate. “The most important thing they taught us was to be compassionate in our relationships with people — to care about the people we work with.” Without a doubt, a clear goal of the department is to help students understand nursing as a calling to follow Christ’s example. “People are never more vulnerable than when they are sick,” Dr. Christman says. “It is a privilege to walk in and touch someone’s hand as a representative of Jesus Christ.” This kind of focus is unique to Cedarville. While students may take the same anatomy and physiology classes at a secular university, what sets Cedarville apart is the emphasis on learning how to minister to people on a heart level. And that is timeless — in any decade. The ’90s: Innovation In Engineering From laptops to e-mail to the web, technology grew in the 1990s with almost unbelievable speed. By the end of the decade, the world was aware of how far we had come — and, as the year 2000 ticked inexorably closer, we knew what it would mean to lose it all. In hindsight, with Y2K safely in the past, we can look at the 1990s as a decade of tremendous innovation. At Cedarville University, the ’90s saw its own growth in a vital branch of science: engineering. Since its inception, the innovative engineering program has helped attract a group of students that had not previously been drawn to the University. Feature