Trinity Western University

Trinity Western University

Infobox_University
name = Trinity Western University
native_name =
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motto ="Turris Fortis Deus Noster" (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God)
established = 1962 Trinity Junior College (1962-1972), Trinity Western College (1972-1985), Trinity Western University (1986-present)
type =Private
endowment =
staff =
faculty =
president =Dr. Jonathan S. Raymond
provost =Dr. Dennis Jameson
students =
undergrad =2,414 (2005-2006)
postgrad =603 (2005-2006)
doctoral =
profess =
campus = convert|157|acre|km2|sing=on
city =Langley
state =British Columbia
country =Canada
campus =Suburban Rural
colours =gold color box|#FDD017& blue color box|#072B61
mascot =Spartan
nickname =Spartans
affiliations =ATS, CIS, CHEC, UACC, CIS, CWUAA
affiliation = Christian
free_label = Sport Teams
free = Trinity Western Spartans
footnotes =
website = [http://www.twu.ca www.twu.ca]
coor =
logo =

Trinity Western University (TWU) is a private, Christian liberal arts university located in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. The University, founded in 1962 as Trinity Junior College, currently enrols approximately 4,000 students and sits on a convert|157|acre|km2|sing=on campus. [ [http://www.langleytimes.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=47&cat=40&id=771893&more= Langley Times - Your Best source for Local Community News delivered in print or online ] ] With a broad-based arts and sciences curriculum, the University offers 40 undergraduate majors and 16 graduate programs. [ [http://www.twu.ca/undergraduate/about/fast-facts.html TWU - Fast Facts] ] TWU’s travel studies and exchange program enables students to study all over the world for either a few weeks in the summer, or for a semester or year at one of Trinity’s partner institutions or universities.

History

Trinity Western University was founded in 1962. The Evangelical Free Churches of America established a committee in 1957 to consider the feasibility of a liberal arts college on the Pacific coast. Trinity Junior College came into existence as an arts institution associated with Evangelical Free Churches of America. In 1984 it offered its first undergraduate programs. It was granted its present status as a privately funded public Christian university in 1985. Trinity Western University's motto is "A Mighty Fortress is our God" and its colours are gold and blue. [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010034 Trinity Western University ] ]

University profile

Trinity Western University is a privately funded public Christian university. The TWU focus is on total student development and education. TWU is a member of the AUCC, and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, and is recognized by the United States Department of Education.The university's seminary was accredited by Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada in 1997.cite web |url=http://www.ats.edu/MemberSchools/Pages/SchoolDetail.aspx?ID=15 |title=Member Schools |work=Associated Canadian Theological Schools |accessdate=2006-11-14]

Trinity Western’s 4,000 students [http://www.twu.ca/academics/calendar/ac0708-academic-information.pdf] hail from all 10 Canadian provinces, 37 U.S. states, and 33 foreign countries: 62% Canadian, 28% USA, and 10% international. The University employs a faculty of over 300 instructors and professors, enabling a student/faculty ratio of 11 to 1, and an average class size of 16. Over 85% of the University's professors have doctorates. [http://www.twu.ca/academics/calendar/2007-2008.aspx 2007-2008 ] ]

Programs

TWU offers a liberal arts and sciences curriculum in over 35 undergraduate and 12 graduate programs within 5 faculties: arts and religious studies, business and economics, natural and applied sciences, social sciences and education. It also offers extensive seminary training whereby students can receive graduate theology degrees. Other programs include Trinity Western Educational Services and Training (TWest-Continuing Studies), cooperative education and aviation studies. Research institutes include the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute, the Ethics Institute and the Family Research Institute. The full- and part-time enrolment is approximately 2800.

Academics

Undergraduate

The University offers 38 undergraduate majors in 100 programs (ranging from Biotechnology to European Studies to Nursing to Aviation), with over 1200 courses from which to choose. The academic structure of the university is as follows:

* Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
* Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences
* Faculty of Professional Studies and Performing Arts
* School of Business
* School of Human Kinetics
* School of Education
* Redeemer Pacific College – TWU’s constituent college of Catholic studies

Within these faculties and schools the University awards the following degrees: BA, BSc, BBA, BEd, BHK, BScN. Honours programs are also available in a number of majors.

Graduate

The School of Graduate Studies offers 16 programs of study ranging from Interdisciplinary Humanities, to Business Administration, to Nursing, to Korean Studies, to Theology, and awards the following degrees: MA, MBA, MSN, MC, MSt, MTh, MTS, MDiv, DMin.

Travel studies

Trinity’s international programs offer students the ability to study all over the world during the summer: studying Kinesiology while attending the 2008 Olympics in China, Coral Reef Biology in Hawaii, Johannine literature in Turkey, or Cross-cultural communications in Guatemala, among others.

Additionally, the University offers 15 semester programs which take place during the Fall and Spring terms. Trinity’s research and exchange partnership with the University of Oxford enables students to study as a visiting student at Oxford for either a semester or year.

Library

The [http://www.twu.ca/library/ Norma Marion Alloway Library] is the main library for undergraduate students, holding a circulation of over 300,000 books, 12,000 periodical subscriptions, and computer access to thousands more titles. The [http://archives.twu.ca:8080/ University Archives] house several special collections: the Mel Smith Archives, the Robert N. Thompson Archives, and the Lyle Wicks Papers, which chronicle Canada’s political history through the works and personal documents of these three political figures. The library also has a Korean collection.

The graduate school and seminaries each maintain their own individual libraries.

Satellite campuses

; LLC – OttawaTrinity’s Laurentian Leadership Centre certificate program offers the rare opportunity for third and fourth year TWU students to experience a fully-credited semester of study as well as a prestigious Parliamentary, business, communications or NGO internship in Canada's national capital Ottawa. Although the program is open to students of any major, it is primarily designed for those who plan a career in political science, business, communications, history or international studies, all of which are majors at TWU. It also welcomes visiting students from other educational institutions.

Students live in a restored heritage mansion, the Booth House, just minutes from Parliament Hill, taking classes in Canadian Governmental Leadership, Ethics & Public Affairs, and Law, whilst participating in an internship in business, communications, government or non-governmental sectors.

;TWU BellinghamLocated just across the US border, classes at TWU Bellingham are taught by TWU professors and count toward a degree.

;TWU RichmondRecently announced by President Jonathan Raymond in his 2008 State of the University Address was the grant of a rent-free convert|40000|sqft|m2|sing=on space to be used toward university education in Richmond.cite web |url=http://www.twu.ca/about/news/general/2008/state-of-the-university-address.html |title=Richmond Campus Announced at University Address |work=TWU |accessdate=2008-06-01]

Recognition

* Trinity Western University ranked higher than any other university in Canada in the category "Overall Quality of Education" in the "Globe and Mail's" 2006 University Report Card, an opinion poll of Canadian undergraduate students. It also ranked highest overall in its size category. TWU consistently scored the highest rank awarded in several other categories of the report:
** "Quality of Education" (A+)
** "Student-Faculty Interaction" (A+)
** "Class Size" (A+)
** "Overall University Atmosphere" (A+)
** "Most Satisfied Students" (A)
** "Quality of Teaching" (A)

* Trinity Western University alumnus CJ Patrick Davis (Research Fellow for the Canada Research Chair in Dead Sea Scrolls) was awarded the Panacea Society Scholarship for his doctoral work at the University of Manchester.

* For two consecutive years, Trinity Western University alumni (Dorothy Peters & Matthew Thiessen) have earned the University of Oxford's prestigious "Best Dissertation" award for their graduate work.

* Professor Peter Flint, Ph.D, of TWU has been appointed a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, granting the University $1.4 million for research. Dr. Jens Zimmermann (Philosophy) has been appointed to a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Interpretation, Religion, and Culture from 2006-2010. Dr. Eve Stringham (Biology) has also been granted a $500,000 Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Developmental Genetics and Disease.

* Trinity Western University is the first B.C. University, and one of six in all of Canada, to obtain Certified Financial Planner registered status, offering a bachelor-level CFP education program.

* Canada's leading conservation organization, the World Wildlife Fund, has awarded Professor Karen Steensma a $10,000 grant to complete research on the endangered Oregon Forest Snail.
* As of 2008, the men's volleyball team is the current CIS national championship team. Other recent national championship titles for the Spartans include: Men's Soccer (Silver, 2006), Men's Soccer (Bronze, 2005), Men's Volleyball (Silver, 2005), Women's Soccer (Gold, 2004).

* Spartan women's volleyball assistant coach Ryan Hofer was named Male Coach of the Year by Volleyball Canada, the National Association for Volleyball in Canada.

* The TWU student newspaper, Mars' Hill, won first place out of all four-year universities in North America, in the bi-weekly category.

* Trinity Western University was granted exempt status from detailed reviews of its programs by the Minister of Advanced Education, becoming the first non-public institution in the province granted this standing.

* In 2002, Trinity Western University president Dr. Neil Snider, was presented with the Commemorative Medal for the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (also called the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Award). Senator St. Germain described TWU as a University which is “recognized worldwide for the excellent calibre of education that it produces.”

tudent life

TWUSA

Trinity's students are represented by the Trinity Western University Students Association.

Athletics

The university is represented in the CIS league, the top university athletics league in Canada, by the Trinity Western Spartans.

Other teams, not part of the CIS, also compete for Trinity Western University including the TWU Titans hockey team, who compete in the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League, and the Trinity Western University Bombers hockey team.

Fine Arts

Members of TWU’s chamber choirs are often invited to guest perform with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, performances which have been broadcast on a number of occasions on CBC Radio; as well, TWU's choirs have performed frequently with the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, and at venues including Carnegie Hall in New York City and frequent performances at the Orpheum, Vancouver, and the Chan Shun Concert Hall. TWU's Director of Choral Activities is Wes Janzen, D.M.A., a recognized choral expert at the international levelFact|date=May 2008 and an adjudicator at numerous Choral Olympics events, now known as the World Choir Games.

Responsibilities of Membership

From time to time TWU has garnered publicity due to the University's policy known as the "Responsibilities of Membership." As a private university, Trinity has made the decision to enact certain “responsibilities" which the University believes accompanies an atmosphere more conducive to learning and community. The University makes it clear that not all of these responsibilities are meant to be reflections of biblical principles, but particular lifestyle choices made in the interest of the perceived benefits which campus-wide acceptance would promote:

"This application of the Responsibilities of Membership is not offered as a legalistic definition of right and wrong. Certain expectations may not be commanded by Scripture, but nonetheless, they are desirable and essential if all members of the community are to achieve their personal goals." [http://www.twu.ca/academics/calendar/ac0708-general-university-policies.pdf]

Regarding harassment, the University insists that all students, staff, and faculty "follow biblical principles of lifestyle and conduct and refrain from biblically prohibited practices. The Responsibilities of Membership statement expresses some of the lifestyle and conduct expectations which contribute to...providing a community in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity."cite web |url=http://www.twu.ca/studenthandbook/policies.aspx |title=University Policies |work=Student Handbook |accessdate=2006-11-14] Notably more restrictive than standards imposed by Canadian law and public universities, members of the TWU community are restricted from:

* sexual intimacy outside of the context of marriage between a husband and a wife.
* swearing or use of profane language
* abortion
* Plagiarism and stealing
* involvement in the occult
* viewing of pornography
* co-ed living arrangements for unmarried students
* use or possession of alcoholic beverages
* use or possession of tobacco in any form
* all forms of gambling

TWU vs. BC College of Teachers

In 1995, TWU launched a teaching certification program, but the British Columbia College of Teachers denied accreditation of TWU's program, arguing that the agreement students must sign is discriminatory and that those graduating from Trinity Western's program will discriminate against gay students. The lower courts in British Columbia and, later, the Supreme Court of Canada, ruled in favour of Trinity Western University, stating that there was no basis for the BCCT's decision, and, moreover, that "the concern that graduates of TWU will act in a detrimental fashion in the classroom is not supported by any evidence."

The final analysis of the case, as reported by the Factum of the Intervener, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, was that "In the circumstances of this case the Council of the B.C. College of Teachers failed to conduct such an enquiry and erroneously concluded that equality of rights on the basis of sexual orientation trump freedom of religion and association. They do not."

Notable alumni

References

External links

* [http://www.twu.ca Trinity Western University main web site]
* [http://www.bccla.org/othercontent/00twusccfactum.html Trinity Western University v. British Columbia College of Teachers]
* [http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2001/2001scc31/2001scc31.html Trinity Western University v. British Columbia College of Teachers]
* [http://www.aucc.ca/can_uni/our_universities/trinity_western_e.html Trinity Western University]


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