Greetings from the President
Welcome to one of the most exciting periods of your life. The next several years promise excitement, effort, emotion, and personal growth. Our faculty await to mentor you as new ideas and expanded horizons lean toward intellectual and personal transformation. The writer of Proverbs urges, "My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare they will give you" (3:1-2). Everything this community intends for you revolves around building a learning environment that honors God and invites rigorous effort and spiritual depth. The program descriptions and academic policies contained in this catalog provide clarity and intention for the road ahead.
Mount Vernon Nazarene University exists to shape lives. Every aspect of our community is after just one thing - to participate with God in providing tools for forming Christian character. We do this by cultivating Christlikeness and educating the whole person. Christ is the frame for our education. Therefore, we seek to engage the whole person - mind, body, and spirit. God created human beings with minds capable of engaging the world, bodies prepared to embody the truth, and spirits energized and integrated through wisdom. Our graduates become lifelong learners and servant leaders. Let me encourage you to take advantage of all the resources available on this campus.
As you embark upon your studies, let me remind you of the words found in Philippians 4:8-9,
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. As for the things that you have learned and received and heard and noticed in me, do them, and the God of peace will be with you.
We care about what we do here. Your presence here is a gracious gift. We have good work to do!
Sincerely,
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Henry W. Spaulding II, Ph.D.
President