If a qualified student studies hard, they will be prepared for expanded job and career opportunities, as well as increased lifetime earnings. Tese are statistically verifiable outcomes for college graduates.


William Jessup University prepares students to become exceptionally employable. Our graduates have been and will continue to be people of competence who are capable of finding, keeping and advancing in their jobs. As we selectively grow new majors in the performing arts, natural and applied sciences, health care, kinesiology and sports management, technology and technology leadership, business and finance, advanced preparation for church leaders and beyond, these graduates will be well prepared to step into their respective workplaces with the skills and confidence necessary to be successful.


But in the landscape of California-based higher educational institutions, what makes William Jessup University distinctive and worthy of any serious student’s consideration? Te answer begins with the fact that we are a particular type of university. We are committed to building on a Christ-centered, liberal arts model in the preparation of highly competent graduates who are also people of character, creativity and compassion.


We are fully university with all of the privileges and expectations that come with accreditation as a free-standing institution of higher learning. Our professors are recognized scholars and practitioners within their fields. Tey hail from some of the most renowned schools in the world and have achieved the highest levels


of professional endorsement. Our faculty and staff are also people of deep faith and commitment to the success of students, who model through their authenticity and caring engagements godly relationships that will become cherished memories and life lessons long after formal studies conclude.


We are fully Christ-centered and every new degree, program and course reflects our abiding faith in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Te Core of the Core represents our intentionality about making sure that the DNA of a biblically-based Christian faith and scholarly rigor are fully engaged in each of our academic programs and educational activities. While we aggressively add selective new majors to our offerings, we are equally intentional about strengthening and maturing our common Core of the Core curriculum.


We are fully student focused and our students benefit in immense ways from faculty who are both thought leaders and who know how to teach and engage their students in pedagogically appropriate ways, ranging from mediated instruction to disciple-making relationships, challenging them to do their best and advance toward their highest personal and professional goals.


Together as a community of faith, we are called to be instruments of God’s grace in the lives of our students. We strive to help them fulfill their destinies as being completed in Christ and becoming transformative agents of change in whatever life and career paths follow.


The Core of the Core David Timms, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Bible & Theology


Cut an apple in half and at the very center you’ll find the seeds. They’re small but essential for the next generation of apple trees. Change or remove the seeds and you’ll have problems in no time. They form the Core of the Core.


Our culture has substantially modified the seeds that formed the core of this great nation. We’re resisting the trend. We see the chaos of a Christ-less culture and we choose to be different.


We use the phrase the Core of the Core to help us keep perspective. And at Jessup, the phrase sweeps together a range of initiatives.


Every student’s academic program divides roughly into two parts; one half delivers a strong liberal arts foundation, the other half is their major which prepares them for a specific career. It’s all immersed in a Christian worldview, but students also have a minor—six courses—in Bible and Teology. It lies at the Core of the Core. Tey hear the gospel, they learn about Scripture and they wrestle with the deep and practical questions of life from the perspective of faith in Christ.


After all, how helpful is a teacher, counselor or business-person whose worldview fails to extend beyond selfishness, relativism or personal opinion? A spiritually weak core spells disaster for the decades ahead, both personally and culturally.


But around here we use the phrase Core of the Core even more broadly. Yes, it refers to the integration of faith and learning in the classrooms, but it also refers


The Core of the Core is a defining attitude. It’s far more than lip-service.


Spiritual formation groups, chapel attendance, dorm accountability groups, pre-class devotionals, Christian service requirements and so much more all help make Christ the Core of the Core.


Te Core of the Core may sound like an educational philosophy or a community value. It’s really a person—the presence of Christ himself among us. As we keep looking to Him and pointing to Him, we’re seeing lives profoundly changed. Good apples!


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to the heart of the institution. We feel passionately about keeping Christ at the center not only of the academic curriculum but of the entire learning experience.


Students learn as much—or more—outside the classroom as inside it. Tey may learn biblical principles within a classroom context, but they truly understand those principles when they experience them beyond the classroom. We don’t limit the Core of the Core to academic assignments. Indeed, our athletic coaches, resident directors, admissions representatives, facilities personnel, faculty— everyone—strive to make Christ the center of the community.


Te Core of the Core is a defining attitude. It’s far more than lip-service. We believe deeply that information has a place but transformation makes us ready for all of life. Christ-centered is more than a slogan. It’s a conviction. When Christ is at the core of our lives, we live differently. We live fully. And the Kingdom of God begins to break through with healing, hope, freshness and power.


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