DR. JOHN JACKSON, PRESIDENT


President’s Column


William Jessup University is a Liberal Arts University and I’m Proud of it!


Some people are nervous about the “liberal arts” in our highly technological age.


Some are fearful of the word “liberal” or the word “arts” fearing that we have either left our biblical moorings or have become irrelevant to the real world we live in. William Jessup University made the intentional declaration that we would become a Christ-centered liberal arts university when we moved to Rocklin, CA in 2004 and changed our name. Some of our Jessup family may have wondered then or now if being a liberal arts university means that we have wandered from a clear focus on being Christ-centered. Nothing could be further from the truth.


We are unashamed to embrace the liberal arts because we know that God is the source of all truth. We see God revealing Himself in nature, in the written word, and in Jesus, the Living Word. Because of this, we know that learning to read, write, think, and speak well is a God-honoring task. In addition, Jesus told us that we should love Him with all our “heart, soul, mind, and strength.” At Jessup, we often describe a faith in Jesus that gets lived out in our “head, hearts and hands.” In our view, liberal arts never go out of style. It is never a bad thing to learn to love and serve Christ and His Kingdom in the marketplace as people who know how to read, write, think and speak in ways that glorify God. Employers regularly tell us that the reason Jessup graduates are hired is that they know of their character and their competencies.


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