Issue: Fall 2010     An e-newsletter for parents of college-bound students

Welcome Fall 2010

Value of Adventist Christian Education

Welcome, Parents!

Fall officially ends December 20 and with it the main season of college entrance exams and early application deadlines. If you have a child who is a senior she may soon begin receiving scholarship and financial aid award letters and congratulatory admission notifications. Sometime within the next six to eight months a decision about which college she will attend must be made.

Celebrating Adventist Higher Education

Value of Adventist college or university education

John McVayThe Value of a Lifelong Investment

Interview with Dr. John McVay, AACU president

by Jacque L. Smith

Dr. John McVay, president of the Association of Adventist Colleges and Universities and president of Walla Walla University, remembers his first moments on a Seventh-day Adventist college campus. At the start of his college experience, he found his way into a huge gymnasium for registration. When he sat down in front of his academic advisor, his knees were knocking.

“I was scared to death,” said McVay. “Then the wonderful Christian gentleman looked from my paperwork and up into my eyes and said, ‘You know John, you can be anything you want to be.’ From that moment on there were people on that campus who looked into my eyes and said ‘You can be whatever God calls you to be. You can do it.’ They saw more in me than I saw in myself. For me that repeated experience from a variety of prayerful, wonderful people made a real difference in my life.”

And now more than 30 years later, as McVay explains in the interview below, this same transformational commitment to helping students find their God-inspired future still permeates Seventh-day Adventist higher education.

Alumni Success Stories

Adventst college and university alumni success stories

Besides helping students strengthen their faith and make life-long Christian friends, Adventist colleges and universities help prepare students for the future. Read stories of successful Adventist college graduates.