The College's
Mission & Objectives

Our Mission

As a Christian post-secondary institution, New Saint Andrews is committed to the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom in the light of the Holy Scriptures and under the sovereign authority of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our mission is to provide the highest quality undergraduate education in liberal arts and culture from a biblical worldview.

Our Objectives for Students

The College's primary objective for its students is to educate young Christian men and women broadly and deeply in the liberal arts from a distinctively Christian, Reformed perspective, to equip them for lives of faithful service to the Triune God and His kingdom, and to encourage the use of their gifts for the growth of Christian culture. The College expects its students to conduct themselves with all holiness and reverence in word, deed and attitude, to maintain sound doctrine, to nurture a reformational Christian culture, submitting to the Lordship of Christ and to His Word in all areas of life, and to practice and preserve the highest standards of academic integrity.

Our Objectives for the College Faculty

The College's primary objective for its faculty is to provide excellent classroom instruction that broadens and deepens student understanding of the liberal arts, to offer a godly example of spiritual maturity, intellectual rigor, wise judgment, and personal integrity, and to engage in scholarly inquiry and creative activities applicable to the classroom and beyond. The College expects its faculty to teach and to engage in scholarly inquiry and creative work from a Reformed perspective in their respective fields of expertise, submitting all to the lordship of Christ and His Word, to practice and preserve the highest standards of academic integrity, and to disseminate the fruit of their studies and creative work in appropriate scholarly and publicly accessible venues.

Our Objectives for the College Administration

The College's primary objective for its administration is to provide academic leadership for the faculty, students, and the College as a whole, and to nurture godly personal relationships characterized by mutual submission, respect, and honor with and between the faculty and students. The College expects its administration to encourage an academic culture more familial than institutional, more personal than bureaucratic, more reformational than conformist, and more biblically faithful than submissive to the dominant secular academic paradigms.

For a brief summary of the College's vision for the reformation of higher education from a classical and Christian approach, see the The New Saint Andrews College Vision page.

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