Vanguard University of Southern California - Centurion Yearbook (Costa Mesa, CA)

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Each college that is to deserve recognition as a qualified academic institution must project some particular scholastic image. An educational complex must attempt to be unique, appealing, or outstanding in a specific phase or purpose of its existence. Southern California College has attained unequaled stature among liberal arts colleges with the involvement of its faculty with the student. The faculty endeavored to preserve a vision of inducing the maturing student into the life and culture of modern society with strong Christian foundation and perspectives. Whether it was a teaching in Anthropology or a lecture in Church Administration, the professor was concerned; concerned that the student learn rather than memorize. He was concerned that the student, who with the simple axioms and truths from his class, would use the available facilities and literary -resources to expand his personal knowledge through research and study. But the most valuable learning experience of the SCC student did not come from the erudite emanations of the enlightened educators, but from the exemplary Christian character that these men displayed in their daily living. The dedication and determination of the Vanguard faculty established new visions of academic quality and spiritual leadership. ms ' M With the intellectual excellence and Christiaij love and service of its preceptors, SCC was able to produce something more than an average student. From the bonds of academic and theological restrictions, a candid and authentic student, with an inquiring mind and open heart, was freed to see the sin and sufferings of his needy world. Through this new freedom and love, the modern Christian scholar was given a key to his own new vision. 35