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The Need
The Next Chapter isn’t about bricks and mortar. It isn’t about growing the College. It’s about enabling Regent College to fulfill its original mission to equip the whole people of God.
It’s about making needed adjustments so that Regent can continue to do well what it has always done well: facilitate a graduate, theological educational experience of the highest calibre within a spiritually transforming community.
To continue to achieve this goal, the College faces four specific needs:
REGENT STUDENTS NEED A LIBRARY THAT...
- upholds the academic integrity of the College;
- accommodates the printed resources needed at a top-quality graduate school. Built for a collection of approximately 100,000 volumes, our library is currently holding over 110,000 volumes and is expected to reach nearly 200,000 volumes in the next 20 years. Students and faculty cannot do without these valuable and necessary resources;
- provides places for students to study. Our present library has space for only 100 of the 700 students currently enrolled;
- appropriately houses our expanding collection of Puritan writings. Current space is at its capacity to hold this valuable collection.
See Campaign Details / New Library to learn how this
need will be met.
REGENT STUDENTS NEED CLASSROOMS THAT…
- accommodate the number of courses Regent needs to provide. The demand for classroom space completely overwhelms the capacity of the current Chapel, two classrooms and two seminar rooms. Each semester, approximately 15 classes need to be held off campus;
- provide a bright, well-ventilated environment that is conducive to learning;
- facilitate the appropriate use of learning technology.
See Campaign Details / New Classrooms and Student Service Areas to learn how this need will be met.
REGENT STUDENTS NEED A STUDENT
SERVICES AREA THAT…
- provides adequate administrative space to serve all aspects of students’ needs, from recruitment, admissions and registration to alumni relations and donor support;
- accommodates weekly community lunches during the academic year for as many as 350 people, and regular lunches during Spring and Summer Schools for up to 150. These and other catering functions currently struggle to manage in a kitchen that is 15' x 15' .
See Campaign Details / New Classrooms and Student Service Areas to learn how this need will be met.
REGENT STUDENTS NEED INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY THAT…
- enhances personal service rather than limits it. Our existing software will very soon no longer be supported by the manufacturer, and much of our computer hardware cannot keep up with the demands placed upon it by everyday programs;
- supports the reality of a learning and teaching environment of the twenty-first century. Students and faculty need internet access to research catalogues, databases and journals. The expanded library, classrooms, student service areas and updated information technology will serve our students better–and this is the whole purpose of the project.
See Campaign Details / Updated Information Technology to learn how this need will be met.
NEXT PAGE: The Response »
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"...At Regent we are blessed with a fine library....But the library has almost outgrown its present space, and must have more. This is perhaps the most urgent of the many needs that the expansion of Regent's building is designed to meet.
Dr. J.I. Packer
Click here to read the entire letter from J.I. Packer »
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