Campus Life

Regent College is strategically situated at the entrance to the campus of the University of British Columbia, on the far west side of the city of Vancouver. The College is housed in a three-level building on the corner of University Boulevard and Wesbrook Mall. The design of the building and grounds carefully integrates various symbols of spiritual life—light, water and garden—with the practical needs of space and shelter. The main level holds the chapel/auditorium, a large classroom, student lounge, kitchen, prayer chapel, administrative offices, Regent Bookstore, courtyard and atrium. The upper level consists of faculty and administration offices, a classroom, staff lounge and the Lookout Art Gallery. The bottom level holds five classrooms, the RCSA office, administrative offices and the John Richard Allison Library

The College offices are open from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday. Faculty office hours vary and are posted on their office doors.

THE LOOKOUT GALLERY

Established in 1990, The Lookout Gallery has shown paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, calligraphy, etc. There have been solo and group exhibitions, showing artists from as close as Vancouver and as far as Australia and Russia. Each year we have a community exhibition with work from students, faculty, staff and spouses. Many Christianity and the Arts students show final projects in the gallery. Click here to visit the Lookout Gallery section.

AFFILIATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (UBC)

UBC first opened as a degree-granting institution in 1915 and is now the third-largest university in Canada. Its beautifully situated 990-acre campus overlooks Burrard Inlet and commands a magnificent view of the Coast Mountain Range. UBC comprises twelve faculties and over 100 different departments, schools and research institutes serving over 40,000 students.

Regent College was granted formal affiliation with the University in 1973, having met the criteria for affiliation established by the UBC Senate. This, however, does not imply any scrutiny or need for approval for any of the Regent College curriculum by UBC. Other theological colleges affiliated with the University are Carey Theological College, St. Mark’s College and Vancouver School of Theology.

THE JOHN RICHARD ALLISON LIBRARY

The John Richard Allison Library (formerly The Regent Carey Library) houses the joint collections of Regent College and Carey Theological College in a brand new, state-of-the-art library facility at Regent.

It is the mission of the Allison Library to collect, organize and make available information in all formats supporting the study of Christian theology and related topics; to support the research interests of the faculty; to provide access to information resources outside the Library through cooperative agreements, interlibrary loan and digital resource sharing; to provide efficient and appropriate user services; and to participate in and advance the broader world of theological librarianship.

While relatively young, the Library collection supports graduate-level research. The library houses a heavily used print collection with subject emphases in Early Christianity (particularly the Church Fathers), Doctrinal, Ecclesiastical and Pastoral Theology, and the Christian Life. Other subject streams that are well represented are the Bible generally, the Old and New Testaments specifically, Church History and select Interdisciplinary studies. The collection is primarily English-based.

The Library is home to several special collections, including the Houston Packer Collection—a growing collection of early printed works related to Puritan theology; the Heaven collection—a collection of works pertaining to Anglican theology primarily from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; a significant collection of rare, ninteenth-century pamphlets amassed by Anglican Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, the third son of evangelical politician William Wilberforce; a complete collection of books and most articles by Christian thinker/philosopher Jacques Ellul, as well as relevant supporting materials; and the John Conway collection—a collection consisting of materials related to the study of Jewish-Christian relations and the struggle of the Christian church under Nazism.

The collection consists of approximately 114,300 monographs, as well as a significant number of microforms and multimedia. The Library subscribes to 380 journal titles and key electronic databases. Professional librarians are available to help patrons access the array of information resources; they provide individual reference help and periodic research seminars each term. For additional information on the Library's collections, services, policies and hours of operation, please refer to the Library's website, http://allisonlibrary.regent-college.edu.

THEOLOGICAL RESOURCES ON CAMPUS

One of the distinct advantages of studying at Regent is the opportunity to make use of the various library collections on campus. The Allison Library cooperates with the libraries of the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver School of Theology (VST), and St. Mark's College. Regent students who have paid student fees through the RCSA have access to the UBC Library—the second largest research library in Canada. The UBC Library's collections are large and diverse and housed in several library facilities on campus. These library facilities house excellent resources for students with theological interests that intersect with disciplines such as business, education, fine arts, music, science, humanities and the social sciences. Of special note are the wide-ranging electronic databases accessed through the UBC Library.

Regent students also enjoy access to the other theological libraries on campus. The Allison Library and VST's H.R. MacMillan Library share a common catalogue (see http://library.regent-college.edu). VST's collection is particularly strong in mainline protestant theology with denominational holdings that reflect the Anglican, Presbyterian and United Churches of Canada. Also, St. Mark's Micallef Memorial Library, a Catholic library, specializes in Philosophy, Scripture, Patristics, Theology, Spirituality, Lives of Saints, Church History and other areas. While the Allison Library maintains cooperative agreements with both these libraries as well as the Alloway Library at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C., each require a separate library card, and library policies amongst these libraries vary significantly.