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, large and small classrooms, 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. At the end of 2005 construction started on a bigger and better Regent-Carey Library which will be housed under the Regent Park to the north of the existing building.

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 at the beginning of each term.

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. The annual Regent community exhibition presents work from students, faculty, staff and spouses. Many Arts Thesis Project students show their 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 REGENT-CAREY LIBRARY & NEIGHBOURING LIBRARIES ON THE UBC CAMPUS

The Regent-Carey library is jointly owned by Regent College and Carey Theological College, a neighbouring graduate theological school offering both graduate and continuing education programs through the Baptist Union of Western Canada. It is the mission of the 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. Its strengths include biblical studies; English language biblical commentaries; Plymouth Brethren history and theology; Puritan and Reformed history and theology; Mennonite and Anabaptist history and theology; evangelical missions; and the history of Canadian evangelicalism. In recent years, in response to new curriculum developments at both Regent and Carey, the Library has begun to collect more extensively in the areas of Christian spirituality; Anglican studies; Practical theology; Christian laity; ethics and moral development; Baptist history and theology; and Chinese theological works.

The Regent-Carey Library houses one of the largest theological collections in Western Canada. The collection consists of approximately 187,000 items (including books, serials, microforms, video tapes, CD-ROMs, DVDs and audio tapes). The Library subscribes to more than 380 journal titles and a handful of subject-specific electronic databases. Professional librarians are available to help patrons access the array of available resources. For additional information on the Library's collections, policies and hours of operation, please see the Library's website.

The Regent-Carey Library cooperates at various levels and for various services with the neighbouring libraries of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver School of Theology and St. Mark's College. Regent students who have paid student fees through the Regent College Student Association have full access to the University of British Columbia Library—the second largest research library in Canada. The UBC Library's collections are large and diverse and housed in several libraries on campus. These libraries are an excellent resource for students with theological interests that intersect with other disciplines including business, education, the fine arts, humanitites and the social sciences, music and science. Of special note are the wide-ranging electronic databases that access to this academic library affords.

Given that the Regent-Carey Library and the Vancouver School of Theology's H.R. MacMillan Library share a common web-based catalogue, and the holdings for both libraries display by default, Regent students will naturally explore VST's theological library collection further. This collection is particularly strong in mainline protestant theology with denominational holdings reflecting Anglican, Presbyterian and United Church traditions in Canada. In addition, neighbouring St. Mark's College Library houses a small Catholic collection and provides a quiet, reflective study space.

One compelling feature of studying at Regent College is having access to such a rich array of scholarly resources on campus. Another is Regent's commitment to providing a quiet, aesthetically pleasing study space for the community. To that end, the College has recently embarked on a building project to create a new, more spacious Library facility. It will house the Library's growing print collections and electronic databases and provide for an increase in and variety of seating for individual and group study. In addition, space has been set aside for a dedicated computer lab, as well as for rare books and archival materials.