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.