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Subject: PURPOSE STATEMENT

Amberton University is a specialized institution designed to meet specific educational needs of mature students.

Amberton University is committed to Christian values, both in its conduct of business and in its educational philosophy. The University's employees endorse and strive to live the ethical values and principles taught by the New Testament of the Bible. This commitment to Christian ethics enables the University to provide its students with a stability of values and a value system.

Amberton University combines relevant technical and cognitive training with techniques for problem solving in developing the student's capability to identify and select solutions to economic, social and personal problems. The academic skills and Christian values imparted by the University enable each student to better appreciate his own worth and to exercise insight into those patterns of facts and events which affect human relations and social values.

Amberton University will provide educational programs and services in those areas it is best qualified. When academically and financially feasible, the institution is committed to the continuous transformation of the educational process in direct response to the needs of the student and community.

Amberton University, in its endeavor to be a center for learning, a society in which all are students, will employ responsible experimentation and innovation. New as well as traditional techniques will be continuously identified, applied and evaluated in an effort to facilitate teaching and learning.

AMBERTON UNIVERSITY AFFIRMS

That there is a God and He is clearly revealed through the Bible;

That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is the example to be imitated;

That the educational process may not be divorced from the divine reality of God;

That spiritual commitment, tolerating no excuse for mediocrity, demands the highest standards of academic excellence;

That truth, having nothing to fear from investigation, must be pursued relentlessly;

That freedom, whether spiritual, intellectual, or economic, is indivisible;

That the student, as a person of immortal heritage, is the heart of the educational enterprise;

That knowledge calls, ultimately, for a life of service;

That into this specialized Christian institution, there shall never be admitted any religious test for admission or graduation; but, that all students hereof shall forever enjoy full, free, absolute and uninterrupted freedom of conscience.