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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, FEBRUARY 25, 1983
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Then on the following day, Sunday, February 20th, Mr. Les McCullough and I
were able to discuss with Mr. Armstrong various points regarding the two
campuses. (Mr. and Mrs. McCullough decided to remain in Pasadena for a few
days after attending the Ministerial Refreshing Program so Mr. McCullough
and I could see Mr. Armstrong together.) Our major question concerned just
how many of the Associate of Arts graduates from Big Sandy's two-year pro
gram did Mr. Armstrong want us to accept to complete the last two years of
the four-year Bachelor of Arts program at Pasadena. With our limit of 500
on-campus students at Pasadena, we will not be able to accept very many of
the Big Sandy students for the 1983-84 college year.
During our discussion of the problem, God put the best solution into Mr.
Armstrong's mind.
Mr. Armstrong made the decision that, beginning with
this fall's freshmen class, we will only accept students for a two-year
Associate of Arts program--both at Pasadena and Big Sandy. Then, when they
complete their two-year A.A. program, we will reevaluate all of the stu
dents {both at Pasadena and Big Sandy), in order to determine which ones are
the best qualified to be admitted into the Bachelor of Arts program at
Pasadena for another two full years. This means that the Big Sandy students
will have the same chance to qualify for the junior and senior years of the
four-year Bachelor of Arts program in Pasadena as will the students here on
this campus.
We believe that this change will inspire all of the students to be even more
diligent, and try even harder to qualify to go on to complete the four-year
B.A. program at Pasadena. (Of course, the new policy do�s
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affect stu
dents currently enrolled in the four-year program at Pasadena, but will
apply to those enrolling this fall.)
Mr. Armstrong also stressed the importance of not choosing students for the
B.A. program solely on the basis of their academic scores, but also taking
into account such important factors as character, personality, leadership,
zeal, motivation, etc. We will admit into the Bachelor of Arts degree
program at Pasadena only those students who show the most overall potential
to be used in the Work, stressed Mr. Armstrong.
We are now in the process of checking to see just what Ambassador College at
Pasadena will have to do in order to be able to offer an Associate of Arts
degree at the end of two years.
Dr. William Stenger, Dr. Don Ward and
others are working on this with me, and when we have gathered more of the
facts we will present our findings to Mr. Armstrong for his decision. Pre
sently, we do not anticipate any difficulty in our having to make some
fairly minor alterations in the curriculum in order to make the A.A. degree
possible.
(Fortunately Dr. Ward, who has been chiefly responsible for
working out the details of Big Sandy's A.A. program with the Texas educa
tion authorities, is now at the Pasadena campus where he has been teaching
since last fall.)
We have already sent out about 1,800 application forms, and have now re
ceived over 700 completed forms at Pasadena. Again, we have far more want
ing to enter A.C. than we can accept.
--Raymond F. McNair, Deputy Chancellor