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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, AUGUST 19, 1983
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ings with the various student leaders for the coming year. We clearly out
line what their duties and responsibilities will be. Just this afternoon,
I gave the student leaders a lecture on the "Important Aspects of Leader
ship"--trying to encourage and inspire them to serve diligently in their
student leadership positions. One of the points which I stressed--one of
the most important aspects of true leadership--is found in II Samuel 23:3:
" I_ie that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God." We con
tinually stress the importance of being a servant, not one to"lord it over"
those under one's charge.
Next week will be "Orientation Week." The Ambassador campus will soon be
come a beehive of activity--with students registering, paying their bills,
seeking out employment, etc.
By the way, we continue to receive good reports from the ten students and
three non-students we sent to spend seven weeks in the People's Republic of
China. They plan to return to Pasadena on the day classes begin, Monday,
August 29th. I am sure they will have some very interesting experiences to
relate to us when they return.
The Value of an A.C. Education
I think all of us know that the real value of an A.C. education can't be
measured in dollars and cents, but is to be judged by the measure of per
sonality and character development, along with the development of the in
tellect.
However, as we have reported in past issues of the PASTOR
GENERAL'S REPORT [ Sept. 25, 1981; Dec. 25, 1981 J, A.C. graduates, in fact,
do substantially better financially on the average than do the graduates or
America's 3,000 other institutions of higher learning.
Recently, I got to considering that in our alumni income survey our grad
uates were compared with older graduates of other colleges. Comparatively
speaking, A.C. graduates have not yet attained their optimum earning power.
This factor, when properly taken into account, means that our graduates do
even better financially than we had previously supposed.
In discussing this point with Dr. David Albert (Acting Director of Admis
sions and faculty member at Pasadena), we concluded that we ought to again
look at the results of the survey we conducted not long ago, in order to
make certain readjustments for the above reasons. The following comments,
from Dr. Albert's August 16th memo to me, will further explain this matter:
Graduate Income Average By Age
As you properly observed yesterday in our conversation, we did
report our alumni income averages in the most conservative
manner, especially in not figuring in the age factor. Because of
the relatively short existence of Ambassador College compared to
American colleges and universities as a whole, and the fact that
early graduating classes of Ambassador College were quite small
compared to larger more recent classes, the average age of our
1,500 respondents is only 32 years old. We simply do not have a
lot of people in the peak earning years of 45-60.
In our comparisons, I used the overall Census
average for all persons regardless of age for
Bureau income
four years of