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Dr. Randall T. Ruble |
A strong academic reputation has always been an identifying mark of Erskine College, the oldest four-year church-related college in South Carolina. Erskine has produced leaders in nearly every area of endeavor. Almost all of our graduates who apply for medical or law school are admitted, and Erskine students are also successful in entering Ph.D. programs.
We are a Christian institution and that means we take seriously the faith-learning enterprise. Our job is not simply to transfer knowledge but to shape character and values and to help students understand the world in which they live. Our challenge is to preserve and pass on the Christian tradition while encouraging honest intellectual curiosity.
Erskine’s 90-acre campus in Due West, South Carolina, offers our students an idyllic setting for college life. Recently, Erskine invested more than $12 million on upgrading residence halls and addressing deferred maintenance. The campus is beautiful. A new music and math complex is currently under construction and should be completed early in 2008. Students fill the campus with youthful enthusiasm and take seriously their academic pursuits.
One outstanding characteristic of campus life at Erskine is the interest faculty and staff members take in the lives of our students. When a student has a need, help is available. Our professors serve as mentors for students outside the classroom and sometimes invite them into their homes for a meal.
The presence of Erskine Theological Seminary on our campus provides opportunities for friendship as well as academic and spiritual enrichment. Interested college students can benefit from shared seminary lecture series and other events.
We at Erskine are concerned about students’ social and intellectual development, but we also care about shaping their character. On our campus, students can be honest and open with each other. It is a place where strong human values are developed. As a Christian liberal arts college, we help students integrate faith and learning in ways that are wholesome and productive for living in society.
At my inauguration, I cited a portion of Proverbs 29:18 — “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Our vision at Erskine is centered on the reason for our existence: to equip for service the students God sends us. The college’s Latin motto, “Scientia cum moribus conjuncta,” can be translated “Knowledge joined with morals” or “Knowledge joined with a way of life.” Just as faith and learning are linked at Erskine, the knowledge gained here is lived out in the world. Thank you for your interest in Erskine College and visiting us online.
Cordially,
Randall T. Ruble, Ph.D.
President
ruble@erskine.edu
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