Asbury University

Asbury University, a Christian Liberal Arts University in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition, equips students, through academic excellence and spiritual vitality, for lifelong learning, leadership and service to the professions, society, the family and the Church, preparing them to engage their cultures and advance the cause of Christ around the world.

Do you want to make an impact? Then start here. We will encourage you to immerse yourself in a new culture, tackle those hard academic and faith questions, and stretch your boundaries as you discover God’s call for your life. As a community, we are committed to equipping you for a lifetime of learning, leadership and service. Academic excellence and spiritual vitality is not just our motto, it is our promise. If you want to make a difference, then start here and impact the world.

The Center for Academic Excellence exists to provide a supportive academic environment for students on Asbury University’s campus. Through peer tutoring and other resources and services, students are given support for particular classes, writing needs, or other academic concerns and are taught skills to become confident, independent learners.The Center for Academic Excellence has three divisions of services: the Writing Center, Tutoring Services, and Academic Accessibilty Resources. All of the services that are offered are provided free of charge to undergraduate and graduate students.

Academic excellence and spiritual vitality are the foundations upon which Asbury University has been built and continue to grow; they are embedded in our very mission statement and guide every goal and decision that is made at Asbury.

The Cornerstone Project was a natural outgrowth of our commitment to spiritual vitality. Because our Christian faith plays such an essential role in our identity as a liberal arts institution, we take our responsibility to assess student spiritual outcomes seriously. We are exceedingly aware of the extraordinary challenges, and indeed hubris, in attempting to assess such ethereal matters as spirituality; surely only God the Father, Son, and Spirit truly understand the heart and motives of a believer.

However, it is our responsibility as educators and followers of Christ to humbly attempt to assess the spiritual vitality of our students by the best available means possible. We fully realize that in so doing, it is only possible to capture a partial and incomplete understanding at best. Yet, we are, for many reasons, compelled to continue trying to assess the spiritual formation of our students.

As the world rapidly adopts communication technology, there will be an increasing need for people who understand other cultures and can fluently communicate across all borders and boundaries. This emphasis area prepares future communicators to understand the difficulties inherent in intercultural communication and to overcome those difficulties through wise communication practices. Many students select this emphasis area because they want to do international business, work in government or politics or wish to do ministry abroad to include being missionaries, serving with disaster relief organizations, or working in translation/linguistic career fields.

The Kinlaw Library in Wilmore was completed in 2001 and contains over 150,000 items in several collections of material.The Library is comprised of three floors, with most of the Library collections on the Main and Top floors. Computer classrooms are on the Lower floor. There are network connections at all of the study tables, carrels, and study rooms. Study space makes up the largest portion of the total 72,000 square feet in this building, including 18 study carrels, 10 group study rooms, 6 individual study rooms, 40 study tables, and more than 30 individual comfortable chairs provide over 250 places for everyone to choose from. We have added 6 individual high tech study pods on the main floor. There is now more casual seating space in the middle of the main floor.

The University seeks to expand students’ horizons outward to understand the history and value of other peoples and cultures, and prepares them for involvement in a complex and changing global reality. Through the Global Engagement Office, we seek to offer curricular and co-curricular opportunities that will challenge students to an increased cultural sensitivity and awareness as they develop cross-cultural competencies to effectively serve Christ in a global society.

We see a world today that is at once bigger and smaller as events and cultures we hardly knew existed just a few years ago are now downloaded into our pockets instantly. Diversity in language, culture, beliefs, and backgrounds are no longer a world away but many of times right outside of our doorsteps. Thus, we want to prepare our students for an increasingly diverse and globalized world. More importantly, we belong to a global church and we want to better reflect the reality of the Kingdom of God.

As the Global Engagement Office, our desire is for our students to reflect Christ-like empathy and humility as they engage different cultures and advance the cause of Christ around the world. Through studies, travels, and service in cultures other than their own, we want to encourage and provide students opportunities to work toward cultural engagement and a global perspective. Ultimately, we want to equip students to live and work faithfully and fruitfully no matter where God calls them to serve.