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Business Administration Division

Mission Statement

The mission of the Business Administration Division is to provide young adults with a superior business and liberal arts education that prepares them for lives of ethical service and professional achievement in a competitive world. We seek to accomplish our mission through:

How we teach

  • By offering innovative, challenging, and academically excellent courses.
  • By fostering active learning with a focus on experiential learning, especially service learning.
  • By emphasizing the critical-analytical process with a focus on problem anticipation and prevention, recognition, and solution.

What we teach

  • By offering a Christian perspective on business management and leadership.
  • By championing the concept of the leader who serves.
  • By emphasizing not only the content but also the process and ethics of business.
  • By teaching the interrelatedness of persons, disciplines, and nations.
  • By providing foundation skills that can be used throughout one's life of continuous learning.

Our relationships with our students

  • By serving as positive role models to our students, striving to reflect Christian values in our own behavior.
  • By providing sound advice and counsel concerning curricula, careers, and life.
  • By treating students with respect, being open to constructive feedback.
  • By seeking to model lifelong learning, thus inspiring their intellectual curiosity.

Our personal and professional development

  • By being actively engaged in our faith community.
  • By active involvement in the campus community through service to the Seaver community.
  • By active participation in the professional community through research, scholarly papers, publications, and service.
  • By active service in our communities in which we live.
  • By modeling effective stewardship of our time, talents, and resources in service to God, family, and others.

Our relationship with our colleagues

  • By significantly collaborating in our teaching and research, building on our diversity and our various strengths.
  • By honestly and openly communicating loving and constructive feedback in order to foster growth and personal development.
  • By humbly recognizing our own weaknesses and striving for continuous growth.
  • By building each other up and developing a closeness that allows us to play together and to pray together.

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