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The Caribbean Union College is a private, co-educational institution with a diverse student body. It is operated by the Caribbean Union Conference of Seventh-Day Adventist which consists of the following territories: Barbados, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, the British and US Virgin Islands, and the Windward and Leeward Islands, excluding the French Dependencies.

Two years after its founding, the name was changed to Caribbean Training College. In 1945, the college developed a well-defined college preparatory instructional program. In 1947, Caribbean Training College was officially declared a junior college. As a junior college, it offered two-year post-secondary courses in Theology, Teacher Training, Business and Secretarial Science. The second name change of the institution took place in 1956 when Caribbean Training College became Caribbean Union College.

In September 1970, an important academic extension was instituted at Caribbean Union College. The two-year junior college course in Theology was extended to a four-year course leading to the Bachelor of Theology degree. Other changes followed including the conferring of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Business Administration, and Associate degrees in a wide range of Major fields of study in affiliation with Andrews University, Michigan, USA, since 1995.

Mission

The mission of Caribbean Union College is to develop the whole person - mental, physical, social, spiritual, emotional and vocational; to provide trained personnel for the church and its institutions, as well as the wider community; and to enable the student to continue his/her education at other institutions of higher learning.

Philosophy

Caribbean Union College espouses the philosophy of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church which states that true education is the harmonious development of the head, the heart, and the hand.

Excellence in teaching and scholarship, research activities, educational innovations, and dedication to the principles of Christian education rank high within the value system of the college.

The college views truth as coming from God, an expression of the nature of God, and it views the Bible as a divine frame of reference which encompasses all truth.

The college takes the position that the integration of faith with learning and culture is central to the social, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, physical, and vocational development of students.

Caribbean Union College supports the concept of equal educational opportunities without regard to race, sex, religion, ethnicity or nationality.

Objectives

Emanating from its mission and philosophy, Caribbean Union College has generated a series of well-formed objectives to guide the education of its aspiring students.

• To develop and maintain a spiritual, academic, social and physical environment in which competent workers are trained for service to God and humanity.

• To provide an instructional program which leads students to accept God as the source of all truth, and the Bible as an expression of His divine plan of salvation.

• To challenge students to enlarge their world view as they integrate religion, culture and scholarship into their college experience.

• To prepare students to deal with the complex problems and issues of contemporary society.

• To encourage the development of advanced knowledge and skills which are necessary for professional growth.

 

Compiled by TLIU from data from CUC April 1998