2008 Woodie Awards
Graduate program up and running
Issue date: 3/1/06 Section: News
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The North Greenville graduate program is rapidly growing and progressing as it moves through its first year as a functioning institution.
"We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students," said Chuck Morton, director of special projects.
The graduate program, which is housed in Fairview Baptist Church, around 15 minutes drive from the North Greenville University campus, now only offers a masters degree in Christian ministry, but a masters degree for business administration is now in the works.
"They [the students] are registered in five courses. We have three courses on Monday. The first one is an ethics course with Dr. Isgett. The second is a pastoral care course with Dr. Vaughn, he's the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Berea, and he teaches for us as an adjunct. I teach the class in the evening, which starts at five o'clock. It's called Spiritual Formation and each one of these classes have 20 to 25 people," said Morton.
"I had actually visited North Greenville with a friend of mine who was looking to do her bachelor's work there and I was really impressed with it then and the accreditation came up at the same time. It was perfect opportunity to take advantage of it," said Chad Wentzky, a graduate student. Wentzky completed his undergraduate work at Anderson College in Christian studies.
"We have classes on Tuesday and Thursday. They are general in nature so we can include people who have signed up for the business program, even though we don't have a business program yet, there are some people who wanted to get a jump on the program. We have one course on Tuesday night, which is a leadership course and one course on Thursday night, which is an Issues in Professional Ethics course. And we have about 25 in each one of those courses, as well," said Morton.
"Most graduate courses [at new graduate programs] start off with about 10 to 15 students in them each and we just have plenty of students who want to take graduate courses through North Greenville," said Morton.