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anthemThe magazine of Ambrose University College FALL/WINTER 2010/11 Ambrose Residence A Place to Belong Inside 3 Learning the Craft of Teaching In the Ambrose Bachelor of Education program mentoring relationships between veteran and student teachers is the way learning is done “up on the hill”. 11 Learning in the Residence VP Student Life Wally Rude sees residence life as a significant factor in the creation of a positive campus culture and in the development of students. 13 Space to Grow Construction has started on the new Residence & Education Centre. This new building will give Ambrose capacity for the 1000 plus students expected on campus by 2014. 23 Dr Barry Moore on Campus Evangelist Dr Barry Moore spoke to students during the recent Spiritual Emphasis days. Dr Moore’s visit to Ambrose was part of his cross- Canada tour celebrating 50 years of ministry. 2 Editorial 5 Profiles 8 Lions Athletics 18 Educational Travel 22 Anthem Extras 24 Family Ties 29 Final Word Residence is an experience that creates the kind of deep friendships between students that last a lifetime. Residence truly helps make Ambrose a place to belong. Fall/Winter 2010/11 anthem 1 anthem The magazine of Ambrose University College A Place to Belong Fall/Winter 2010/11 PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE EDITOR Howard Wilson Belonging is more than being together, CHANCELLOR AND ACTING VP it is also about our identity. So what EXTERNAL RELATIONS identifies an Ambrose student today? Here Riley Coulter DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT are some clues. AND EDITOR I recently heard a student mention Kim Follis with pride that when she was hired by a DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING nearby retail store she was told that she Wes Campbell Kim Follis was one of several Ambrose students who EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AND Editor are employed there. It turns out that having ASSISTANT EDITOR Elly Wick Ambrose University College on your ALUMNI COORDINATOR o much of the Ambrose student resume puts you at the top of their list. Sharon Ralph Sexperience is rooted in belonging. In The Ambrose gym, or Lions’ Den as ADVISOR Tim Heath Canadian Nazarene College (CNC) days it is known, is notable around the Alberta COPY EDITOR it was belonging to one of the student Colleges Athletic League as a loud but Kathryn Olson societies – Beta, Delta or Sigma. Who from positive place to play. Referees like DESIGNER those days can forget the society sports officiating our games because of the energy George Toth LAYOUT that pitted roommate against roommate in created during a Lions “blackout.” Verge Design the gym and on ice and field? At Canadian Last winter a woman let us know that PHOTOGRAPHY Bible College (CBC) belonging was about two Ambrose students stopped and helped Erich Wong Daniel Yu living in residence halls with names her when she had car trouble. Ambrose PRINTER like Skitch and Brooks with their floor students volunteer in the community and Rhino Pronto meetings and ring ceremonies. local churches. Ambrose University College For those who attended during the To alumni from the past these examples 150 Ambrose Circle SW, Calgary, AB T3H 0L5 awkward first years of the AUC/NUC of Ambrose student identity likely sound General Inquiries 403.410.2000 partnership, belonging was a question familiar. They are part of the ongoing story Enrolment 800.461.1222 Website www.ambrose.edu of whether you were AUC or NUC. In stretching back to Red Deer, Regina and Publication Agreement Number 40063422 the residence, floors in the downtown Winnipeg that define us as students and Anthem is published two times per year by the External apartment building were named for faculty alumni of Ambrose University College. Relations Department at Ambrose University College and sent to alumni, friends, and stakeholders. members like Alex Sanderson and Gerry Now all we need is a game against Ambrose is a Christian university college accredited by Hall giving us Sanderson Hall and, aptly, old CBC Saskatchewan basketball rival the Campus Alberta Quality Council, the Association for Biblical Higher Education and the Association Gerry Hall. Briercrest College or CNC’s hockey of Theological Schools. Ambrose is the official At Ambrose today societies are back, nemesis, now known as Canadian denominational school of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada and The Church of the Nazarene but they have names like the League Mennonite University in Winnipeg, to Canada. It serves over 650 students representing many denominations in arts & science, education, undergraduate of Aspiring Biologists (LABS) and the really bring our identity full circle. ministry and seminary programs. Donate to Ambrose at Ambrose Business Society (ABS). The In many ways we are still discovering www.ambrose.edu/donate/online. inevitable rivalry gave rise to the recent our belonging as students, alumni, friends, ABS versus LABS bowling challenge. faculty and staff of Ambrose. This edition Residence remains a significant of Anthem celebrates Ambrose residence place to find a sense of belonging. Floor as a place to belong as we launch the and prayer meetings, late-night study construction of the new Residence & marathons and that dash across the Education Centre. Commons to the Academic Centre in a T-shirt in January are experiences that bond students together. Fall/Winter 2010/11 anthem 2 ACADEMIC news to veteran educators in the city. We call this proposal the Mentorship Program. We believe that merely delivering good lectures in class is not good enough. So, we approached veteran practicing teachers to join the B.Ed. team in mentoring our students into becoming professional educators. The response was great. Seventeen veteran teacher mentors joined the first cohort of B.Ed. students at Ambrose on October 25, to launch our Mentorship Program. The classroom was too small to hold the enthusiasm of the two generations of educators sharing their dreams and planning the future of teaching in our province. This will be a program The first cohort of Education students with the Education faculty on orientation day. Next year the Education that will bring the mentors and their program will use classrooms and offices in the Residence & Education Centre now under construction. protégés together once a month to discuss different issues in education. Some of the topics proposed in the first meeting were: Making a Difference building teams of professional educators, creating a welcoming school environment One Student at a Time for students and parents, developing teaching resources, writing Individual Adriana Fishta-Bejko or even school affiliation. Neither will Program Plans for students with learning Associate Professor of Education competence and standards – although disabilities, etc. The Mentorship Program essential – suffice in times such as these, in an in-service B.Ed. program is a unique young boy was walking along the when education is vital to teaching ALL Ambrose initiative. Abeach where hundreds of starfish the children and considering them as This initiative is part of a very had washed ashore. He started to pick up “image bearers of the Lord,” who have innovative teacher training program that the starfish one at a time and hurled them special needs as individuals. Ambrose is offering as an after degree, back into the ocean. A man passing by said Ambrose University College – a small professional program. We know that our to the boy: “There are too many starfish Christian institution “up on the hill.” This program is in its early stages of creating its washed onto the beach. Don’t you see that is not a mere description of the location of identity. We are aware that our graduates you are not going to make any difference our campus. We consider our institution may not be in the hundreds. However, by doing this?” The boy looked down at as the school where “the eyes of all people we believe in the starfish story and we the starfish in his hand and said: “It makes are upon us” for we are setting out upon a plan to make a difference in the lives of a difference to this one.” Then he threw the voyage that will make a difference not only the children, one at a time. In our minds, starfish back into the ocean. on Ambrose students’ lives but on the lives being “up on the hill” is not just a nice, That is the vision we have in the new of the people they will serve and support. proud campus built on rocks stronger B.Ed. (after degree) program at Ambrose We have committed ourselves to the task than oceans, wind-swept, looking at the University College. We are going to make of educating a new generation of teachers Rockies, God-blessed, and teeming with a difference in our students’ lives and who not only know the philosophies of people of all kinds living in harmony and prepare them to make a difference in education but also the “craft of teaching.” peace, a campus with beautiful classrooms their students’ lives, one student at a time. To this end, the group of educators who that hum with students and creativity, with History will not judge our endeavours developed the B.Ed. program envisioned a doors that are open to anyone with the will merely on the basis of colour or creed special way to connect our student teachers and the heart to get here. Being “up on the Fall/Winter 2010/11 anthem 3 hill” is more than that – Matthew 5 gives Ambrose will help upgrade the IBT for identifying the minimal educational us those expectations when in verses 13-16 faculty by sending one faculty member standards for ordination on the Canadian it says: “You are the salt of the earth, but per year to teach theological courses in region and develops procedures for if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be Vietnam.