Life Crisis
Have you experienced:
- A layoff from work?
- The death, separation or divorce of a spouse?
- The need to begin working?
Many students in the Degree Completion Program have recently experienced a life crisis that has catalyzed a need to complete their lifelong goal of an undergraduate degree. The WJU Degree Completion Program provides what you need to move forward:
- A program for working adults.
- A supportive cohort structure where everyone wants you to succeed and where prayer support will be experienced.
- Small learning groups.
- Not only supportive faculty members, but a Cohort Mentor who cares for you individually and serves as a regular consistent contact throughout the whole program with you.
Life Goal
Busyness family responsibilities, work, church, and community involvement often inhibit one's goal of completing a college degree. A sense of personal disappointment and/or a depreciation of personal self-worth further stand in the way of this goal and personal advancement. This program works to facilitate your completion of this life goal as it equips you with new skills and perspectives. The knowledge gained, the new skills developed and the enriching life changes serve to open new avenues for advancement, self-confidence and the satisfaction of significant achievement.
A quality college degree greatly enhances your earning potential. A Christian college degree will strengthen your faith and equip you to be more effective as a Christian in your vocation.
The discipline of engaging in a rigorous academic program will equip you to deal confidently with the busyness of everyday life while holding firm to your key values.
More Time?
Have you come to a time in your life when you have more time? Have the children gone off to school? Has your work provided you with a little more flex in you schedule? Now you can pursue your goal of completing your bachelor's degree. Many other students in the program have recently come to a time when re-entry into an adult degree completion program is possible.
The WJU program will provide you with an education that will benefit you for the rest of your life. You will learn new skills and perspectives that you can immediately apply. You will learn how to use your time both wisely and effectively to achieve your goals.
Promotion
Would you like to be in a leadership role? Would you like to develop both the knowledge base and skills to influence others effectively? Each of the WJU majors aims at improving your leadership potential. Courses that address leadership, critical thinking, management skills, communication skills, and Biblical perspectives all serve to provide bases for your promotion regardless of your vocation.
DCP alumni/ae have been experiencing promotions in a wide range of professions including: helping professions, police, fire departments, sales, service businesses, church and para-church vocations. A college degree helps!
We will help you complete your degree!
Faith in the Marketplace
Contemporary culture presents many daunting challenges to the unequipped believer. This program provides every student with both perspectives and tools to be effective as a Christian in the marketplace. Each major provides specific instruction about effective marketplace ministry.
Faculty members are not only equipped academically, they are practicing Christians in their professions in business, counseling and church-related ministries. They come with experience about how to integrate their faith with and in their work.
Whatever vocation you choose, the aim of WJU is to equip you to be an effective and obedient believer in that vocation.
Can I do it?
Many adults secretly fear going back to college. They say, It has been too long. I may not be able to remember everything. I am not sure I can keep up.
Experience and research has repeatedly shown that:
- Adults reason-think better
- Adults can link current learning to experience thus enhancing their learning.
- Adults know what is helpful to learn
- Adults are better motivated.
- Adults are ready to learn.
The number of adults in college and graduate schools continues to grow. Working adult learners are succeeding across not only the USA, but elsewhere in the world as well.
Yes, you can do it!
Graduate Studies
WJU is fully accredited by WASC (the Western Association of Schools and Colleges) Such accreditation provides the base for acceptance in graduate programs across the nation. Graduates enter programs in management, psychology, counseling, education and education on to a very wide range of other options.
The reading, writing, critical thinking and content base that is established in the Degree Completion Program will equip you will to succeed in a graduate program.
