College Profile:
Trinity International University

Statistics (Fall 2001) • Course System: Semester • Student/Faculty Ratio: 19:1 • Representation by Gender: 56.7% women; 43.2% men • Racial Diversity: 76.9% White; 11.9% African-American; 3.9% Hispanic; 3.1% Asian/Pacific Islander; 0.5% Alaskan/Native American; 3.1% Undeclared; 0.6% Nonresident Alien • Financial Aid: More than 90% of students receive financial aid. More than $8.0 million is distributed annually. The average financial aid package covers more than 70% of tuition, fees, room, and board. • Technology: Two IBM computer labs with color printers, laser printers, and scanners. One Macintosh computer lab connected with sound and music equipment, which gives students the capability to write, record, and save music. E-mail and Internet browsers are available to students. • Library Facilities: More than 233,000 bound volumes, 170,000 volumes on microfilm, and 2,000 current periodical subscriptions. Two major microfilm collections of English language works from the 15th, 16th, 17th centuries. Items from personal libraries of two outstanding evangelical scholars: Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, and the late Dr. Wilbur Smith.

Trinity International University is a family of four schools: Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Trinity Graduate School, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Trinity Law School.

Our Mission
Trinity's special mission is to do that which the great Western universities have ceased to do—provide excellence in academics as well as in preparation for ministry and professions—all within the context of a Christian worldview and a Christian community.

Trinity's calling is to glorify the Triune God as a learning community "entrusted with the gospel." The university serves the church by preparing students to fulfill their divine calling through the study of his Word and his world. Trinity is committed to the Christian vision that laid the foundations of the great Western universities: that all knowledge is unified in Jesus Christ, since it was through him that all things were made.

Trinity's schools, each with distinct educational missions, are united by their commitment to this vision for the Christian university:

A Christ-centered community. Jesus Christ is the center of our learning and our common life as we enable men and women to serve God in their families, the church, their respective callings, and their culture.

The authority of God's inherent Word, Holy Scripture. His Word is our final authority in all matters—his own nature, and the world he has made—and therefore the authority for all human understanding and inquiry.

Excellence in all things. Our teaching and scholarship, and all aspects of our community life, must bring honor to God by an excellence that we constantly assess to ensure its quality.

The development of the whole person. God has made us bodily creatures with the potential for physical and intellectual growth, for the growth of character, and for the development of our spiritual capacity—that we might know God in Jesus Christ.

Cultural engagement. We have been placed in a culture that has deep roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition, yet is seeking to reinvent itself in post-Christian terms. Trinity, as a university and in its training of students, is committed to engaging the culture and seeking to transform it for Jesus Christ.

International identity. We seek to reflect the worldwide purposes of God and the richness of his people drawn from "every tribe and tongue."

"Forming students to transform the world through Christ." At the heart of Trinity's mission lies its commitment to engage the culture for Jesus Christ. Trinity's purpose is to enable its graduates—in all schools and in every discipline—to think and live like Christians in the twenty-first century. We believe that God calls his people into many kinds of service; Trinity's calling is to prepare them to serve for his glory.

The College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences offers a full range of undergraduate majors, grouped together in eight "schools" (music; education; biblical & religious studies; human performance & wellness; language, literature & communication; science & technology; social science; and humanities). The college offers a special opportunity to juniors and seniors to take courses in the divinity school and graduate school. Special programs include Pre-Law, which is directed by the Christian Legal Society's nationwide director of law student ministries, and Pre-Med, which has a special relationship with The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity on campus and offers a unique bioethics minor.

Trinity's College of Arts and Sciences, as an academic community, commits itself to six distinctive objectives:

1. A reasoned belief in the Christ-centered focus of truth
2. A liberal arts approach to learning
3. A sustained interest in every participant
4. A purposeful involvement in contemporary society
5. A serious attempt to encourage career potential
6. A creative balancing of tensions inherent in the educational process