What are some of the challenges facing NCU at the moment?
HT: Since we’ve become a university, so many people are coming to us that the Adventist/non-Adventist ratio has become tilted. That’s one challenge. But the approach we take to education is that it’s a branch of evangelism. Our assemblies and other religious programs give us a chance to witness. So we’re not driving people away simply because they’re not members of our faith. Then there is the resource challenge. When you move as fast as we have, you run the risk of outdoing yourself, and we never want to do that. We want to make certain we have adequate staff, adequate lecture halls, laboratories, computers, and other basic equipment. As I reported to the [university] board yesterday, we’re almost at the point now where we can’t take any more students at the undergraduate level. So you’d have to turn students away? HT: Yes, yes. Another challenge we face is housing. We have the capacity to house 700, that’s all. Seven hundred! And see, we have almost 3,700 students! We have almost 2,0
