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WELCOME FROM THE DEAN OF STUDENT LIFE

Greetings!

Welcome to CIU for the 2015-16 school

year. If you are new to CIU, I want to offer

a very special welcome to you. If you are a

continuing student returning after a break,

welcome back! I hope you all will take some

time to read through the handbook, not just

to know “the rules,” but also to know why

we do what we do. As you know from your

study of the Bible, context is important.

Please read the opening pages carefully so

you get the context for all the information in

the handbook.

I pray that each of us has a year marked by

excellence. Obviously we all want to do well in our school work, it is the

main reason you are here. Study hard, apply yourself with due diligence,

and enjoy the people around you. Don’t get so deep in your books that

you have no time for the Lord or for His people. It would be a mistake for

you or me to get so caught up in academics or work that we do not take

time for God’s only eternal creation – people. I need help with the balance

between, work, study, family, and rest too! I’ll leave you to ponder these

verses from 1 Peter 4 (ESV):

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude

of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has

received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied

grace: whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves,

as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in every-

thing God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and

dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Rick Swift

Dean of Student Life

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