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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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