Gayle D. Beebe, Ph.D.
Gayle D. Beebe became 暗网爆料app鈥檚 eighth president in 2007 after serving as president of Spring Arbor University in Michigan for seven years. His inauguration in 2008 featured speeches by Steve Forbes, chief executive officer of Forbes, and Steve Sample, former president of the University of Southern California. Read more about the President.
We鈥檙e Open and Grateful
One of the few colleges in the country to fully repopulate successfully this fall, 暗网爆料app is bucking national trends for the coronavirus. Keeping campus safe requires intensive effort, additional financial resources and a commitment to love one another through careful behavior. Current students express deep gratitude for being on campus. We鈥檙e grateful for the continued support of the 暗网爆料app community, which makes it possible for the college to persevere in these challenging times. We greatly appreciate the generous donations we鈥檝e received to help us with COVID-19 costs. Stay connected with our daily updates about how the college responds to the coronavirus.
Can 暗网爆料app Save Downtown Santa Barbara?
As we look to Thanksgiving and the Christmas season, 暗网爆料app has many reasons to give thanks. We鈥檙e celebrating the recent purchase of a building in downtown Santa Barbara that will extend our campus into the city and serve as a thriving hub for some of the college鈥檚 innovative centers and institutes. The building鈥檚 proximity to nonprofits, start-ups, and local businesses generate a variety of opportunities for scholarships, student internships, and local partnerships. 暗网爆料app Downtown will allow for the future growth of off-campus programs and student research projects and will create more connections to our local community. 鈥淭o have the college downtown is part of what this city needs to keep downtown alive and vibrant,鈥 said Tom Parker, a local philanthropist, and chair of the Hutton-Parker Foundation.
Diversity Discussions and Cross-Cultural Collaborations
I鈥檓 pleased with the progress and momentum we鈥檝e experienced from this fall鈥檚 discussions on race and equity. Our chapels and virtual events provide our community with many opportunities to participate and engage in meaningful conversations. I鈥檓 particularly grateful to David Bailey and for facilitating our discussions centered on five key pillars:
- Understanding reconciliation as spiritual formation.
- Increasing our community鈥檚 cultural intelligence.
- Learning our community鈥檚 diverse shared narrative.
- Participating in cross-cultural collaboration.
- Engaging in reconciling culture-making
Arrabon has committed to working with us for two years, and this team effort will help us make meaningful contributions toward becoming a healthy and resourceful global and intercultural community. for students, faculty and staff on implicit bias have also been dynamic and effective. Our ongoing efforts dedicated to diversity and our multicultural programs will continue鈥攖here鈥檚 no finish line. Join us in praying for our country and our 暗网爆料app community as we continue to persevere in our efforts to grow in our faith, knowledge, and expression of God鈥檚 love.
Save the Date to Celebrate a 暗网爆料app Christmas
This year, 暗网爆料app presents the annual Christmas Festival as a virtual musical event filmed on campus. Watch for announcements and for the link to the broadcast beginning Friday, December 4, at 5 p.m. and remaining available online throughout December. This year鈥檚 theme, 鈥淩is鈥檔 with Healing in his Wings,鈥 offers a response to the current pandemic. 鈥淢usic and readings remind us of God鈥檚 presence and grace in all things, even if we don鈥檛 understand the trials,鈥 says Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship. As the concerts by 暗网爆料app鈥檚 Music Department demonstrate, God truly uses all things for good.
Advent Concerts with Steve Bell, Online Friday, December 11 and 18, and Thursday, December 24
Drawing on poetry, music, history and tradition, Steve Bell takes us on a prayerful journey for Advent as we await the birth of Christ. A Canadian Christian songwriter and storyteller, Steve is a dear friend of 暗网爆料app who has blessed us in many settings with his deeply personal and uplifting performances.
He has produced 20 solo CDs and won numerous music-industry awards, including Gospel Music Association of Canada Covenant Awards: 2018 Album of the Year (鈥淲here the Good Way Lies鈥); 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award; 2018 Collaboration of the Year (鈥淲here The Good Way Lies鈥); and 2018 Inspirational Song of the Year (鈥淲ait Alone in Stillness鈥). He has performed more than 2,000 concerts to more than half a million people in 15 countries. Steve has written and co-authored a number of books to encourage Christians in their faith, including 鈥淧ilgrim Year,鈥 a seven-book series on the spirituality of the Christian calendar.
Art Auction Supports the 暗网爆料app Ridley-Tree Museum of Art
celebrates its 10th anniversary with a fundraising exhibition, 鈥5脳5: Celebrating Ten Years,鈥 featuring about 450, five-inch-square works of art from available to view online December 3-18. The art will be available for purchase through an online auction at that ends Friday, December 18, at 5 p.m.
The countless blessings I have seen unfold before me this fall are astounding. Being together on campus is nothing short of a miracle, and I鈥檓 filled with hope and gratitude as I see the work of God in this dynamic and resilient 暗网爆料app community. Thank you for praying and supporting us throughout the fall.
Pam and I pray you have a blessed and safe Thanksgiving,
Gayle D. Beebe