$2000

ABU makes the times and transcript today!

This is not exciting news though. During the election campaign last year, the liberals promised to provide a one-time $2000 allowance to all NB students entering a NB university for the first time. This is exciting news initially until we find out that ABU is not among those qualified Universities. The word from the provincial government is that ABU is not a publicly funded university and only publicly funded university students are eligible for this program. This gives us in a big disadvantage in recruiting first year student.

The primary reason why I joined ABU is the calling to Christian Education. I believe there are two major objectives in this ministry. Firstly, ABU exists to train church leaders to support pastors. A significant portion of the student body is Christians and we want to equip them with professional knowledge in the Christian word view. Secondly, ABU exists to outreach the unsaved. As faculty members and students, we strife to spread the gospel and testify to our society. I believe it is important for us to engage ourselves more to the local communities beyond our churches. In the up-coming capital campaign (hopefully, the school of Business Administration capital campaign) will allow us to include a gallery or museum that can potentially be tourist attractions (not like the Baptist Heritage center) in order to extend the reputation of our university. How about a museum of Maritimes Business History?