PRESIDENT CAMPBELL GIVES OENING ADDRESS AT
CLAREMONT'S 2009 FALL CONVOCATION

Over 200 students, staff, faculty and members of the community were in attendance when President Jerry D. Campbell gave this year's opening address at the 2009 Fall Convocaion on Wednesday, Sept. 2.

The address, entitled "Crossing the Border," offered the community an update on the School's progress and recent sucesses.

In part, he said:

... Christians live in a complicated, multi-religious, conflict ridden world and ... educational isolation set apart from that world is inadequate preparation for spiritual leaders who will bear the responsibility to lead their peoples across chasms of difference in order for the world to find peace and harmony.

President Campbell, whose Ph.D. is in American Religious History, also put the Claremont University Project in historical context, which provided a pointed rebutal to those who may claim the School's transition runs counter to the development of Methodism.

The address is available in its entirety here.

President Campbell welcomes questions or comments through his personal blog, presidents-pen.blogspot.com.