Vanguard, my vanguard

I love my alma mater. I learned and grew so much there. Those were precious years. My dream is to one day return as a faculty member to re-introduce a special education program.

I talked with Prof. Rybarczyk (seen above) at a wedding on Sunday and it was like writing on the wall. Everyone on staff, faculty, boards, and administration have been under considerable stress and pressure lately. This week the thought entered my mind, what if there was no Vanguard to return to?

Quite an over-exaggeration, but financial woes are scary. Vanguard has been important to my family for 3 generations, without it I would not be here.... My parents met there....

Hard times are ahead as house-keeping is in order after years of putting it off. I'm thankful for businesspeople on the board and in administration who were able to be rational about everything instead of increasing debts.

A lot is changing, but every university and institution has growing pains. It's hard. Now we see what sort of situation would have made the school sell all their valuable land across the street decades ago.

The board and administrators care so much about their students that they cut costs rather than raising the tuition to what would have been considerable highs. In everything that is being decided the students' best interests are put first. Because that is what Vanguard has always been about and will continue to uphold, the formation of students into spiritual, academic, professional, community, and world leaders.

Some want to blame someone, I guess people can point fingers. For them, I have my grandpa's office number, he's on the board and obviously helped make many of the decisions.

My view... I think God is doing great things there. He is in this too.