[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 130 (Friday, September 25, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1810-E1811]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


            CONGRATULATIONS TO CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

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                            HON. KEN CALVERT

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 25, 1998

  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, today, after nearly a half-century as a 
member of California's higher education community, California Baptist 
College becomes California Baptist University. Cal Baptist, founded in 
1950, was housed in a borrowed church building for its first four 
years, moved to its present Riverside location in 1954 and earned 
accreditation in 1961.
  The college reaches this milestone under the leadership of Dr. Ronald 
L. Ellis, president since 1994. Former presidents are Dr. P. Boyd 
Smith, 1950-57; Dr. Loyed R. Simmons, 1958-69; Dr. James R. Staples, 
1970-84; and Dr. Russell R. Tuck, 1984-94.
  During the 1980's, the college was on the cutting edge of non-
traditional education when it established the Business Executive 
program, the pre-cursor to the current Evening Degree-Completion 
program for working adults. In the mid-eighties, the college added its 
first post-graduate degree, a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology. 
Three years ago, the college added a Master of Education degree and, 
last year, the Master of Business Administration degree. From 1994 to 
1997, the institutional enrollment increased 149 percent, much of it 
through graduate and Evening Degree-Completion programs.
  California Baptist College has consistently produced well-schooled 
graduates. Scores of children in my district are the beneficiaries of 
that product as they thrive under the teaching of Cal Baptist alumni. 
The graduates of Cal Baptist's Master's degree program in Counseling 
Psychology have an unusually high pass rate on the state licensing 
exam. Cal Baptist alumni serve in the Riverside police department, city 
government, management in our local banking institutions, a broad array 
of social service agencies, and church-related positions on a global 
scale.
  California Baptist College--now university--is in the business of 
preparing complete people, people who are equipped to make a 
difference. The university provides an environment that fosters not 
only intellectual development, but spiritual, emotional, physical, and 
character development. Students are involved in outreach to the 
homeless; tutoring programs at the county juvenile facility and Sherman 
Indian High School, a local Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school; 
city clean up projects; and the City of Riverside's Study Circles on 
Race Relations.
  The university adheres to a high ethical standard, the kind of 
standard to which our nation has traditionally aspired and which we 
continue to uphold as the mark of the truly successful. On behalf of 
the residents of the 43rd Congressional District, it is an honor to 
congratulate California Baptist University upon the occasion of their 
transition to university status.

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