THE VISION AND THE VISION AND MISSION OF MISSION OF COVENANT COVENANT UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY

Presented By: Dr. David O. Oyedepo

Chancellor, Covenant University

Covenant University, Ota Executive

AdvanceAugust 2015

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PreambleWhen anyone’s goal

becomes a task, all his senses will come alive, all his energies will be released.

The story of a 60-pounds weight woman scaling a 6-meter wall, being pursued by a mad dog! 2

There is nothing mystical about excellence, it is a product of one’s tireless commitment to improvement.

One cannot be committed to a course and not be creative in his approach, and one cannot be creative and not productive, and one cannot be productive and not be successful and as one grows his success, he becomes impactful. 3

Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday’. 4

Henry Ford once noted, ‘when you stop learning, you are old, whether at 20 or at 80 but when you keep learning, you are young, whether at 80 or at 20. The best thing to do is to keep your mind young.

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Everyone’s takes in life is a product of his thought.

For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he – Pro. 25:7

Only those who think possibilities dare the impossible and delivers the unthinkable.

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I once discovered a statement, which appears to me as the motto of the American nation: ‘America, home of the free and land of the brave’.

My Reaction: Only the brave ever become great.

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I then declared my own intellectual liberty; ‘It does not have to be white to be right’.

We all have equal rights to learning and thinking solutions, the colour or race, nothwithstanding.

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Oprah Winfrey once noted, ‘Excellence is the greatest deterrent to racism and sexism’

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•Without a vision is a people made naked. This implies that vision is the custodian of colour and beauty of destiny.

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Vision of Covenant University

To be a leading world-class University, committed to raising a New Generation of Leaders in all fields of Human endeavours.

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Mission StatementTo create knowledge and restore the dignity of the black man via a Human Development and Total Man Concept driven curriculum employing innovative, leading edge, teaching and learning methods, research and professional services that promote integrated, life-applicable, life-transforming education relevant to the context of Science, Technology and Human Capacity Building. 12

Our Mandate

“Raising a new generation of leaders through a qualitative and life-applicable training system that focuses on value and skill development.”

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“Raising a new generation of leaders through a broad based qualitative education built on sound biblical principles culminating in the birth of path-finders, pace-setters and trail-blazers.”

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“Raising a new generation of leaders who shall redeem the battered image of the black race and restore her lost glory as these trained army of reformers begin to build the old waste, repair the wasted cities and raise the desolation of many generations.”

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Our Founding Philosophy A departure from ‘Form’ to ‘Skill’

A departure from ‘knowledge’ to ‘empowerment’

A departure from ‘figures’ to ‘future-building’ 16

A departure from ‘legalism’ to ‘realism’

A departure from ‘points’ to ‘facts’

A departure from ‘mathe-matics’ to ‘life-matics’.

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Our Core Values

Spirituality Possibility Mentality

Capacity-Building Integrity

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Responsibility Diligence Sacrifice

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COVENANT UNIVERSITY ANTHEMWE ARE A COVENANT GENERATION PURSUING EXCELLENCE REDEEMED TO REIGN LEARNING TO LEAD WE’RE BOUND BY AN OATH, OBEYING RULES TO RULE MAKING KINGS OF YOUTH FLYING HIGH ON COVENANT WINGS, 20

WISDOM CALLS FOR CHANGE INSPIRED ON FIRE WITH COURAGE MATCHING ON IN GRACE GODS OWN ARROW SHOT FOR GLORY

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COVENANT GENERATION ARISE LIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE TO SHINE, GLORIOUS FOUNDATION STONE LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO SHOW DEPARTING FROM KNOWLEDGE TO EMPOWERMENT LEGALISM TO REALISM

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LOOKING AT CHRISTIAN-FAITH FOUNDED

UNIVERSITIES IN GLOBAL RANKING

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S/NNAME OF

UNIVERSITYORIGINAL OWNER

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DATE OF

ESTABLISHMENT

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1HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Original purpose was to train Puritan ministers

1636 TRUTH

2UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Offering a thoroughly classical curriculum of Latin and Greek to children under "the pervading influence and spirit of the Christian religion

1868LET THERE BE LIGHT

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3CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

CATHOLIC 1209

From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge

4COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

CHURCH OF ENGLAND 1754In Thy light shall we see light (Psalms 36:9)

5PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

NEW LIGHT PRESBYTARIANS

1746Under God's power she flourishes

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6UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

American Baptist Education Society and John D. Rockefeller

1890

Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched

7OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary

1096THE LORD IS MY LIGHT

8YALE UNIVERSITY

originally an institution created to train ministers.

1701LIGHT AND TRUTH

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9UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1740Laws without morals are useless

10UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

for the education of youth in the principles of the Christian Religion

1827As a tree through the ages

11IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

ORIGINALLY A SEMINARY 1447

Knowledge is the adornment and protection of the Empire

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12DUKE UNIVERSITY

METHODIST& QUAKER FAMILIES

1838Knowledge and Faith

13VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Methodist Episcopal Church

1873To thine own self be true

14UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

CATHOLIC 1479Seeking light in the heavens

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15UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

EAST FLORIDA SEMINARY

1906

The welfare of the state depends upon the morals of its citizen

16MCGILL UNIVERSITY

JAMES MCGILL 1821By hardwork, all things increase and grow

17CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY

ANDREW CARNEGIE 1900My heart is in the work

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18UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST (GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH)

1850The book of learning is always open.

19BROWN UNIVERSITY

BAPTIST 1636 In God we hope

20UNIVERSITY OF LEIDEN

WILLIAM OF ORANGE / Originally located in the convent of St Barbara

1575Bastion of Freedom

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21KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

KING GEORGE IV & DUKE OF WELLINGTON

1829With holiness and with wisdom

22BOSTON UNIVERSITY

METHODIST 1869Learning, Virtue and Piety

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McMASTER UNIVERSITY, CANADA

Baptist Convention of Ontario

1887All things cohere in Christ

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UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Through the work of William Sands Cox in his aim of a medical school along strictly Christian lines

1825

Through hard work, great heights are achieved

25UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

THOMAS JEFFERSON

1819

26UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG

CATHOLIC 1457The truth will make you free

Let Us examine the Christian root of some of the world-class

Universities.

Harvard University (oldest institution of higher learning in the US.

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• Christian culture: Harvard made it a basic rule for learning that every student must understand that the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ is the only foundation for all sound knowledge and learning.

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Yale UniversityEstablished 1701. The institution is also founded on Christian doctrine and actually instructed her students to obtain the clearest conception of divine things and enforced concrete regulations to lead them to a saving knowledge of God in His son Jesus Christ.

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Princeton UniversityPrinceton University demanded that every student attend worship in the College Hall morning and evening at the hours appointed and that they must behave with gravity and reverence during service. It was also mandatory for every student to attend Sunday service.

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Columbia UniversitySimilarly, Columbia University would not accept any student that could not render in English the gospel from Greek.

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All of these show the quality of Christian-based education all through history. America, today, owes her sustaining values to these institutions.

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Vision ‘One of Ten in Ten’

VISION ‘ONE OF TEN IN TEN’ IS A CHEAP POSSIBILITY THROUGH OUR TIRELESS COMMITMENT TO IMPROVEMENT AND RIGOROUS PURSUIT OF THE VISION. 39

POSSIBILITY MENTALITY IS KEY TO A WORLD OF UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES.

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Thank you!

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