Character and Leadership Development Focus
The Underclassman Years—Character Development
Goal: Establishing Integrity (knowing and choosing what is right in every area of life)
Integrity (e.g. completeness, wholeness) is being formed in a student when through the sanctification process all of life is coming under the lordship of Jesus Christ. Because of what Christ has done for the believer on the cross, the Christian student must respond to Christ’s call to become His disciple—someone who hears and obeys the words of his Master with the intent to be like Him.
Bob Jones University exists to grow Christlike character, and a student must demonstrate his commitment to that mission as a requirement for continued enrollment beyond his underclassman years.
The Upperclassman Years—Leadership Development
Goal: Exercising Influence (challenging others to know and choose what is right)
Bob Jones University develops servant-leadership by challenging upperclassmen to be Spirit-filled examples to their peers and to use every opportunity in campus interactions, residence hall life, student organizations and work responsibilities to promote and develop the Christian character and servant-leadership of others—even at personal sacrifice.
The themes of this development are fostered through the Student Leadership Initiative’s Leadership for Life emphasis.
