{"id":1175,"date":"2023-02-17T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tiu.edu\/news\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1175"},"modified":"2024-03-05T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T19:11:18","slug":"tiu-announces-expanded-global-vision-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiu.edu\/news\/tiu-announces-expanded-global-vision-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity International University Announces  Expanded Global Vision for the Future <br><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In-person and residential education will transition  to a fully online curriculum, effective May 2023<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DEERFIELD, Ill., Feb. 17, 2023<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 To better meet the needs of students in a changing higher education landscape, Dr. Nicholas Perrin, President of Trinity International University (TIU), today shared a plan that will position the University for long-term growth, industry leadership, and continued academic excellence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor over 125 years, Trinity has been educating men and women to engage in God\u2019s redemptive work in the world,\u201d said President Perrin. \u201cThis transformative strategy will position us to effectively and efficiently prioritize our core mission to train future leaders of the global evangelical church with biblically integrated, mentor-driven education for years to come.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yesterday evening, the Board of Regents voted to take the following steps:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discontinue residential and in-person undergraduate education (with the exception of the BA\/MDiv program), effective at the close of the spring 2023 semester;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reposition Trinity College and Trinity Graduate School, together with their excellent tenured faculty, for delivering fully online courses and programs intended for global audiences by fall 2023;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Close Camp Timber-lee, an entity that has struggled to establish financial viability well before it was gifted to TIU in 2016, which became an even greater challenge in recent years.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the past decade across the United States, institutions of higher education\u2014especially private liberal arts colleges\u2014have suffered an overall drop in college and graduate enrollments, in part, due to the sharply rising costs of attending a four-year university. Trinity International University has felt the consequences of these national trends, which were further exacerbated by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the subsequent economic fall-out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhile these challenges are real, the need has never been greater to think biblically about our identity as Christ-followers\u2014who we are as citizens and where we are going as professional educators with a biblical worldview,\u201d said Dr. Perrin.\u00a0\u201cIn this season of discernment, three key principles have guided our decision-making: that a Trinity education remains missional, accessible, and transformational.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trinity will be working to assist current undergraduate students who are impacted by the transition to an online platform, whether to complete their degrees virtually or to transfer to other educational institutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiu.edu\/reimagining-the-future\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as well as our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiu.edu\/reimagining-the-future\/student-faq\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student FAQ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for some additional information and details about the implementation of this plan for Trinity\u2019s future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEERFIELD, Ill., Feb. 17, 2023 \u2014 To better meet the needs of students in a changing higher education landscape, Dr. Nicholas Perrin, President of Trinity International University (TIU), today shared a plan that will position the University for long-term growth, industry leadership, and continued academic excellence.\u00a0 \u201cFor over 125 years, Trinity has been educating men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - 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