 My name is Don Sweeting and I have the privilege of being the president of Colorado Christian University. It's a great school and I'm honored to be here. Well, just being the president of a university is a wonderful privilege and adventure, but to be the president of a Christ-centered university that is unashamed of Jesus Christ with all its implications for vital learning, why that's astounding. You see in many ways, CCU is like other colleges and universities. We're credited. We have undergraduate and graduate programs. We have traditional programs and programs for adults. We have syllabi and food service and athletic teams and a beautiful campus. But our heart is different from other institutions of higher learning and I like to explain it this way. Number one, we really do believe still in the idea of a university and that might sound strange to you, but many schools today are giving up on the idea of truth. The popular word last year was post-truth. We live in a post-truth world. How can you do university being post-truth? We think relativism and autonomy are bad ideas. We believe in goodness, beauty and truth. Because we believe in truth, we believe in academic standards, high academic standards. We've been ranked for the fifth year in a row in the top 2% of all colleges and universities in the United States because of our core curriculum. That's higher than most of the Ivy League schools and most of the popular Christian universities. And along with that, we believe in the formation of character, integrity, Christian character, spiritual formation, all of those matter intensely to us and they set us apart from so many different schools. Secondly, we are Colorado Christian University. We are convictionally Christian. You know, some universities are what they call Christophobic. They're afraid of Christ. They want to exclude Christ from anything they do. But a Christian university that believes in Jesus as the Son of God and believes in the gospel and believes in the Bible and its truthfulness will seek to integrate these things with all kinds of subjects. So if Jesus is really Lord, then His Lordship matters to every area of life and every subject is related to Him. Colossians tells us that in Christ all things hold together. In Him are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. This doesn't stifle learning. In fact, it was the dynamic core upon which the Western University was built and it's the springboard for a lifetime of wisdom and learning. Read our statement of faith and strategic objectives and you'll see the difference. Thirdly, we are Colorado Christian University. We are located in one of the most beautiful states in North America where the sun shines 300 days a year. Where the majestic Rocky Mountains tower over the campus where students have a longer weekend and can go ski or fly fish or whatever they want to do hiking, camping, have an outdoor experience so the connection with nature as well as the university, how many schools get to do that? In this setting, we are rebuilding our campus to make it an inspiring place for learning and we've been in the state since 1914 and today we are the premier Christian University in the mountain region. After leaving CCU, many of our students go on to the finest graduate schools in the world. Columbia, John Hopkins, Notre Dame, Princeton, Yale, Oxford, they're accepted everywhere. Many of our students go into business. They start their own companies or they work for some of the giants like IBM or Oppenheimer. Others go on to careers in non-profit institutions like Compassion International, World Vision or Christian Schools. Many have careers in government or healthcare. Some of them go on to become pastors, apologists or evangelists. As a university, we want to train a new generation of students who have a sense of calling. Who will go on to strengthen the church, engage the culture and spread the influence of Jesus Christ in all kinds of vocations everywhere. I hope you'll seriously consider becoming a part of Colorado Christian University.