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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, DECEMBER
16,
1986
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in all, the next two years could be, as many have said, a period of
"drift and deadlock" at the apex of American government, with all the
repercussions in critical foreign policy areas we noted above.
--Gene H. Hogberg, News Bureau
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Editor's Note: The Spanish word "somos' in
Mr.
Tkach's letter last
issue was misspelled as "samos."
Al so ,
in the process of editing, we did not make clear in 'Ambassador
College Update" that, due to new state legislation, Ambassador College,
and all colleges authorized to issue degrees under a particular section
of the -California Education Code, were required to be reviewed by the
State Department of Education this fall. As a result of that.review,
Ambassador had been reauthorized under the new law to operate as a
school of theology (an option the law did not previously make available
to us). The new legislation might have eventually required compromise
of Ambassador's policies had we sought reauthorization as a "liberal
arts institution."
As a school of theology, we are authorized to confer degrees of Bachelor
of Arts in Theology, Associate
of
Arts in Theology, and Associate
of
Science in Theology. Students may still emphasize, however, particular
areas of study, such as business, communications, home economics, data
processing, etc. in receiving their theology degrees. And we are able
to maintain the policies and Church government that
Mr.
Armstrong first
instituted for Ambassador College.
This state 'authorization has nothing to do with accreditation. It
is
merely an updating of the standard authorization the College has had
from its inception. The overall effectiveness of our degrees will not
change. More details will appear in an article in an upcoming issue of
"The Worldwide News." We apologize for any misunderstanding created by
the brevity
of
last issue's article.