AFRICAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL AND BENEVOLNT ASSN INC

Our goal is to equip African women and men for the challenges facing their communities, families, and churches. We primarily serve Africans in the English-speaking belt of countries from South Africa through Kenya.

Graduates should have the following qualities:
1) Academic excellence characterized by critical thinking, effective communication, and lifelong learning.
2) Christian character identified through substantial growth in Christlikeness and putting Christ ahead of conflicting cultural heritages.
3) Servant leadership expressed through service and empowerment of others.
4) Global awareness exhibited through seeking justice and innovation for good.
5) Ability to maintain themselves without outside financial support
Additionally, our goal is to become a leading institution in Christian higher education in Africa.

Our strategies for accomplishing our goals include the following:

- Gaining a globally-recognizable accreditation to certify our academic programs and the student learning outcomes we propose.

- Intentional, hands-on curriculum and co-curricular activities for putting servant-leadership, global awareness, and Christian character into practice. These include volunteer service, internships, class projects in the community, and work-study employment.

- Implementing a new spiritual formation program for students, staff, and board. All of the ACC family is committing to an individualized spiritual formation assessment and development to attempt deep and substantial development toward Christlikeness.

African Christian College has developed in many areas over the past five years toward accomplishment of these goals.

- We have earned full accreditation with the Association for Christian Theological Education in Africa (ACTEA), a pan-Africa academic accrediting body with global recognition. And we are fully-registered (highest available recognition) with the Eswatini Higher Education Council (ESHEC), part of the Eswatini Ministry of Education & Training.

- We have great partnerships with other Christian universities throughout the world who send visiting lecturers, share resources, and aid in our academic and spiritual development. These include Abilene Christian University, Oklahoma Christian University, Harding University, Lipscomb University, and others. And it includes a Master of Arts in Christian Ministry program with Abilene Christian University that is affordable, relevant, and helpful to African students.

- Our campus has capacity for over 60 full-time students. Our library has over 10,000 volumes for academic research, including a growing Africana section.

- Our Tree of Life program and UKWAZI macadamia product line is experiencing growth as we seek earned revenue for funding. Gardens and livestock are also grown on campus in order to minimize operating costs for food services on campus.

We have implemented a new curriculum designed to better prepare our students for the challenges facing Africa including emphasis on ethics, spiritual formation, leadership, witchcraft/animism/worldview, and HIV/AIDS. We are implementing other changes in intentionality toward the kinds of graduates we seek to have and the metrics through which we'll measure these.

Measuring impact and progress has not been a priority for us until recently so we have little data to support our current impact except to that over 80% of our graduates are actively involved in church work of some kind. We certainly believe that our students are better prepared for leadership within and without the church when they graduate from ACC and we observe significant, positive changes in the character of our students during their time on campus.