University of the West

University of the West (commonly accepted as UWest) is a private, not-for-profit, university amid in Rosemead, California. It was founded in 1990 by Venerable Master Hsing Yun, architect of the Taiwan-based Buddhist adjustment Fo Guang Shan and Hsi Lai Temple, the North American adjustment headquarters. The academy offered its aboriginal chic in bounce of 1991.

UWest is a private, non profit, non-sectarian university accepted by WASC Senior Academy and University Commission back 2006 as an undergraduate and avant-garde degree-granting institution.
Although founded by a Buddhist organization, UWest is not a Buddhist college, which is a appellation about acclimated for monasteries or schools that alternation humans for the apostolic order.UWest acceptance are not appropriate to subscribe to the Buddhist acceptance or convenance Buddhism in any form. Indeed, UWest's undergraduate and alum programs in Business Administration accumulate academy acceptance numbers than its undergraduate and alum programs in Religious Studies.

History
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The university, again accepted as Hsi Lai University (Chinese: 西來大學; pinyin: Xi lái dà xué) started in a baby classroom in Hsi Lai Temple, the North American arch annex of the Fo Guang Shan order. In its aboriginal division (1991) the academy had alone four advisers and a apprentice physique of about 30 acceptance fabricated up of monks and nuns from the temple. Early advisers were Dr. Roger Schmidt, Dr. Dan Lusthaus, Dr. Jim Santucci (now armchair of the Department of Allusive Religion at California State University, Fullerton), and Dr. Lewis Lancaster, an eminent Western bookish of Buddhism, a above UWest admiral and now Armchair Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. Over the years, anniversary of those aboriginal advisers accept alternate to the UWest campus to advise or act in authoritative roles (or both).

In 1996, Fo Guang Shan purchased a acreage at 1409 Walnut Grove Ave. in Rosemead, California, a multicultural suburb of the San Gabriel Valley, about ten afar east of city Los Angeles. The campus belonged to Biola University at the time and was the website of Biola's seminary school. According to Dr. Jim Chen, a UWest assistant of accounting and one of the aboriginal negotiators of the acreage purchase, the Christian-based Biola alignment was afraid to advertise the acreage to a Buddhist organization. After a tussle, the acreage was auspiciously purchased.

At that time, the university absitively to accompany accreditation while aswell abacus added programs to its offerings. Undergraduate and avant-garde degrees in business, English, psychology, history, philosophy, Chinese language, and allusive religious studies were added. An English as a Second Accent affairs was aswell established, accustomed the all-embracing appearance of acceptance admiring to the school. The amount programs in history, philosophy, Chinese language, and the available of arts in Buddhist studies, are no best offered, about they abide accepted should the university revisit them in the future.

The accreditation action took about 10 years to complete, with above Dean of Bookish Affairs and acclaimed Buddhist bookish Dr. Ananda Guruge council the drive for WASC recognition. Accreditation was accepted in February, 2006.[citation needed] Shortly thereafter a drive to allure American acceptance to the campus was initiated. As of 2014, about 40% of the apprentice physique are American citizens or abiding residents.

Dr. Stephen Morgan is Admiral and Assistant of Academy Education Emeritus at the University of La Verne in southern California. Dr. Morgan served as Admiral of the University of La Verne for twenty six years, backward from that position in 2011. Prior to the presidency, Dr. Morgan served as Executive Director of the Independent Colleges of Northern California (1979-1985), Director of Development at the University of Southern California (1976-1979) and in a array of positions, including Vice Admiral for Development, at the University of La Verne (1968-1976).

Dr. Morgan is a above affiliate and Vice Armchair of the Senior Accrediting Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and has served as the armchair of abundant accreditation teams throughout California. He aswell served for added than twenty years on the Executive Committee of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities and is a above armchair of that statewide organization. Dr. Morgan served as a Director of the Independent Colleges of Southern California. During his presidency, Dr. Morgan was accustomed by the Western Region of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education as the CEO of The Year.

In accession to his able memberships, Dr. Morgan has been an alive baton in the southern California community. He served as a Director and Armchair of the Board of the Los Angeles County Fair Association, Director and Armchair of the Board of the Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center and Director and Armchair of the Board of the LeRoy Haynes Children’s Center. Dr. Morgan currently serves as a Director of Bright Prospect, an alignment that prepares aboriginal bearing and boyhood acceptance for college, and he serves as a Director and Armchair of the Board of My Own Business, Inc., a not-for-profit alignment that offers training for those who ambition to alpha their own business. Dr. Morgan is a Director and Armchair of the Board of Hillcrest, a abounding account retirement association confined added than four hundred association in La Verne, Ca..
Dr. Morgan becoming a B.A from the University of La Verne, an M.S from the University of Southern California and an Ed.D. from the University of Northern Colorado.

Facilities
University of the West consists of three capital buildings, two Residence Halls and an auditiorium on an 11-acre (4.5 ha), acropolis campus.

The lower attic of the Administration Architecture offers casework such as Apprentice Life, Banking Aid, Admissions, etc. The high attic appearance classrooms, an Investment Lab for business students, and the offices of the president. The Administration Architecture underwent a above addition from 2003 to 2012.

The three-story Education Architecture houses the library, Kenneth A. Locke Hall, IT services, classrooms, bookish departments, professors' offices, the Apprentice Success Center and the Extended Studies offices. The architecture was avant-garde in 2003-2012.

The amusement architecture at the top of the campus hosts the cafeteria, cafe, gym, bold allowance and apprentice kitchen.

Financial Aid
UWest is accustomed by the U.S. Department of Education to acquit Federal Banking Aid. Added banking aid options cover the Stafford Loan, Plus Loan, Pell Grants, Perkins Loan Program, etc. UWest aswell offers institutional banking aid, such as scholarships, charge waivers and tuitionships (a anatomy of plan study) to acceptance who qualify.

Accreditation
UWest was accepted in February, 2006, by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). The university has a associates cachet in the WASC. This agency that the degrees and courses currently accurate by the university will alteration to added universities with bounded or civic accreditations.

Enrollment
UWest acceptance stood at 348 acceptance as of the bounce 2014 semester. The campus has apparent a cogent advance in citizenry back accreditation in 2006. The apprentice physique is still primarily all-embracing in character, about as of abatement 2014 about 40 percent of the apprentice physique were U.S. citizens or abiding residents, primarily from the Los Angeles area. Aside from U.S. students, the apprentice physique is fabricated up of acceptance from about 50 countries.