Thursday, February 21, 2002 TODAY
Representatives from Mission College, Thailand, visit LLU
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| Joyce W. Hopp, PhD (third from right), dean of the School of Allied Health Professions, Loma Linda University; and Marilyn Davidian, MS, chair, department of health information management (second from right), visit with administrators from Mission College, Muak Lek, Thailand. They are (from left) Sunipa Sormin, associate director for marketing and development; Gilbert M. Valentine, PhD, vice president for academic administration; Siriporn Tantipoonwinai, PhD, president; and Simon Sim, MBA, vice president for financial administration. |
While visiting the Loma Linda University campus on Tuesday, February
5, representatives from Mission College, Muak Lek, Thailand, met with
various LLU administrators and signed an agreement establishing a formal
connection between the two schools.
Proposing a connection with Loma Linda University, the Mission College
administrators focused on the health and science credits offered at their
school that would transfer easily into the LLU system.
“Mission College's computer information science and business administration
programs would move well into our master's of health information administration
program,” says Marilyn Davidian, MA, associate professor and chair,
department of health information management, School of Allied Health Professions.
“The science program at Mission College is the best-kept secret in
the Adventist system,” shares Gilbert M. Valentine, PhD, vice president
for academic administration, Mission College. “By establishing an
agreement with Loma Linda University, we hope to formalize transfer of
credits and give our students wider options.”
The tentative plans would also include a faculty exchange program, giving
LLU professors the opportunity to teach in Thailand and enriching the
educational experience for students at Mission College.
Recently renovated and expanded, the Mission College campus was designed
to accommodate 2,000 students. With a student population of 370, the school
is growing rapidly and actively recruiting students to fill its classrooms.
An agreement with Loma Linda University would increase academic choices
at Mission College.
“We have a strong international faculty, with 17 different nationalities
represented,” comments Sunipa Sormin, associate director for marketing
and development, Mission College.
With students from around the world, including Australia, Cambodia, Europe,
Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam, the
school provides a unique setting for learning and understanding different
cultures.
Mission College is the union of three institutions—the Bangkok Adventist
Hospital School of Nursing (established 1941), Mission College (established
in late 1988), and Southeast Asia Union College (established 1908) in
Singapore.
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