GENERAL INFORMATION IIIIIE
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THE BIOLA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS The campus is bounded on the west by BioloAvenue and on the east by Lo Mirada Boulevard. It is located between the large east-west thoroughfares of Rosecrans Avenue and Imperial Highway. Approximately three miles to the south west is the Santo Ano Freeway (Freeway 1-5). Students coming to the campus by automobile should follow these directions: coming from the northwest, leave the Santo Ano Freeway at Rosecrans and travel east to Biolo Avenue; coming from the southeast, leave the Santo Ano Freeway at Volley View and travel north to Rosecrans, then turn right to Biolo Avenue, coming from the east via Son BernardinoFreeway (10) turn south on the Orange Freeway (57) to Imperial Highway and travel west on Imperial Highway to Biolo Avenue. (Note: See inside cover mop. ) The campus now consists of 95 acres with over l /2 million square feet of building space in 30 major buildings. Just under half of the space is dedicated to 7 student residence complexes, housi ng nearly 1,400 students in a fine variety of living quarters. The rest of the buildings house classrooms, laboratories, audito riums, offices and student services. Highlightsof the buildingsinclude Soubirou Holl, anewly remodeled 9,500 square foot building containing specialized classrooms for nursing instruction, along with nursing deportment faculty offices; Lansing Audito rium, a 450-seot concert hall with a fine pipe organ and excellent acoustics; the Rose of Sharon Chapel , a small chapel exclusively reserved for silent prayer and meditation; and agymnasium-swimming complex with ashort-course Olympic pool. On the eastern side of the campus lie the athletic fields. Included ore acrushed brick quarter-mile track, on excellent baseball diamond, asoccer field, and archery range and tennis courts. Additional recreation facilities ore located in the 1OS-acre Lo Mirada Regional Pork, just across Lo Mirada Boulevard from the Biolo campus. In addition, Biolo hos along term lease on 20 acres adjoining the main campus which formerly housed on intermediate school. This land includes 58,000 square feet of classrooms and office buildings, and over 10 acresof athletic fields available for Biolo's extensive intramural program and for informal recreation. THE LIBRARY The Biolo University Library is under a unified administration and serves the undergraduate and graduate levels of Biolo University. The periodical subscriptions include 1,120 titles currently being received. Other holdings include over 185,000 volumes of books and bound periodicals Auxiliary collectionscontain pamphlet files and curriculum teaching units for the education and Christion education deport ments. The main public catalog and other files contain approximately 750,000 cords. Two copy machines ore accessible to students. The library hos microfiche, microfilm and microcord readers. Audio-visual materials ore available for student use from theMedia Center. In addition, there ore listeningcenters for language studies and other toped instruction at the Media Center. Students hove access to the several million volumes in the libraries of adozen colleges, universit ies and seminaries in the greater Los Angeles area. Students and faculty hove access to bibliographic search service through the data bases of CLASS, DIALOG and RUN. The staff consists of four professional librarians, nine full-time assistants and a number of port-time student assistants. MEDIA CENTER The Media Center services the equipment and non-book instruction needs of the university. Equipment and instructional materials orelocated on the McNolly portion of the campus. The collection of material includes 16mm and 8mm motion pictures and film clips, 35mm filmstrips, audio tape recordings, video tape recordings, disc records, overhead transparencies, slides and other types of educational material. Appropriate equipment is available for large group, small group or individual study of the instructional materials. Production of slides, filmstrips, thermal or diozo transparencies as well as many other services ore available to the faculty upon request. · BOOKSTORE The University Bookstore is open six days and two evenings aweek to supply all required textbooks as well as non-required books. Students will findalarge selec tion of cords, stationery, gift items, records and tapes, school and art supplies, plus items for personal needs. Bibles in a variety of styles and bindings ore available.
lions to mankind and to enhance the spiritual well-being of those whom and with whom he serves. a. One who hos developed and maintained high moral standards for his own benefit and in order that he might serve asawholesome example and leader. b. One who expresses through his life aclear commitment to Christ, who is able openly and wisely to shore both his knowledge of the Bible and his commitment to Christ with others; and who demonstrates Christion love toward others. c. One who is prepared to fulfill Christ's commission to make disciples of all notions. d. One who is sensitive to the total needs of his fellowman and who is equipped to contribute to the meeting of those needs. e. One who holds to the conviction that the Christion is to be agood citizen of the State, one who respects authority, submits to the lowsof the land and seeks constructive change through legal channels. •All third person pronouns ore used generically. ACCREDITATION AND AFFILIATIONS Biolo University holds inst itutional accreditation by the Accrediting Commission for Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. In addition, the institution and certain of its programs ore accredited by the American Association of Bible Colleges, The American Psychological Association, the Association of Theological Schools, the Notional Association of Schools of Music, the State of California Boord of Registered Nursing, the Notional League for Nursing, the California Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licens ing. Biolo University is authorized to train students under the Veteran's Bill of Rights. In addition, the college is affiliated with anumber of professional organizations, of which the following ore representative: American Anthropological Associat ion; American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education; American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admission Officers; American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; American Comping Association; American Council on Education; American Guild of Organists; American Intercollegiate Athletic Women; American Library Associ ation; Associated Collegiate Press; Association of Christion Schools, Internation al; Association of College Unions International; American Association of Higher Education; Associat ion of Independent California Colleges and Universities; California Association of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation; California Council on the Education of Teachers; Choral Conductors' Guild (California); Christion Comping International ; Christion College Coalition; Christion Scholar's Review; Co llege Entrance Examination Boord; Council on Post-secondary Accredi tation; Evangelical Teacher Training Association; Intercolleg iate Press; Music Educators' Notional Conference; Notional Association of Intercollegiate Athletics; Western Association of Graduate Schools; Western Council on Higher Education for Nursing; and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. THE COMMUNITY OF LA MIRADA The city of Lo Mirada is in Los AngelesCounty, twenty-two miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, and is surrounded by such cit ies as Whittier, Norwalk, Bueno Pork, Lo Habra and Fullerton. Lo Mirada is asuburban residential community with a population of 40,000. Included within the vicinity ore several major shopping areas in addition tomany other business establishments. Lo Mirada is situated near many of the outstanding attractions of Southern California. Downtown Los Angeles con be reached in ahalf-hour's drive from the campus. Disneyland is twelve miles to the southeast and famed Knoll's Berry Form is six miles away. Within on hour's drive ore such popular beach cities as Long Beach, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach. Recreational facilities ore easily accessible. An eighteen-hole golf course liesa mile east of the campusand other porks in the area offer opportunity for activities and relaxation. An hour's drive will toke one into the nearby mountains where winter sports ore available. Cultural and research opportunities abound in the area. Several major universi ties and libraries ore within easy driving distance of Lo Mirada including the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the University of California, Irvine and several other state and private institutions.
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