Sports & GamesSports & GamesThe educational programme at Spicer Adventist University is based on the philosophy that a university education is much more than the completion of a certain course of study. Work is a divinely-ordained plan to help the individual to grow properly and develop harmoniously to become an all-round personality. No wonder one wise person coined the sage adage, “Work is worship”
In order to train students in worthy vocational service, to inculcate in them qualities of dignity of labour, cleanliness, cooperation, industry, integrity, leadership, respect for and value of money, self-actualization and self-sufficiency, the university incorporates a work education programme as part of its wholesome academic plan and provides work opportunities in its various service and industrial units to students for their holistic development. The units especially established for this purpose include the bakery, cafeteria, confectionery, estate, gardens, hostels, laboratories, library, maintenance department (carpentry, electrical, janitorial, painting, plumbing), food and metal industries, offices, press, security, sports, and other departments of the university. This also provides opportunities, especially for needy students, to earn while learning, a part, if not the whole, of their expenses. Here students are being educated in socially useful and productive labour.
While it is right and necessary for them to have recreation they should be taught to work, and to have regular hours for physical labour and also for recreation and study. Physical labour that is combined with mental taxation for usefulness is a discipline in practical life, sweetened always by the reflection that it is qualifying and developing the mind and body better to perform the work and thus educating the “head, heart and hand”.
Further, labour is ennobling because it opens vistas of virtues that can be inculcated in a person giving him greater dignity. Also, one must learn the need and value of working together for a common good and a worthy objective. Each person is responsible to the society of which he or she is a part, a responsibility to maintain and make it prosperous by personal contribution. Each must come to realize that the needs of the society are also personal needs, and that he or she must join with the rest in meeting those needs. Work in this setting is a contributory factor to a rich and wholesome life. To provide this training the university maintains a work education programme, and this programme requires a student to put in a minimum of 5 hours of work each week. The student’s work is evaluated on the quality of work, initiative, honesty, dependability, resourcefulness, punctuality and regularity.
Work Education Policy:
Special provision for work is given to self supporting students.
The work done by a student is graded on a semester basis in a system of letter grade. While a student is given an opportunity to indicate personal preference for type of work, the final decision rests with the Work Education office. Attempts, however, will be made to place a student in the desired department. Generally, students are expected to work in certain service units of the university such as the bakery, cafeteria, confectionery, estate, janitorial, maintenance, metal works, soya industry, etc.
