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Our Vision
 
Our vision is to make the life giving truth of the Gospel available to every student in the Northeast and ultimately to every student in the world. The modern college campus is often a place where spiritual life is ignored or rejected. Yet college students of this generation are among the most spiritually hungry in history. They will inevitably lead our culture, economy and government. We need your help to make the profound truths of the Bible available to college students, and to help students grow into mature human beings and citizens.
What's Unique about the Northeast?
 
Since its beginning Campus Crusade has sought to take the gospel to the most influential places in the world.  We believe that by reaching college students of today we reach the leaders of the world tomorrow.

As we have worked with college students we have seen the impact they make around the world.  The campuses in the Northeast send leaders into the worlds of business, politics, journalism, education, entertainment, academia, etc. like no other place on earth.  God, in His wisdom has given that part of the country a unique position in shaping world thought and history.  Here are several examples...

  • Whether you voted for John Kerry or George Bush you voted for a Yale graduate.
  • Walter Isaacson, the managing editor of Time - arguably one of the most influential magazines today, graduated from Harvard.  Arthur Sulzberger—Senior Editor of the NY Times went to Tufts in Boston.
  • Seven of the nine Supreme Court Justices hold degrees from Northeast Schools, most from Harvard.
  • The people who decide which offerings to provide on television, for our families to watch, work on the East Coast—many studied there as well.  New York is home to most major networks.
  • About half of the Presidential Cabinet holds a degree from a campus in the Northeast.
    Of all the four year schools in the country one fifth (20%) are located in the states of NY, RI, CT, MA, NH, VT, or ME.
  • Ever since Emerson and Thoreau wrote about existentialism—and started what’s known as the American Enlightenment, from Concord, MA—the worldviews held by Americans have been profoundly influenced by the Northeast region.

       

An incredible amount of foreign leaders—people who shape our world—studied in The US.  Many of them hold degrees from campuses in the Northeast.  Here are several examples…

  • Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary General, studied at MIT.
  • Jacque Chirac, France’s President holds his degree from Harvard University.
  • The President of Brazil, Fernando Cardoso, studied at Columbia.
  • Sweden’s Minister of Foreign affairs has a Harvard Diploma.
  • Germany’s former Prime Minister, Albrecht, attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.  So did Egypt’s Boutros Ghali, the former Secretary General of the UN.
  • Chile’s Ambassador to the USA, Andres Bianchi, studied at Yale.
  • The Prime ministers or Presidents of Malaysia, Norway, Nambia, Pakistan, The Philippines, Taiwan, Greece and Turkey, along with many other nations were students in the Northeast.

       

This list barely scratches the surface of all the heads of state, ministers of defense, Ambassadors and other government leaders from around the world.

We see the Northeast, with all its influence around the globe, as a power platform for foreign missions.

Tomorrow’s leaders in world politics are on the college campus of today.  A disproportionate number are studying in the Northeast.

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