Sattler College

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Sattler College
Sattler College logo.png
TypePrivate
Established2016
Religious affiliation
 Nondenominational [1] [2]
Dean Hans Leaman
PresidentZack Johnson
Academic staff
15 in 2023
Students93 in 2023
Address
100 Cambridge Street 17th Floor
,
Boston
,
MA 02114
,
U.S.

42°21′38″N71°03′44″W / 42.3605°N 71.0623°W / 42.3605; -71.0623
CampusUrban office building 29,000+ ft2
Website www.sattler.edu

Sattler College is a private college in the Boston, Massachusetts, that associates itself with "the historic Christian faith."

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The college aims to "equip Jesus’ peaceful revolution" through relational discipleship and academic excellence. [3] The school was founded (and funded) by Dr. Finny Kuruvilla (former research fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT).

It welcomed its first class in the fall of 2018, received national accreditation in 2021, and graduated its first class in May of 2022. Projected external funding for the school is $30 million over the course of 25 years. [4] Its campus is in a high-rise office building in downtown Boston, overlooking the Charles River and Massachusetts State House.

History

In 2015, Dr. Finny Kuruvilla presented his idea of a college with "a comprehensive curriculum and beautiful campus overlooking the Boston Harbor... no traditional campus would offer a first-class education for only $9,000 each year." [5] He brought together a board of 6 people including 2 with PhDs from Ivy League schools and 2 with law degrees. [6] In December 2016, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education allowed the college to begin granting undergraduate degrees and exist as an autonomous institution. [7] Sattler College's first application opened in October 2017 and it began its first semester with students in the fall of 2018. [8]

Campus

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Entrance to 100 Cambridge Street

On October 26, 2017, the college announced that it had secured the 17th floor of the Leverett Saltonstall Building for its first campus. [9] It is located in downtown Boston in Beacon Hill. The college says that it had no plans for building science labs. Instead, they plan "to have students take laboratory courses through the Harvard University Extension School, Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, or elsewhere and transfer credits back to Sattler." [10] The college does plan to lease out apartment space to its students to provide housing options. [11]

Academics

Academic model

Classes are mostly discussion-based, with briefer lectures and greater student involvement.

Instead of having a library of their own, Sattler utilizes the Boston Public Library for its students. Sattler also provides electronic library resources by subscribing to the eBook services provided by two leading digital library service providers: Proquest (ebrary) and EBSCO." [10]

Degree programs

In its December 2016 decision, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education granted Sattler College the ability to grant the following degrees: [10] [12]

The college has announced that, "within ten years [by 2028], we plan to seek authorization to also offer programs in Civil Engineering, English, Education, Journalism, Mathematics, Physics, and Social Sciences." [10]

Religious affiliation

The college is named after Michael Sattler, a sixteenth-century Anabaptist Christian martyr. [13] Though the school is aligned with the theology of Conservative Anabaptism and is very closely connected to and associated with the local Followers of The Way (FOTW) church body, it is not affiliated with a particular denomination. Sattler College espouses principles from the early church and looks to the example of persecuted Christians. [1] Michael Sattler believed in the power of redemptive love and emulated the early church and Anabaptist groups by following Jesus's instruction to love one's enemies. [4]

Core values

One of Sattler College's self-proclaimed distinctives is its focus on "The Three C's": Core, Christian Character, and Cost. [14] [15]

In setting the curriculum, Kuruvilla looked to the first US colleges such as Harvard and Yale, where the first students there had to show proficiency in Bible literature and languages. [16] In this spirit, students are required to take religion courses on Christianity. [12] These courses include learning Old Testament Hebrew and New Testament Greek, church history, and studying the basics of Christianity. [17]

Sattler also requires students to complete an extensive core curriculum based on the liberal arts, including writing, history, biology, and math, as well as their major subjects. The college also focuses on students' Christian development through "wise study, mentoring, and discipleship." [14]

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  2. ↑ "Founding Precepts". Sattler College.
  3. ↑ Revolution In Higher Education: Sattler College with Dr. Kuruvilla - Ep: 24.
  4. 1 2 "New college for conservative Christians planned in Boston". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2017-12-29.
  5. ↑ "Sattler". Keswick Consulting. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  6. ↑ "Faculty & Staff". Sattler College. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  7. ↑ "New college for conservative Christians planned in Boston". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  8. ↑ "Admissions". Sattler College. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  9. ↑ "The View from 100 Cambridge Street". Sattler College. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  10. 1 2 3 4 N MacKinnon (6 December 2016). "Application of Sattler College to Award the Bachelor of Science in Business, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Human Biology, Bachelor of Arts in Biblical and Religious Studies, and the Bachelor of Arts in History" (PDF). Board of Higher Education. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "Corrections Regarding Recent Media Coverage". Sattler College. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  12. 1 2 "Course Catalog - Google Drive". drive.google.com. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  13. ↑ College, Sattler. "Who is Michael Sattler?". www.sattlercollege.org. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  14. 1 2 "Mission". Sattler College. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  15. ↑ "No place for 'snowflakes': Conservative Christian college poised to open in 2018". Fox News. 28 December 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  16. ↑ Christian Post website
  17. ↑ "Why learn biblical Greek and Hebrew?". Sattler College. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
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