David Jang Olivet University Founder

By the time Dr. David Jang founded Olivet University, his years of grassroots mission work on foot and through digital media had carried the good seed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to many far-reaching corners of the world, including places hostile to Christian faith. The thankful result was a harvest of men and women devoted to Jesus Christ and working together for the Great Commission to "go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19).

Olivet started humbly as a church school that functioned as a "seedbed" for missionary training and service. (The original meaning of the word "seminary" is "seedbed.") Dr. Jang recognized the benefits of further formalizing this training. In the year 2000, Olivet Theological College and Seminary (OTCS) was established in both Los Angeles and in Seoul, Korea.

As the seminary expanded, Dr. Jang decided to make the institution's new home in San Francisco under the official name "Olivet University" when he incorporated the school on March 3, 2004. San Francisco seemed an ideal place to call home. In addition to the blessing of gorgeous weather, San Francisco also featured rich ethnic diversity that continues to be reflected in Olivet’s diverse faculty and student population. San Francisco also provided a vibrant start-up scene that would act like an incubator to accelerate the growth of the young University.

Starting off in a humble basement office in downtown San Francisco, Dr. Jang led Olivet to quickly align itself with the needs of the Great Commission and the worldwide Christian community by adding a number of schools to its flagship school, Olivet Theological College & Seminary: Jubilee College of Music; Olivet College of Journalism; Olivet College of Art & Design; and Olivet Institute of Technology.

Dr. Jang also invited onto the faculty Dr. William Wagner, a renowned mission strategist and Professor of Missions at the neighboring Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. Seeing a shared passion for saving souls in Dr. Jang and Olivet students, Dr. Wagner in turn introduced a number of talented local faculty members to teach at Olivet full time, and continues to devote himself to service at Olivet to this day.

In 2005, by the grace of God, Dr. Jang settled Olivet into the former University of California Berkeley Downtown Extension Campus. Steps away from the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco (the Moscone Center), the campus came perfectly prepared with educational facilities of exceptional quality for carrying out Olivet's mission.

In 2006, Dr. David Jang decided it was time to pursue his passion for mission-field work fulltime. Completing his term, he handed over the presidency to Dr. David James Randolph. On July 17, 2006 Dr. Randolph received the honor of becoming Olivet University's 2nd University President, while Dr. Jang assumed the role of the University's International President, giving leadership to the school's mission outreach to the farthest reaches of the world.

The school that Dr. Jang founded flourished in the years that followed. In 2009, the University had received institutional accreditation by the Association for Biblical Higher Education. New schools of Language Education and Business were added, as well as expanded authority to offer a full range of degree programs, including the research doctorate.

During this time Olivet experienced similar growth in the area of key partnerships, particularly with Olivet's Global Partner the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), where Dr. Jang also serves as a Board member on the WEA North American Council. In 2010, Olivet's collaborative relationship with the WEA, which represents over 600 million Christians, produced the World Evangelical Alliance Leadership Institute, providing quality leadership development programs for WEA leaders all over the world.

The vision cast by Dr. Jang, to establish formal theological training to prepare young men and women to transform the world through Christian mission, has resulted in a school that continues to serve the Lord Jesus Christ.

Finance Course's Mid-Point Offers Challenges and Inspiration

Olivet University's MBA students involved with the the mid-point of the business college's finance class expressed their feelings as "being challenged and inspired."

The course takes students into the deeper realm of financial accounting including theory and practice designed for use in real case scenarios.  This course uses business cases extensively, designed to replicate actual business decision-making situations.  The class contents were meant to be very practical and useful for real affairs in business corporations.

"I would say studying Finance is quite a challenge to me as the level of demand is rising.  The case study approach methods are also quite fresh to me," said Helio Pereire, a first year student from Italy. "However, I am gaining useful knowledge to apply in the area of business for my future business ventures  believe that it can be used greatly for God’s purpose," continued Pereire.

Students seek to apply skills learned in proper bookkeeping and analyzing financial statements towards identifying company financial health.  In today's highly competitive and evolving business environment, decisions of great significance are expected to be made quicker then ever.  Immersing students within this environment at an earlier stage can familiarize them with reliable analysis of data and information, which are delivered at a rapid pace.

The objective of this course is to enable the participants not only to better understand, acquire, and utilize the rich information produced by these accounting systems, but also to be able to identify the information required and how to request such information. 

For more information, visit the Olivet College of Business website  http://ocb.olivetuniversity.edu.

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Drupal 8 overview

Drupal 8 beta release is approaching soon. It is estimated winter 2013.
Drupal 8 will bring a major change in Drupal and even CMS community is that it will adopts many components from the Symfony framework.

http://www.duoconsulting.com/blog/drupal-8-developer%27s-view

So in Drupal 8, you can easily use Symfony to build custom modules, and use Composer to manage components like rails Gem bundle.

So if you are a Drupal developer, start to learn Symfony right now. If you learn Symfony, you will find its core idea is inherited from Django.

Anyway, Drupal 8 + Symfony will be very powerful.

Dutchess County Will see New Educational Development

     On behalf of Wallace & Wallace LLP posted in Development on Friday, August 16, 2013.

Land originally purchased in 2003 in Dutchess County has changed hands again and finally has a development plan in place. For ten years, the Dover Knolls Development property sat unused, but Olivet Management LLC recently purchased the land in order to build a research and technology institution. The company is tied to Olivet University based in San Francisco. The property purchased includes 503 acres on the Dover development and an option to buy additional land on the other side of the development.

Before Olivet, another company bought the land, which used to house a psychiatric center. The first company who owned the property also wanted to use the property for educational purposes, but there were no colleges or universities interested at the time. The company then tried a different route and applied for state permits in order to build a residential and commercial development. Even in the span of ten years, the plan was still a long way from approval and building construction even further away. That's when Olivet stepped up and worked out a deal.

The community can now look forward to the regrowth of a dormant property. The educational facilities should also help the local community economy. Developers expect the local town will host the educational facilities and information technology center, as well as a place for research and development. In the next few years, developers want to enroll 2,500 students. Students will be housed in the community providing opportunities for retail and business growth. The plan should also create some jobs. It is expected that around 750 full-time teachers and staff will be needed.

With major development plans like this, buyers and sellers on both sides should work extensively to negotiate the terms of the deal. When big money changes hands, it is important that nothing is overlooked. Local property owners surrounding the development can also work with real estate attorneys if any issues arise with the purported used of the new development or if a dispute arises from the building plans.

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Dover Knolls site sold to Olivet Management

After a decade of uncertainty, the Dover Knolls Development property was purchased by Olivet Management LLC to create a research institution and technology hub, according to a release from Olivet.

Olivet Management, on behalf of San Francisco-based Olivet University, said the land in the Town of Dover will accommodate educational facilities, retail vendors, an information technology center and a research and development site.

“Olivet Management is pleased to have the opportunity to restore and revitalize this dormant property,” said spokeswoman Anna Oh. “We are also thankful to help contribute to the economic development of the Dover community.”

See more at: http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20130806/NEWS01/130806028/Dover-Knolls-site-sold-Olivet-Management

Correction to TMI article on Olivet University

In a meeting with representatives of Olivet University and Olivet Management late last week, this paper learned that Olivet University in San Francisco has approximately 250 on-campus students and is in its tenth year of operation. It has seven areas of specialization, forming seven colleges. They are Theology, Music, Graphic Design, Journalism, Language Education, Business and Information Technology.

Olivet Management was formed to run the properties that have been acquired with a view to expanding the university. In addition to the Dover Knolls property in the Town of Dover, Olivet Management currently manages other properties in the United States, including one in Houston, Texas.  

Olivet University presently has a business school that offers business courses in New York City. It has applied for a charter from the New York State Department of Education that would authorize it to create a new, Christian based university in the state.

Tony Chiu, a trustee of Olivet University, said the university has a five-year plan for the Dover campus that anticipates a population of 500 students in the first year, pending necessary approvals. Olivet is still in the preliminary planning stages, however, so no plans are firm. Mr. Chiu explained that funds have been promised from alumni and friends for the development of the Dover campus.

Corrections

The Olivet representatives pointed out that last week’s front page story (August 14) incorrectly inferred a connection between the university’s founder, David Jang, and the Unification Church.

Ms. Oh made it clear that Olivet’s theology is in the Presbyterian tradition and is not connected at all to the Unification Church.

Olivet also pointed out that Jang is not formally associated with the organizations listed, but the university has knowledge-sharing and internship programs in place. Jang currently serves as its international president and a professor of the seminary. 

We also identified Mr. William Wagner as president and chancellor of Olivet.  He is no longer president.  The current president is Dr. Tracy Davis. 

This paper regrets it used information found on the Internet without checking its reliability.  

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Olivet University Student-Developed Search Engine For Ministry

Olivet University's Institute of Technology, OIT, graduate students are teaming up with OIT alumni to build out a search engine for enhanced functionality and produce improved search results.  The solution involves looking at its current method of data sharing networks and tweaks the data gathering and search process to generate more relevant results. 

Olivet Institute of Technology students investigate into controlling the depth of crawling with robots.txt rules.  Other parts include parsing the content according to keywords and creating indexes with greater relevance to content as well as optimizing the index for faster search results.  Parts of the development and research will be happening during the Information Storage and Retrieval course this fall quarter.

The technique of search engine is a small piece of cloud of the search engine of Christian world. "It can contribute to web evangelism and influence the global culture in near future." Shared the developer of this search engine.

The results of this research project can contribute to web evangelism for a global audience. The trends in ministries have included increasing searches and data visibility that is more specific to targeted users.  Content ranges from photos, news, social media, and videos.  The customized search engines project is planned to be an extraordinary opportunity for research and entrepreneurial opportunities for Olivet students.

http://olivetuniversity.edu/news/articles/2013/07/08/815/olivet-university-student-developed-search-engine-for-ministry.html

Mourning for San Francisco Air crash

http://www.hngn.com/articles/7106/20130706/plane-crash-san-francisco-experts-credit-good-design-trained-flight.htm

So sad.

Pray

Fourth of July Fireworks 2013 in San Francisco

http://pinterest.com/pin/243335186089537439/

Olivet University 2013 commencement Video link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNCdJanmM3c&feature=youtu.be&a

Toefl code for Olivet University

Olivet University Language and Education School seeks ETS for Olivet University’s Toefl code as 4218

According to : 

http://www.toeflgoanywhere.org/asu-search-results#keywords=harvard&action=detail&institution=42090

Source http://olivetuniversity.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/olivet-universitys-toefl-code/

Olivet University IT summer course Information Storage and Retrieval I content early reveal

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

With the advent of Internet, the sheer amount of information has been increasing greatly, which requires automated retrieval techniques to be effective and efficient. This course covers such techniques, some of which have been evolving for the past decades and others having been around only since the introduction of the Web. The main topic areas are: analysis of text and storage of its content; ranking, query processing and retrieval models; evaluations; classification and clustering; and more contemporary issues such as social search and object search.


RELATION TO THE COLLEGE STATEMENT OF MISSION:


The course will be useful to the ministry like, a Christianity or the bible service ministry where the techniques such as server-based automatic crawling and SEO(Search Engine Optimization) using the ranking algorithm of the search engine for any marketing purpose are needed. And also to the Christian portal service ministry where search results should be provided in a short time to the users, from the various contents including text information.



COURSE OBJECTIVES:

Upon completing this course, students should have a reasonable level of confidence in:
(1) understanding the essential problems of information storage & retrieval and standard solutions
(2) building a simple search engine or a significant component of a realistic retrieval system
(3) designing a new algorithm or system by utilizing and extending existing techniques


COURSE PREREQUISITES:

The minimal requirements would be: experience in java programming, and the knowledge of data structures or algorithms.

The courses to be helpful to understand this course are: natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and statistics.


COURSE TEXTBOOKS:

Required Textbook:
Chris. D. Manning, P. Raghavan, and H. Schutze, Introduction to Information Retrieval,Cambridge University Press


COURSE SCHEDULE:

Week  Topic
Week 1 Introduction
Week 2  Indexing / Storage Structure
Week 3 Vector Space Model and Term Weighting
Week 4 Evaluation
Week 5 Relevance Feedback & Query Expansion
Week 6 Final Exam

http://oit.olivetuniversity.edu/

8 Useful business concept from Olivet College of Business

What is a US Trademark?

What are Economies of Scale?

W2 Employee versus 1099 Independent Contractor

What is a Level 5 Leader, and why Christians have an Advantage in Business

What is the 80-20 rule?

How to Apply Value-Based Pricing

What is your BHAG?

Online Marketing Overview

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http://ocb.olivetuniversity.edu/

OU Commencement is tomorrow !

Exciting..

Enjoy good food!~

OCAD Completes Class on Identity and Intro to Advertising

Olivet College of Art & Design winter quarter wrap up with great student work and reflection both online and onsite class.

Olivet University Design students choose best course ‘Identity’ taught by Maurice Wood and ‘Intro to Advertising’ taught by Anthony Lafler.

‘Identity’ class developed an identity and communications system as part of their final projects. ‘Intro to Advertising’ class introduced to advertising design and strategy, covering the basics of the design process from beginning to end.

Maurice Wood ‘Identity’ Class did final presentation at San Francisco campus.
http://ocad.olivetuniversity.edu/

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OIT Is Opening Informatio​n Storage and Retrieval Course

Automated retrieval of Information is calling for efficiency in nowadays. The ministries are in need of such techniques, too. In order to serve the ministries better, Olivet Institute of Technology expand the curriculum to offer this IR course. 

The main topics of the course are: analysis of text and storage; ranking, query processing and retrieval models; evaluations, classification and clustering and more contemporary issues such as social search and object search.

The course is useful for ministries who is using server-based automatic crawling and SEO for any marketing purpose or who is providing portal service by getting search results from various contents in a short time.

The Prerequisite Courses for this course is Data Structure, Probability and Statistics, Natural Language Processing and Java Programming.

http://oit.olivetuniversity.edu/

Ralph D Winter Library

The Ralph D Winter Library was dedicated at Olivet University on September 10, 2007 in a renaming ceremony. The library was presented in person to Dr. Ralph Winter and his wife in honor of the work he has done as one of his generation's foremost mission strategists. Dr. Winter was named one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in Time Magazine in 2005.

http://www.rdwl.org/

Olivet University Doctor of Ministry Program

Four Phase

There are four phases to the Doctor of Ministry program. Students will be assigned mentors who will work with them throughout the process. Foundational papers and project proposals are then prepared for approval before implementation. Upon completion of the project, analysis must be provided alongside a final paper and oral defense.

Phase 1

At the beginning of the first phase of the Doctor of Ministry program, the candidate will be assigned a mentor according to his or her field. The mentor is to engage with the student in discussion of future direction for the candidate's goal in the program.
The major assignment in Phase 1 is to write a spiritual autobiography. The candidate may be asked to do additional assignments that demonstrate the candidate's Biblical and theological knowledge, ministry insights, and/or writing ability.

Phase 2

Two Foundation papers are an important part of completing Phase 2 of the D. Min. process. The reading and research to complete the two foundational papers will demonstrate the candidate's comprehensive knowledge on Biblical background, historical background, theological background, and the current state of the art in the planned area of the D. Min. project.

Phase 3

In the third phase, the candidate should carry out and complete the project defined in the project proposal. The completion of this project and gathering of data is an important part of this phase.
Research should be completed by the candidate realizing that a limited sample of data will be generated for analysis and reporting. The candidate should also draft chapters, that will roughly cover the motivation for this project, background information, and the description of the project.

Phase 4

In the fourth and final phase of the Doctor of Ministry program, the candidate is to analyze the data gathered by the project and complete the Final Paper. Once the candidate successfully passes the oral defense, either with no or minor changes to make, then the candidate should coordinate with the Library to bind the papers. The papers will be published as the Candidate receives a Doctor of Ministry Degree from Olivet University.

DISSERTATION OVERVIEW

The dissertation "Final Paper" is a major piece of independent scholarly research in a chosen field of theological study, enhancing knowledge beyond the actual state of research in the given area.

Students in the Doctoral program will clearly define their topic and scope of the dissertation. The problem which needs to be solved by way of academic research, must be explicitly defined in the introduction, and the appropriate methods and logical steps to be taken.

A dissertation concisely demonstrates awareness of the current state of research on the topic as well as of the latest relevant literature. It should go from there to the argument, and not dwell at length on matters already covered satisfactorily by others.

A dissertation must show ability to precisely handle the appropriate methods in the chosen field of research. The student will work with relevant sources, and diligently document the use of primary and secondary sources.

http://www.olivetuniversity.edu/zinzendorf/program/dmin-dissertation.html

Doctoral Colloquium

The Zinzendorf School of Doctoral Studies hosts a series of colloquia each year bringing together students and faculty from around the world to meet and study. Locations for these events are hosted in different cities across the world. The gathering provides opportunity for fellow students and faculty to gather face to face in exchanging ideas. The colloquium allows the participants to form a learning community and fellowship that creates lifelong friendships.

One of the goals of the doctoral papers and presentations is to provide guided training for introducing a scholarly debate and generating interaction. Faculty and students attending the presentation are given the opportunity to interact, evaluate the abilities of the presenter, and respondingto listeners in posing relevant questions.

Any student asking to be excused from attending the colloquium and/or to be exempt from presenting a paper or report must submit a request in writing with explanations so that the Doctoral Committee can decide whether to grant the request.

Current doctoral participants will be notified on upcoming colloquia along with information for travel, lodging, and other accommodations.

http://www.olivetuniversity.edu/zinzendorf/colloquium/

Olivet University Commemcement 2013 approaching

Graduation and Commencement of Olivet University 2013 is to be held on Jun 28. The official site has already up at : http://commencement.olivetuniversity.edu/

This year's commencement speaker will feature Mr. John Langlois, World Evangelical Alliance Secretary and WEA Religious Liberty Commission Chairman. Mr. Langlois will also be the recipient of an honorary doctorate degree.

Olivet University Technology Students get Hands-on with Google Glass

Several students from the Olivet University's Institute of Technology explored the striking new Google's Glass computer headset.  The Google Glass device was seen during the Google I/O Developers Conference last month in San Francisco.  Through an OIT student's network acquaintance, a Google Glass device was available for students to experiment with.

They marveled at the construction and technology packed inside.  The lightness, simplicity and scalability of Google Glass' titanium frame, light sensor, internal memory, processor, battery, camera, microphone, WiFi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth, 12GB of usable memory are just some of the specs included on the device.

Users can speak to it through voice commands, beginning with "OK Glass," then swiping and tapping through the touchpads on the glass.  Through the device, students hope to develop building blocks of a web-based glassware. Glass apps can be built in Java, PHP, or Python programming languages.

Google has set up App Engine Software Development Kits (SDKs) for each language. The mirror API provides building blocks to build the glassware and timeline cards to display the content. The cards can be plain text, HTML, photos and video.

The futuristic wearable headgear is said to be a revolutionary step in computing and social networking. People will be able to interact with their surrounding environment in a new way.  The technology also spurns controversy and concerns on privacy.  The device spawned deep discussions on whether this new technology can redefine the industry or whether it will be a passing trend.

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