Student Leadership Application Process

Leaders are change makers and culture shapers and as such there are certain expectations for all students who take on leadership roles at Ambrose. It is our hope that student leaders are shaped by their leadership experience, within this boldly Christian University, just as they contribute to shaping the experience and culture of Ambrose. 

The Student Life department locates its identity and purpose in the Mission of Ambrose University. We are focused on Jesus and Christ-likeness. We work to foster a vibrant redemptive community of grace, truth, and love that is marked by belonging and inclusion.  In this we recognize the need to live in the tension between grace, truth, and love as essential to a robust learning environment that is both academically rigorous and life giving to a diverse community. 

Student Life staff are committed to developing and training student leaders for successful service to a diverse student body.  We are committed to mentoring student leaders and supporting them in their role and in their personal lives. We invite students who want to serve alongside Student Life staff into student leadership. 

By accepting the role of Student Leader at Ambrose University, you affirm that you understand and endorse the identity, mission, and core values of the university and strive to exemplify the character of Jesus in your actions.  This includes a commitment to faith in Christ and a commitment to work in your sphere of responsibility toward the success and flourishing of Ambrose University.  

Ambrose Mission

Ambrose University prepares men and women for wise, joyful, and redemptive engagement in the church, society, and the created order through excellent Christian post-secondary education. [Formally adopted by the Board of Governors, November, 2015]

Ambrose Values

We are committed to these enduring mission-related values:

Christian Faith

• We believe that Christ is the centre of what we do. We seek to live lives devoted to serving Christ, and we pursue His will with bold confidence in His sovereign power and purposes.
• We are ecumenically minded, broadly evangelical, and rooted in the holiness traditions of the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Canada and the Church of the Nazarene.
• We believe that every person is created in the image of God and worthy of dignity and respect.
• We integrate faith and learning and anchor our teaching and research within the Christian intellectual and spiritual tradition.

From these beliefs and practices flow the rest of our institutional values:

Pursuing Excellence

• We encourage our students, faculty, and staff to be intellectually curious.
• We promote conversations about difficult issues that are marked by both courage and charity.
• We provide high-quality education as well as co-curricular experiences that prepare students for their future lives and vocations.
• We pursue excellence in all that we do. Our efforts evidence love, wisdom, thoughtfulness, knowledge, scholarship, and skill.
• We are accountable to the Government of Alberta, our accrediting bodies, and our founding denominations. We also recognize our obligation to provide students with the learning environment set forth in the Academic Calendar.

Holistic Formation

• We assert that Ambrose is a place where students develop virtues, grow in character, acquire life skills, and prepare for future vocations.
• We wrestle together with the hard questions of life and faith.
• We create intentional, holistic, formational experiences in and out of the classroom.
• We model lifelong perseverance in intellectual and spiritual formation.

Service

• We strive to integrate faith and active service to the world.
• We commit to shaping servant leaders who will honour Christ in their vocations.
• We shape culture through our scholarship, research, and artistic expression.

Community

• We believe that spiritual, personal, and academic development is best accomplished within the context of a Christian community that worships and glorifies God. 
• We collaborate to foster a welcoming, hospitable, generous, just, and truth-telling community that strives to fulfill the university’s mission.
• We seek the welfare of students, one another, and the external community

Constitution of the AMBROSE UNIVERSITY Undergraduate Students’ Council

Bylaws of the AMBROSE UNIVERSITY Undergraduate Students’ Council