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lphacrucis College (AC) is the oldest and largest Pentecostal College in Australia, and has had a long and fruitful relationship with Australian Christian Churches. With around 40,000 graduates, AC alumni have provided significant leadership and ministry to the Pentecostal church in Australia and around the world.
Alphacrucis College (AC) celebrated its 73rd Anniversary on 14th February 2021. AC alumni have provided significant leadership and ministry to the Pentecostal church in Australia and around the world. The College has been on a sustained growth trajectory for the past 20 years, and during 2019 and 2020 AC continued to grow. In this last conference period total enrolled students increased by 15% and annual revenue increased by 42%. This included over 90 candidates into AC Higher Degree Research (HDR) programs, making it one of the largest Graduate Research Schools among independent colleges in Australia. Since March 2020, AC’s Council and Executive Team have been carefully monitoring the COVID-19 situation and advice from State and Federal Governments to ensure the health and safety of AC’s community and the integrity of AC’s current operations and financial projections. Overall, the college navigated the COVID-19 pandemic with agility and creative thinking. Faculty and student support acted quickly to transition students from face-to-face to entirely online learning within a matter of weeks, as various states went into lockdown. Students have since reported a very high level of satisfaction with their learning experience during COVID. Fortunately, AC has not historically been heavily reliant on international students and in 2020 AC recorded growth in international enrolments and nearly achieved its 2020 forecast student enrolment despite the disruption of the global pandemic. The University vision still holds strong and inspires our forward progress. In 2020 the College applied to the Australian Government for University College status, which is the next stage toward becoming a University. Leadership and Structure The leadership of AC has remained stable during this conference period. Stephen and Sandra Fogarty celebrated 27 years of leadership and service to AC in January 2021. Several staff received Dedicated Service Awards, celebrating 10, 15, or 20 years with the College. AC remains closely aligned to ACC in leadership and governance. The governing body of AC is the College Council which is elected by the Members of the College at the Annual General Meeting. Pastor Michael Murphy is the Chair of the College Council. The Members of the College are the elected National and State Executive Members of ACC. The College Council members are: • Pastor Michael Murphy (Chair) • Mr Mark Burgess (Deputy Chair) • Pastor Brad Bonhomme • Dr Stephen Crouch • Prof Stephen Fogarty (President) • Mr Scott Haslem • Prof Martin Hovey • Mr David Jones • Mr Gary Lottering • Dr David Perry (Chair of Academic Board) • Assoc Prof Stuart Piggin • Prof Denise Austin (Company Secretary)
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