What is Bryn Athyn College Alumni and Friends?

The Bryn Athyn College Alumni and Friends was founded in 2000 to support Bryn Athyn College and its alumni.  The association is 500 members strong and growing.  Association members live in areas all across the world.

Our Goals Include

• Supporting the College by recruiting students familiar with the New Church and other qualified students who would benefit from the quality New Church education available at Bryn Athyn College:
  • We currently have no specific support mechanism for this goal but the Board is working towards this. Are you interested in helping us?
• Supporting the College in building a first class internship program:
  • The College needs further support in making our internship programs stand out as a major differentiator to students as another reason for attending Bryn Athyn College.
• Creating an infrastructure that supports the uses of our College alumni association by:
  • We are building bridges between the Alumni and Friends the College administraton
  • Providing counsel to the Board, Academy, and College.
  • We hope to eventually have a dynamic Alumni website which will keep our Alumni and Friends informed of our activities.

Article I of the Alumni Association Articles of Organization

"The Bryn Athyn College of the New Church Alumni Association shall be for the purpose of supporting the principles set forth in Article II of the Charter of the Academy of the New Church, especially for promoting education in all its various forms, publishing books and other printed matter, and supporting the Swedenborg Library.  It shall further be the purpose of this Alumni Association to support the eventual development of Bryn Athyn College into a New Church University with the highest educational standards in every field of learning, thereby contributing much of true value to the individual, the community, the Church and the word."