Patty Arvielo School of Business and Management

Leadership

Tom Arnold, DBA, CFA, CAIA, MRICS, Dean

Message from the Dean

At Vanguard, we believe that if you are anchored in eternity, you can better manage the middle. Our mission is to pursue knowledge, cultivate character, deepen faith, and equip each student for a Spirit-empowered life of Christ-centered leadership and service. Vanguard can help you find God’s purpose for your life. Life is so much more gratifying with purpose.

There is little utility in faith unless it is put into practice. Both spiritual and intellectual growth require intentionality. Our business and communication curricula are dynamic, relevant, and faith integrated. In today’s chaotic and accelerating modern world, we are drowning in data and information, but starving for revelation and discovery.

At the Patty Arvielo School of Business and Management, we will help you put your faith into motion. We will train you to be a more insightful decision maker, a more effective communicator, to be able to appraise societal problems from multiple informed perspectives, and to develop wisdom through reverence to our Heavenly Father.

Vanguard students are not called to blend in, but to stand out. Your story matters to God and to us here at Vanguard. We will guide your career-preparedness and cultivate your formation of an effective industry and professional network. Our Spirit-filled faculty and staff will provide life-changing influence.

Gratitude precedes the presence of the Lord, and we are so grateful for our extraordinary students and your interest in joining the Vanguard community.