A small campus where good teaching is highlighted Waterloo Lutheran University is a fully-accredited liberal arts institution offering undergraduate and graduate programs for young men and women from Canada and abroad. The University seeks to provide a first-class education in a Christian environment for all who qualify for admission. -WLU is a member of the National Conference of Canadian Universities and Colleges and the Association of Commonwealth Universities. It is affiliated with the Eastern Canada Synod, Lutheran Church in America, and is the province's sole remaining church-related university. As such, it is not part of the provincially-supported university group, although it does receive a provincial grant in lieu of monies originally received from the federal government. -Waterloo Lutheran University is the only Lutheran university in Canada and receives grants each year from the Eastern Canada Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, to which it is related. It is one of 21 universities of the LCA and one of 50 universities and colleges related to the various Lutheran church bodies in North America. -Waterloo University College, the arts and science faculty, offers programs leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science. The School of Business and Economics operates within the college. -The Council of Graduate Studies in Arts offers Masters of Arts degrees in geography, romance languages, history, and psychology. -Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, the graduate faculty of theology, grants the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. While primarily preparing pastors for the Lutheran Church, candidates for the ministry of other churches are invited to enroll and a number do so each year. -The Graduate School of Social Work, the newest school on campus, awards the Master of Social Work degree after two-years of study beyond the B.A. level. The school, the ninth in Canada, accepted its first students in the fall of 1966. -Distinguished businessmen from developing nations around the world come to campus for a special nine-month course in business, conducted by the School of Business and Economics. The course, conceived on this campus, is underwritten by Canada's External Aid office and is unique in Canada. -The university was established in 1911 when the seminary was founded in a converted house on the present campus site. A secondary school established in 1914 quickly developed into Waterloo College of Arts, which was affiliated with the University of Western Ontario from 1925 to 1960. Degree granting powers were conferred upon the university in 1960. -Undergraduate enrolment has been limited by the Board of Governors to 2,400 to provide good opportunities for faculty-student dialogue on a small campus where people can be known as individuals. Students come from all parts of Canada, as well as from the United States and overseas. The student body is interdenominational. The United Church is the single largest denomination represented among students. Others are Anglican, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Jewish. -The number of full-time faculty exceeds 135. There are a number of part-time lecturers and laboratory assistants. Waterloo Lutheran is primarily a teaching institution and department heads and senior faculty members teach at all levels. Nearly one-half of the faculty members hold earned doctorates. -Affiliated with WLU is the Mennonite Brethren College of Arts, Winnipeg. The college, noted for its music courses, was founded in 1944 and affiliated with the university in 1961. Many students transfer from it, concluding their undergraduate work at WLU. -Canada's first chapter of the International Geography Honour Society was organized at WLU in 1967. Membership is open to all students in the third and fourth years of honours geography. -Several students in Near Eastern Studies took part in one of the longest field trips in Canadian undergraduate history — 6,000 miles to the west bank of the Jordan River — during the summer of 1968. They took supervisory roles in the excavation of the ancient city of Dier Dibwan, destroyed in 2,000 B.C. Further journeys to the area are planned.