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Payap University Founders Day

2/16/2017

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February 16 is recalled as the founding date of Payap University. This is the date that the committee met and took action to establish an educational institution called “Payap Christian College”.  When
this was proposed to the Ministry of Higher Education [now a unit of the Ministry of Education] they had us drop the word “Christian” and use the name “Payap College” for our establishment.

This year was the 43rd anniversary of our founding, to which all past presidents and retired personnel were invited to join.  The university was honored to have the Treasurer of the Foundation of the Church of Christ in Thailand preach that day.

Going back into the past, Payap College began with the McGilvary Seminary, established in May 1889 and the McCormick School of Nursing and Midwifery, founded in 1923.  Payap College had its opening ceremony on June 22, 1974 and was elevated to university status in 1984.  It is the first private university in Thailand, and has three campuses: Kaeonawarat Campus (home of the seminary, faculty of nursing, and college of music), Mae Kao Campus (the main campus), and
Crystal Springs Campus (not used at present).

Payap University was established by the Foundation of the Church of Christ in Thailand in 1974 to manifest God’s love, faith, humanity’s reverence for God, and human-kind’s mutual support.  This is expressed in the motto, “Truth and Service”.  We strive for academic excellence and morality leading to understanding, shining forth in the truth of life and enhancement of good attitudes in service to society.

38,118 students have graduated from Payap in the past 43 years.

​[These paragraphs are from two documents prepared in time for the anniversary.]
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