YMCA College
| YMCA College | |
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| founding | 1928 |
| address |
Hugo-Preuss-Strasse 40 |
| place | Kassel Bad Wilhelmshöhe |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '13 " N , 9 ° 24' 52" E |
| carrier | YMCA General Association in Germany |
| management | Ursel Luh-Maier |
| Website | www.cvjm-kolleg.de |
The CVJM-Kolleg in Kassel is a training center of the CVJM-Gesamtverband in Deutschland eV
activity
It is a training and further education institute for Christian youth work and a private technical school for theology and social education . It is supposed to enable the missionary-diaconal service in YMCA, churches and Christian works through professional qualification and holistic personality development. Theological knowledge and pedagogical skills are to be imparted, but spiritual, personal and social skills are also promoted. The concept is integrative, theology and social affairs, learning and life as well as theory and practice are linked. The basis of the work of the YMCA college is the Paris base , which underlies all YMCA work.
Degree and qualification
The three-year training, which is preceded by a one-year preliminary internship and followed by a year of recognition, qualifies you for full-time service thanks to its scientific foundation and practical relevance. The relationship to practice is established through twelve weeks of various internships. Final job titles are YMCA secretary, youth officer, youth deacon, and community educator. The graduates are active in youth work, community education, educational work, preaching, pastoral care and counseling, and diakonia.
Until 2009, the YMCA college was the only training facility of the YMCA in Germany. Since then there has also been the CVJM University , which is also based in Kassel.
history
On October 1st, 1920, a special class “secretary school” was set up at the Johanneum Evangelist School in Wuppertal . On October 1st, 1928, a newly built secretary school in Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, Im Druseltal 8, opened and began with three teachers and twelve students. In autumn 1939 the school was confiscated and used, among other things, as a nursing home. After the war, in autumn 1946, the first post-war course began with new students in an emergency shelter in Rengshausen and resumed school operations. In 1958, an extension with a large classroom and six double rooms for schoolchildren was put into operation in Rengshausen, which offers more space for schoolchildren. Nine years later, the previously two-year theoretical training was extended to three years.
After 24 years of school operation in the emergency accommodation in Rengshausen, the YMCA Association in Germany acquired on October 1, 1970 in Hugo-Preuß-Str. 40/42 in Kassel a property of 13,500 m² with two buildings that were used as a school and a dormitory. The number of students then rose steadily. In the spring of 1973 women were admitted to the secretary school for the first time and in July of the same year the YMCA secretary school was officially recognized as a private technical school for social education.
In 1976 and 1996, various construction projects were implemented: a new school building, an extension to the dormitory and an extension to the school wing were put into operation. In October 1997 the YMCA secretary school and the training work in the YMCA collective association were combined to form the “YMCA college, training and further education institute for Christian youth work and private technical school for social pedagogy” .
In 2000, a new conference center was opened on the campus of the YMCA, where advanced training courses and distance learning seminars take place. After this new building, the student dormitory was renovated two years later; Since then the students have been living in groups of five to six people with their own kitchen-cum-living room.
In September 2002, the first class of course III “Theology part-time” began. The teaching and learning platform e-learning was used for the first time. In October, the main committee of the YMCA Association made the first decision to develop the YMCA college into a university. After seven years of planning, this project could be implemented and the accreditation was successful. In addition to the YMCA college, the newly founded “International YMCA University” started teaching in September 2009.