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CREATING COMMUNITY . . . Since its founding in 1992, the
mission of Regents School of Austin has been to provide a “We are a community
classical and Christian education based on and informed by of parents, students,
a Christian worldview. Students are encouraged to know, faculty, staff, alumni, and
love, and practice that which is true, good, and beautiful. grandparents ‘striving
Three words capture this mission: side by side for the
Classical. Christian. Community. faith of the gospel’
(Philippians 1:27). Our
At Jackson Galloway FGM Architects, “community” is also very name, Regents,
a part of our mission. Since our founding in 1945, we have has significant meaning
understood our mission as follows: and informs what we do
each day. The definition
JGFGM exists to enhance communities by of a ‘regent’ is ‘one who
creating quality environments. rules or administers
during the absence of
We design every school as if our children were learning a sovereign.’ Being a
there, every police and fire facility as if they supported the regent implies using the
first responders who protect our families and every village abilities God has given
hall as if it were the symbol of the civic life we share with our to you as an opportunity
own neighbors. Our projects foster community. to give God glory. We
are mandated by God
. . . A RESILIENT COMMUNITY We also understand that to be stewards, regents,
these communities can be subject to acute shocks (sudden, caretakers, cultivators
intense events such as severe storms) and chronic stresses of the culture we live
(daily or cyclical forces that weaken a community, such as that fosters human
climate change) that impact the livelihoods of the people flourishing. We are a
who live, work, study, and play there.
community of individual
As designers and stewards of the built environment, our regents making up
goal is the creation of a Resilient Community, one that this greater academic
can resist and recover from these shocks and stresses; a institution called
community where the natural environment is treasured; a Regents.”
place where the safety, health and well-being of its people is Dr. Dan Peterson
our paramount concern. JGFGM partners with our clients to Head of School
anticipate, prepare for and create a better future founded on Regents School of Austin
the creation of resilient communities.

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