# New Saint Andrews College A small Reformed classical-Christian liberal-arts college founded in 1994 in Moscow, Idaho, as the higher-education arm of the [[Douglas Wilson]] / [[Christ Church Moscow]] / [[CREC]] ecosystem. NSA offers a four-year B.A. in Liberal Arts and Culture, plus graduate programs in classical Christian studies, theology, and education; enrollment is small (under 200 undergraduate as of recent years); the curriculum is built around a great-books-plus-Reformed-theology core and explicitly trains students for [[Christian Nationalism]] cultural-takeover work in education, ministry, and journalism. The college is regionally accredited by ACCS-affiliate accreditors but has positioned itself outside the mainstream evangelical higher-education infrastructure. NSA's strategic significance is **disproportionate to its size**. The college operates as the **upper-pipeline** of the Moscow cluster's multigenerational program: Logos School and other [[ACCS]]-affiliated K–12 schools feed into NSA, and NSA graduates feed into ACCS-school teaching positions, CREC pastoral ministry, classical-Christian school administration, [[Canon Press]] editorial work, and increasingly into political and policy positions in the broader CN coalition. The college is a key producer of the **classical-Christian schoolteacher class** that has been the rate-limiting input for the rapid expansion of ACCS-network schools nationally. Tuition is intentionally low (in the $10K-range mid-2020s), made possible by the deep volunteerism and donor base of the Moscow cluster. For the Right Wing KB, NSA is the **higher-education node** of the Reformed-Theonomic strain in the [[Christian Nationalism Ecosystem]]. Its analog in the broader CN coalition is [[Patrick Henry College]] (broader-evangelical version), [[Hillsdale College]] (more political-theory, secular-conservative-with-religious-overlap), and [[Liberty University]] (mass-market dispensationalist-evangelical). Each of these institutions occupies a different niche in the educational pipeline; NSA's niche is the most theologically-rigorous, the smallest, and arguably the most strategically-leveraged for the multigenerational cultural-takeover program. ## Founding (1994) NSA was founded in **1994** by [[Douglas Wilson]] and other [[Christ Church Moscow]] leaders as the higher-education capstone of the Moscow cluster. The founding vision was explicit: create a classical liberal-arts college rooted in Reformed-Christian theology that would train leaders for the "mere Christendom" project — graduates who could teach in ACCS schools, pastor CREC churches, write for [[Canon Press]], and eventually hold positions of cultural and political influence. The college opened with a handful of students in downtown Moscow and has remained deliberately small. Wilson's approach to higher education rejects the growth-and-endowment model of mainstream universities in favor of a **low-cost, high-intensity, community-embedded** model. ## Accreditation NSA received accreditation through the **Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS)** — a national accreditor recognized by the [[U.S. Department of Education]] that specializes in Christian institutions. TRACS accreditation gives NSA's degrees federal financial-aid eligibility and transfer recognition, though TRACS-accredited institutions are generally regarded as less prestigious than those accredited by the six regional accrediting bodies. NSA has not pursued regional accreditation. ## Programs and Curriculum **Undergraduate:** The primary program is the **B.A. in Liberal Arts and Culture** — a great-books curriculum structured around the classical Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) with Latin and Greek language requirements, extensive primary-text reading (Homer, Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Calvin, the American Founders), theological integration throughout, and senior thesis. The program is intentionally rigorous and intentionally narrow — there are no majors in business, education, or professional fields. **Graduate:** NSA offers master's programs in **Classical Christian Studies**, **Theology**, and **Trinitarian Theology and Culture** — small cohort programs that produce scholars and teachers for the ACCS network and CREC institutional ecosystem. ## Enrollment and Tuition Current undergraduate enrollment is approximately **150–200 students** — deliberately small. Students are overwhelmingly drawn from ACCS schools, CREC-affiliated homeschool families, and the broader Reformed-classical-Christian education world. Many students are children of families who relocated to Moscow specifically for the ecosystem. Tuition is approximately **$13,000–$15,000 per year** (mid-2020s) — substantially below the cost of comparable small liberal-arts colleges. The low tuition is made possible by the Christ Church community's volunteer labor, donor support, and the college's small physical footprint (downtown Moscow buildings rather than a traditional campus). ## Campus and the Moscow Downtown Presence NSA operates from a cluster of buildings in **downtown Moscow** — a deliberate choice that integrates the college into the town's commercial center rather than isolating it on a suburban campus. The downtown presence is part of the Moscow cluster's broader community-embedding strategy: NSA students live in the community, shop at Moscow businesses (many owned by Christ Church members), and participate in town life. Recent years have seen campus expansion with new classroom and administrative buildings in the downtown core. ## Faculty Cross-Pollination NSA's faculty is deeply cross-pollinated with the other Moscow-cluster institutions. Faculty members often simultaneously teach at NSA, preach or hold leadership positions at [[Christ Church Moscow]], publish through [[Canon Press]], and contribute to Wilson's media operation. This cross-pollination creates an unusually integrated intellectual community but also raises concerns about intellectual diversity — faculty are almost exclusively drawn from the CREC theological tradition. ## The Classical Christian College "Renaissance" NSA is the most established of a small wave of **classical-Christian colleges** that have emerged in the 2020s, including **New College Franklin** (Franklin, Tennessee), **Wyoming Catholic College** (Lander, Wyoming), and a few others. NSA's model — small, great-books, low-tuition, community-embedded, theologically-committed — has influenced these newer institutions, though each has its own denominational and pedagogical distinctives. ## KB Significance NSA is the **higher-education node** of the Moscow cluster and the most strategically-leveraged educational institution in the Reformed-Theonomic strain of the [[Christian Nationalism Ecosystem]]. Its significance is disproportionate to its size because of its **pipeline function**: NSA produces the teachers, pastors, writers, and administrators who staff the ACCS network's 300+ schools, the CREC's 120+ churches, Canon Press's editorial operation, and the broader Moscow ecosystem's expansion. Each NSA graduate who takes a teaching position at an ACCS school becomes a multiplier — training the next generation of students who may themselves attend NSA. The multigenerational compound-interest logic is explicit and deliberate. ## See Also - [[Christ Church Moscow]] - [[Douglas Wilson]] - [[Logos School]] - [[CREC]] - [[Canon Press]] - [[Christian Nationalism Ecosystem]]