50% of the teaching staff having their terminal degrees by 2011. This was reached and maintained until 2018-2020, where, due to retirements of long-time serving staff and transfers elsewhere, this has dropped below the target. As of June 2021, 34% of the full time teaching staff have terminal degrees and 36% have masters' degree. Of the remaining staff, all have a minimum of an honours degree or a CA (SA), with many pursuing further studies. Until 1952, the library at Helderberg College was housed on the top floor of the Administration Building, from where it was moved to the more spacious location on the ground floor of Anderson Hall. The book holdings increased from 4,000 in 1936 to 7,000 in 1947. In 1981, the Pieter Wessels Library, occupying all three floors in the renovated Meade House, was opened officially. While K. B. Cronjé was director of library services, book holdings topped 50,000, besides many other materials such as periodicals, audiotapes and teaching materials. In the basement are the E. G. White Research Centre and the Heritage Room which opened in 1983 with Dr. I. J. van Zyl as director. Through the SABINET link-up with all the major libraries in South Africa, the Pieter Wessels Library has been an invaluable asset to staff and students and users of these other libraries. The holdings have exceeded the 90 000 mark. On 20 October 2017, Helderberg College of Higher Education celebrated the 125th year of its establishment. Campus life Campus ministries Since it is a Seventh-day Adventist College, a major objective is to "make religion a personal experience in the life of each student, a practical religion which finds expression in the standards of conduct, in the attitudes and ideals, and in the development of a sense of individual responsibility for the betterment of mankind" (Principal M. P. Robison, College Clarion, 1932). While the forms of spiritual activity have varied over the course of the years, the basic sources of spiritual nourishment have remained surprisingly constant – worship services in church, dormitory and chapel, and the quiet times of personal meditation and prayer. However, spiritual wholeness also requires the outward swing of the pendulum – from receiving to sharing. Helderberg students have never been at a loss for ways to serve. From the establishment of the Missionary Volunteer Society in the early days of Claremont Union College to the present, students have gained