Bob Jones University is apologizing for racist policies that included a one-time ban on interracial dating and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.
5For 15 years, Cascade College in Portland, Ore., struggled to find the fuels that any college needs: students to pay tuition, and donors to help build an endowment. Then came the global economic meltdown, and suddenly that struggle became an impossibility.
2The Baptist approach to racism is best described as “resolutionary,” at least within the dominant white community, according to a white Baptist leader who grew up in Nigeria. “Resolutions make us feel good without doing good,” he said.
20Shippensburg University and a religious student group have settled a lawsuit over alleged violations of free speech rights.
1Oral Roberts University reached a settlement Wednesday with two former professors who sued last year, claiming they were forced out after uncovering financial and ethical wrongdoing by the school's former president and family.
2Environmentally conscious students from more than a dozen campuses across the country recently met for the first national conference organized by a student-led, Christ-centered environmental network.
0Baylor University, facing sharp criticism for paying already-admitted students to retake the SAT and try to boost their scores, said Thursday it "goofed" and would probably end the practice.
1Christian liberal arts colleges are providing vocational training as an integral part of the education offered to students, according to an international association of Christian colleges and universities.
0A former Sunni Muslim has been elected as the new president of Truett-McConnell College in Georgia. Dr. Emir Caner was voted to become the school's eighth president, making him the first former Muslim to be elected as president of a Southern Baptist college.
7The former president of Oral Roberts University, who stepped down amid allegations he misspent school funds to live in luxury, is being offered a severance package but university officials won't divulge its terms.
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