News from Around the MembershipNew President Houston Baptist University’s (TX) new president is Robert B. Sloan, Jr., who formerly served as president and chancellor of Baylor University (TX). He is the third president that HBU has had in its 46-year history. Building Boom Taylor University – Fort Wayne (IN) finished construction in July on a new $2.3 million men’s residence hall, Ramseyer Hall. The two-story residence hall will house 52 students in six- and four-person suites. Suites are joined by a common living room, private bath, and small kitchenette.
Corban College (OR) has opened a new $3.5 million as-yet-unnamed residence hall to house 110 students. The three-story dorm was designed to fit into its natural hillside surroundings. It features a stone façade and a two-story stone fireplace. Maple accents, large windows and colorful tiles are used inside. Music students welcomed the new dorm’s two insulated practice rooms, a feature not found in any other residence halls on campus.
Southeastern University (FL) was featured in an April 2006 article, “Born Again: The Rebirth of a Christian University Campus” in College Planning and Management. The article highlighted Southeastern’s efforts to upgrade and unify the campus architecturally and its concurrent enrollment growth. The Northwestern College (IA) Red Raider football team opened its 2006 season in a revamped De Valois Stadium with the completion of a $630,000 project providing new, expanded seating. This follows a 2004 project installing synthetic FieldTurf and a new scoreboard and the 2003 addition of an 8-lane polyurethane track. The Chicago Tribune reports that Wheaton College (IL) has gone on a property-buying spree in the last year, paying more than $3.2 million for three properties in the neighborhood around the college. The College has bought two houses neighboring the campus. In August 2006, Wheaton paid $2.4 million for the President-University apartment complex, a three-building, 32-unit development that was built in 1963. According to the Tribune, those apartments, which students will begin occupying this fall, will replace the housing the brick, barracks-style Saint and Elliot student dormitories built in the late 1940s. Atlantic Baptist joins with Oxford Atlantic Baptist University (New Brunswick) has extended its agreement with Oxford University, allowing ABU students to study as associate students at Regent’s Park College, the Baptist college of Oxford University, and have access to the resources of Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Northwestern’s Actuarial Science Program The Society of Actuaries has moved the actuarial science program at Northwestern College (IA) to “advanced” standing, meaning that Northwestern’s curriculum covers all topics on the first two actuarial exams plus at least twelve semester hours of topics on the next two tests. Only 84 college programs nationally are classified as advanced. Other Recent News EventsNATIONAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FAIRS Fair Registration Link (Institutions Only) Listen to the 2010 Conference Speakers |
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