Academics and Staff
The university employs some fifty people as faculty and staff. The majority of the faculty list graduate degrees from LBU, including its previous names, Baptist Christian University and Baptist Christian College. The majority of the faculty hold terminal degrees from LBU, which the institution says reflects the school's "strong stance on inspiration of the scriptures, doctrinal purity and pre-millennialism."
LBU will accept a limited amount of three types of non-traditional credit: experiential learning credits, military experience credits, and credit by examination. Also by purchasing and reading a book by Chuck Missler and writing a short paper, one can receive college credit from Louisiana Baptist University. Assist News quoted Missler as explaining that LBU "has offered course credits for those that do a 'reflective paper' on what they got out of it". In addition to the three semester hours credit, people "also get a certificate for it." According to Missler's website, the university allows students to transfer "credits" from Missler's Koinonia Institute for "up to half of the credit hour requirements for a graduate degree" at Louisiana Baptist University. LBU has developed a comprehensive Music degree, the coursework includes, History of Music, Hymns, and instrumental performance.
The current president of LBU is Neal Weaver who has B.A., M.Th. and Th.D. degrees from Eastern Baptist Institute, a D.Min. degree from Baptist Christian University and a Ph.D. from Holy Trinity Seminary. The Executive Vice President is Sandra Cory who has a B.A. from Baptist Christian College, an M.A. from North Tennessee Bible Institute and a D.R.E. degree from Holy Trinity Seminary. The Provost is James Combs who has a B.A. from Calvary Bible College, a B.D. degree from Bible Baptist Seminary, an M.A. from Jackson College, a D.Min. from Baptist Christian University, a Doctorate of Divinity from California Graduate School of Theology and a Litt.D. from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
Read more about this topic: Louisiana Baptist University
Famous quotes containing the words academics and/or staff:
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)
“... all my letters are read. I like that. I usually put something in there that I would like the staff to see. If some of the staff are lazy and choose not to read the mail, I usually write on the envelope “Legal Mail.” This way it will surely be read. It’s important that we educate everybody as we go along.”
—Jean Gump, U.S. pacifist. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 2, section 10, by Studs Terkel (1988)