Subscribe to Christianity Today
Subscribe to Christianity Today
Donate to Christianity Today
November 23, 2009
Free Newsletters:
RSS Feeds | Audio | Twitter

Home > 2006 > May (Web-only)Christianity Today, May (Web-only), 2006  |   |  
Shakeup at Patrick Henry College
New president and academic dean announced after 5 of school's 16 faculty quit in protest.




ADVERTISEMENT
Professors to leave Patrick Henry (Leesburg Today, Va., Mar. 23)

Earlier media coverage of Patrick Henry College includes:

God and country | A college that trains young Christians to be politicians. (The New Yorker, June 27, 2005)
The students of Patrick Henry College | Higher education for the Christian Right in the Evangelical Ivy League (On Point, NPR, Apr. 19, 2006)
Divide on doctrine fuels fight between Va. college, ousted clerk | Jeremy Hunley was forced to resign from Patrick Henry College because his belief that baptism is necessary for salvation contradicted school doctrine (The Washington Post, Aug. 8, 2005)
Educating America's Christian Right (BBC, Mar. 2, 2005)
College for the home-schooled is shaping leaders for the Right (The New York Times, Mar. 8, 2004)
A curriculum of faith (Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, PBS, Apr. 27, 2001)

Earlier Christianity Today coverage of Patrick Henry includes:

Arguing for God | Christian college debaters hope to change the world—but first to beat the competition (Apr. 21, 2006)
Weblog: The New York Times Examines a Tech School for Conservative Politics | Patrick Henry College is still small and unaccredited, but is becoming increasingly prominent in Washington (Mar. 8, 2004)
Weblog: Patrick Henry College Gains Pre-Accreditation | School rewrites Statement of Biblical Worldview (Nov. 15, 2002)
Christian College Denied Accreditation | Agency troubled that Patrick Henry College teaches creationism in biology classes (July 1, 2002)
Give Us Liberty | Secular educators have it backward: Faith statements promote academic freedom. A Christianity Today editorial (July 1, 2002)
Weblog: Accreditor Says Creationism Mandate Violates Academic Freedom | Patrick Henry College denied accreditation because of creationism (May 15,2002)

The Patrick Henry College website has more information about the new president and academic dean.

The anonymous SaveRoot.com site calls on students to act on behalf of the departing professors.

Several Patrick Henry students operate blogs.

share this pageshare this page



E-mail this pageWrite CTPrint this articlePost a comment





  


Subscribe to Christianity Today and get 3 free trial issues. No credit card required.

Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Offer valid in U.S. only.

If you decide you want to keep Christianity Today coming, honor your invoice for just $19.95 and receive nine more issues, a full year in all. If not, simply write "cancel" across the invoice and return it. The three trial issues are yours to keep, regardless.


Click here for international orders2-for-1 Gifts!

[Reader Reviews]
Average User Rating: Not rated

The allotted time for commenting has ended.

sponsors 








[Browse More Christianity Today]

Search






















Search by Name
Or use Advanced Search to search by program, region, cost, affiliation, enrollment, more!

Search by:





Books & Culture
Christianity Today
Church Law & Tax Report
Church Finance Today
Leadership Journal
Men of Integrity
Outcomes
Kyria.com
Your Church
ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
PreachingToday.com