Shakeup at Patrick Henry College
New president and academic dean announced after 5 of school's 16 faculty quit in protest.
Sheryl Henderson Blunt in Purcellville, Va. | posted 5/15/2006 12:00AM
5 of 5
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 worldbut 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 .
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