by Sean Pitman . La Sierra University is about to vote on proposed bylaw changes that appear to allow it to distance itself from as much church influence as had previously been in place with regard to the governance of the school. It appears that such measures are being considered due to the recent pressures…
by Sean Pitman . The following news release was sent to my E-mail account this afternoon: “La Sierra University Responds to False Charges by Independent Websites” First off, the argument that Dr. Diaz is a “baptized member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church” is effectively irrelevant to the point of concern. After all, it…
by Sean Pitman . It looks as if La Sierra University is between a rock and a hard place. Not only has LSU just hired a new evolutionary biologist, Dr. Raul Diaz (who believes in and promotes life’s existence and evolution on this planet over hundreds of millions of years), the team from the Western…
It is no secret that many Adventist schools are in serious financial trouble. Many have actually failed and have had to close their doors in recent years. What can be done to substantively address this very serious problem? Take Harvard University, for example. In 2011 Harvard’s endowment program earned $4.4 billion dollars, reaching a total…
By Sean Pitman . For those who aren’t already aware, Southern Adventist University opened up its new long anticipated Origins Exhibit on April 15, 2012. It took over four years of planning and some $300,000 in donations to produce the first two of three phases of the project: 1) hire professors who had origins…