by Sean Pitman . It has recently come to my attention that La Sierra University has quietly taken the chairmanship of the biology department away from Dr. Lee Grismer and given it to Dr. John Perumal (not updated on LSU’s website until after October 17). From the church’s perspective, this certainly is an improvement since…
Excerpts from an article by Mark Kellner in Adventist News: La Sierra University, a Seventh-day Adventist-owned educational institution in Riverside, California, received a three-year accreditation through 2016, following a vote by the Adventist Accrediting Association (AAA) board, meeting Wednesday, October 9, in Silver Spring, Maryland. The maximum term granted for accreditation is five years, Lisa…
by: Sean Pitman I have it on good authority that the Adventist Accrediting Association plans to approve accreditation for La Sierra University at its October 9, 2013 meeting (as per the recommendation of its review team that conducted a “Focused Visit” to La Sierra University from April 16-18, 2013). The argument is that LSU…
From the Adventist Review: Still under review is La Sierra’s accreditation by the Adventist Accrediting Association, or AAA, associated with the General Conference’s Education Department. AAA is reviewing its endorsement of La Sierra, an approval that is important within the Seventh-day Adventist community and may be linked to church financial aid to the university. According…
By Sean Pitman . It has just come to my attention that La Sierra University has taken on a new evolutionary biologist. As of this month LSU signed on Raul Diaz as an assistant biology professor. Loma Linda University has also taken on Diaz as an adjunct assistant professor in their department for perinatal biology.…