Educate Truth shares the following article from La Sierra University as a service to readers. NAD President, Education Director Dialog with La Sierra Campus Community By Larry Becker Executive Director, University Relations Dan Jackson, president of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, and Larry Blackmer, division vice president for education, conducted a 90-minute town…
Educate Truth shares the following excerpts from Inside Higher Ed as a service to readers. Opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Educate Truth. April 12, 2011 By Libby A. Nelson A Seventh-day Adventist university in California that ran afoul of the church for emphasizing evolution alongside creationism in biology…
La Sierra University recently sent out a letter apologizing for a manner of teaching that left the majority of the (surveyed) biology students with the perception that the university and specifically its biology department did not support the Adventist position on creation. The letter and the survey will be parsed and recommendations for rectifying the…
By Educate Truth Staff June 2010 the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) issued a letter to La Sierra University president Randal Wisbey, stating it would return for a special visit spring 2011, because of what WASC considered a threat to LSU’s institutional autonomy and academic freedom. There has been no word about exactly…
Educate Truth shares the following document La Sierra University as a service to readers. April 5, 2011 On April 4, 2011, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the Adventist Accrediting Association (AAA) Board met for its annual Spring meeting. Their main agenda was to review reports of AAA visiting teams and their recommendations for respective Seventh-day Adventist…