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…
By Sean Pitman . Dr. Ben Carson, an innovative and very well-known pediatric neurosurgeon and author from Johns Hopkins University, is scheduled to give the commencement address for, and receive an honorary degree from, Emory University this coming Monday (Update: see a video Dr. Carson’s talk below) . Dr. Carson is a favorite commencement speaker…
By Sean Pitman . According to an article published by ADvindicate yesterday, Dr. Lee Greer, one of the main evolutionary biologists involved with the current debate over neo-Darwinism being promoted at LSU, has been fired by La Sierra University (Link). The article did not list any further details, but this may have been as a…
Reposting of an article recently published by ADvindicate: . Charles Scriven, president of Kettering College and chair of the Adventist Forum board, recently accused the Michigan Conference of shunning a La Sierra University choir. Tensions between the university and conference began in 2009 when a website published evidence the university was allowing the theory of…