Is this true??? Tennessee Temple is closing???

[Timotheos]

Well merging?

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2015/mar/03/glory-gonetennessee-temple-university-far-its/291216/

What is sad is that Piedmont has "merged" w/ other small Bible colleges and yet not grown all that much. In many ways, they have reduced in size.

PS-I am a grad of Piedmont

 

[Timotheos]

I guess that means FSSL will have to add Piedmont to its list of Fundie colleges. Not sure why it wasn't there in the first place.

 

[praise_yeshua]

I guess that means FSSL will have to add Piedmont to its list of Fundie colleges. Not sure why it wasn't there in the first place.

I never considered Piedmont all that "fundie". It drew some support in the local area at its prime but it suffered greatly over the years. I remember when they went "international". Have they grown any since then?

I know a few TTU grads that have got to be mad at the moment. I almost went there myself. I made the drive out to Chattanooga and just didn't sense the direction of God to pull the trigger.

 

[Ijiwaru Sensei]

I'm a TTU grad, (1984). I'm not mad. But I am sad. It has been amazing that TTU kept its doors open for as long as it did.

Someone has said that everything rises and falls on leadership. I wonder how differently it would have turned out if Temple had worked harder to gain regional accreditation back in the 90s, if it had worked harder to remain a Christian liberal arts university. better embraced the complexity of being an academic institution.

The years I spent at Temple were quite formative. I learned a great deal about the Bible, about myself, about what I could do with my life. I made some really great friends there. I met Mrs. Sensei there. We spent our first five years of marriage there. We had our first little sensei there. A lot of memories. Sad, but ultimately necessary, I suppose.

 

[Timotheos]

I guess that means FSSL will have to add Piedmont to its list of Fundie colleges. Not sure why it wasn't there in the first place.

I never considered Piedmont all that "fundie". It drew some support in the local area at its prime but it suffered greatly over the years. I remember when they went "international". Have they grown any since then?

It use to be uber fundi minus the KJV. It is less so, but they still have their fundie tendencies like all the rest. And they have not grown. They have been selling buildings and losing students. Although their Basketball team just beat Pensacola for the regional championship.

 

[FSSL]

...witnessing the continued  floccinaucinihilipilification of IFB colleges.

The 70s grand experiment of an IFB education just continues to fail.

 

[FSSL]

I guess that means FSSL will have to add Piedmont to its list of Fundie colleges. Not sure why it wasn't there in the first place.

I will do that!

 

[bruinboy]

Stayed in fundy-land too long, started to change too late.  It is really too bad in many ways.  They were one of the Big3 in the early 70's along with BJU and BBC.  Now, they are all mere shadows of themselves. Most kids today can see through the silliness embraced/taught by these and like institutions.  IMHO, this is just the first domino to fall, several more will follow before long. Some of these fundy Kawlages have stained the "Christian" landscape and held on to the cave-man mentality for too long. 

 

[labaptist]

I visited TTU in 2008 because I was considering enrolling there. I think that the reason for it's failing is this. It alienated Fundamentalists who thus didn't support TTU or send students there. Also being in the city, they couldn't expand to attract students like Falwell did with Liberty. I am surprised that they haven't considered going exclusively to distance learning since I think their internet programs have been what has kept them afloat.

 

[bruinboy]

I visited TTU in 2008 because I was considering enrolling there. I think that the reason for it's failing is this. It alienated Fundamentalists who thus didn't support TTU or send students there. Also being in the city, they couldn't expand to attract students like Falwell did with Liberty. I am surprised that they haven't considered going exclusively to distance learning since I think their internet programs have been what has kept them afloat.

TTU was in trouble way before 2008. The school was in a very seedy part of town.  In addition, fundy doesn't sell to young people very well today.  Too little change too late. 

 

[Timotheos]

Stayed in fundy-land too long, started to change too late.  It is really too bad in many ways.  They were one of the Big3 in the early 70's along with BJU and BBC.  Now, they are all mere shadows of themselves. Most kids today can see through the silliness embraced/taught by these and like institutions.  IMHO, this is just the first domino to fall, several more will follow before long. Some of these fundy Kawlages have stained the "Christian" landscape and held on to the cave-man mentality for too long.

First???  Where have you been? This is Piedmont's 3rd merger in this century!!! And with Northland going to Southern Sem., the dominoes are falling, and fast.

 

[FSSL]

Pillsbury before that...
Calvary Baptist Seminary, Lansdale PA last year...

Bob Jones is half of what it was in the 1980s...

 

[bruinboy]

Ok, I shall rephrase my comment.  This is just the first significant domino (with the possible exception of Pillsbury) to fall.  Regardless, it is just semantics. The difference with TTU is that it used to be a very big school that everyone in fundy-land recognized. I suspect BBC in Springfield or HAC to be the next on the chopping block. 
To my knowledge, there is really only one distinctly Christian University that can compete with the guvmint schools in facilities, quality of education, sports programs, financial stability, etc.  I sincerely wish there were more, but don't see the leadership required to head up such an endeavor.  Maybe one day. 

 

[praise_yeshua]

Ok, I shall rephrase my comment.  This is just the first significant domino (with the possible exception of Pillsbury) to fall.  Regardless, it is just semantics. The difference with TTU is that it used to be a very big school that everyone in fundy-land recognized. I suspect BBC in Springfield or HAC to be the next on the chopping block. 
To my knowledge, there is really only one distinctly Christian University that can compete with the guvmint schools in facilities, quality of education, sports programs, financial stability, etc.  I sincerely wish there were more, but don't see the leadership required to head up such an endeavor.  Maybe one day. 

Would that be Liberty?

 

[bruinboy]

Ok, I shall rephrase my comment.  This is just the first significant domino (with the possible exception of Pillsbury) to fall.  Regardless, it is just semantics. The difference with TTU is that it used to be a very big school that everyone in fundy-land recognized. I suspect BBC in Springfield or HAC to be the next on the chopping block. 
To my knowledge, there is really only one distinctly Christian University that can compete with the guvmint schools in facilities, quality of education, sports programs, financial stability, etc.  I sincerely wish there were more, but don't see the leadership required to head up such an endeavor.  Maybe one day. 

Would that be Liberty?

Can you think of another one? 

 

[praise_yeshua]

Ok, I shall rephrase my comment.  This is just the first significant domino (with the possible exception of Pillsbury) to fall.  Regardless, it is just semantics. The difference with TTU is that it used to be a very big school that everyone in fundy-land recognized. I suspect BBC in Springfield or HAC to be the next on the chopping block. 
To my knowledge, there is really only one distinctly Christian University that can compete with the guvmint schools in facilities, quality of education, sports programs, financial stability, etc.  I sincerely wish there were more, but don't see the leadership required to head up such an endeavor.  Maybe one day. 

Would that be Liberty?

Can you think of another one? 

True. I actually kinda of surprised they haven't decline since Sr went home to be with the Lord.

Some people would say that MUST mean something..... I'll just the let the Lord take care of all that in Eternity.

 

[rsc2a]

Notre Dame, Wheaton, Belmont, Union. Covenant, Pointa Loma, Biola, Abilene, Calvin, Baylor...

 

[Timotheos]

Pillsbury before that...
Calvary Baptist Seminary, Lansdale PA last year...

Bob Jones is half of what it was in the 1980s...

Don't forget Spurgeon Bible College. They along with Pillsbury merged w/ Piedmont.

I expect Summit University (formerly Baptist Bible College of Clark Summit, PA) and Piedmont to fold before long.

 

[FSSL]

Pillsbury before that...
Calvary Baptist Seminary, Lansdale PA last year...

Bob Jones is half of what it was in the 1980s...

Don't forget Spurgeon Bible College. They along with Pillsbury merged w/ Piedmont.

I expect Summit University (formerly Baptist Bible College of Clark Summit, PA) and Piedmont to fold before long.

With an annual average enrollment of 1,100, there you go...
This "university" label being adopted by these colleges seems to be a last ditch effort.

 

[bruinboy]

Ok, I shall rephrase my comment.  This is just the first significant domino (with the possible exception of Pillsbury) to fall.  Regardless, it is just semantics. The difference with TTU is that it used to be a very big school that everyone in fundy-land recognized. I suspect BBC in Springfield or HAC to be the next on the chopping block. 
To my knowledge, there is really only one distinctly Christian University that can compete with the guvmint schools in facilities, quality of education, sports programs, financial stability, etc.  I sincerely wish there were more, but don't see the leadership required to head up such an endeavor.  Maybe one day. 

Would that be Liberty?

Can you think of another one? 

True. I actually kinda of surprised they haven't decline since Sr went home to be with the Lord.

Some people would say that MUST mean something..... I'll just the let the Lord take care of all that in Eternity.

"Some people" say a lot of things.  The truth is the Sr. was smart enough to plan for his succession.  Jr and Jonathon are not in their positions solely due to their last name, (unlike many other places).  Both have law degrees and so far have proven themselves to be quality leaders. Sr. was a great leader and was probably the only one who could have laid the foundation for LU, but I believe it will continue to grow until they cap the campus enrollment at 18-20K as currently planned.