In 1953, LCU alumnus Simon W. Tudor of Pineville donated twenty-seven acres of additional land to the college.
To raise money for a science center, religious education building, and auditorium, Guinn launched a $2 million fundraising operation through the Louisiana Baptist Convention, the first statewide campaign in the history of Southern Baptists to raise funds for Christian higher education.
It contains classroom space for the religion department, the 300-seat Frances S. Bolton Chapel, and the 1,800-seat Guinn Auditorium, where student assemblies are held.
[7][8] The Dr. G. Earl Guinn Endowed Forensic Scholarship is awarded to a student in the debate squad.
In a 2001 address to a group called "Mainstream Southern Baptists", he claimed that church donations had declined under conservative control and proclaimed: ...The human hunger for freedom cannot be suppressed forever.
Apparently those who hatched the scheme to take control of the [national and state] convention and force creedal conformity upon the constituency underestimated the importance of soul freedom in Baptist experience and history.
Baptist universities and colleges in a number of states have broken away in the interest of freedom and excellence in education.
... An unknown number of Baptists, including pastors, embarrassed and denied opportunity to serve, have gone to other denominations.