Louisiana Christian University
[2][clarification needed] Baptist clergyman and educator Edwin O. Ware, Sr., is considered to have been the principal founder of the institution.
The first, a men's school founded in 1852 by the North Louisiana Baptist Convention, was located in the community of Mount Lebanon in Bienville Parish.
The women's college, founded in 1857 by the Grand Cane Association of Baptist Churches, was located in the community of Keatchie in De Soto Parish south of Shreveport.
The state convention selected an Education Commission to administer the schools, understanding that both would be succeeded by a more centrally located institution as soon as a suitable campus could be chosen.
[3] In December 2013, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) reaffirmed LC's regional accreditation after two years of warning status.
[9] On April 15, 2014, the trustees removed Aguillard as president and named Argile Smith, the associate dean of the Christian ministry of the Caskey School of Divinity, as the interim leader and began the search for a permanent successor.
[16] On December 14, 2010, the LC trustees received a $1 million contribution from an anonymous foundation to launch a divinity school on the Pineville campus.
The Cason Foundation, which donated $5 million to LC to fund the divinity school, announced that it will no longer financially support the college because of "actions of President (Joe) Aguillard which we believe to be unethical and potentially illegal.
A probe into the matter by a law firm in New Orleans claims that Aguillard had improperly diverted some $60,000 in divinity school donations to LC projects in Tanzania, Africa.
One of the dissenting votes was cast by Tony Perkins, a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and the president of the Family Research Council.
Perkins subsequently questioned in an email to the Reverend Kris Chenier, chair of the special panel and the pastor of the Trinity Heights Baptist Church in Shreveport, why the committee had implied that the vote to clear Aguillard had been unanimous rather than by the one-vote margin.
[26] LCU maintains a close relationship with Alliance Defending Freedom, a designated hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has referred to same-sex marriage as a public health crisis and advocates for the sterilization of transgender individuals.
[27] During the 2021–2022 school year, LCU held multiple events featuring ADF Regional Director Shannon Kendrick, as well as senior counsel Gregory S.
[33] Louisiana Christian University supports the teaching of intelligent design, a pseudo-scientific theory on the origin of life.
Wade Warren, who holds the Cavanaugh Chair in Biology, has endorsed the inclusion of language in educational standards that cast doubt on the validity of Darwin's theory of evolution.
Moreover, Warren has publicly argued that "the evidence today is suggesting that the Darwinian model is failing and that life itself was intentionally designed.
"[34] In late 2019, Ken Ham, the founder of Answers in Genesis was scheduled to speak at the annual Values and Ethics Conference.
[36] In 2007, Louisiana College announced plans for a law school named for Judge Paul Pressler, a leading figure in the Southern Baptist Convention, which would open in 2009.
[37][38] The proposed school was unable to meet its fundraising goals or receive accreditation to award law degrees, and never opened.
However, unknown to most LCU students, the original marriage swing was broken in the spring semester of the 2010–2011 school year and replaced by a replica.
On the first night of this weekend, the male students of LCU would collect toilet paper and use it to TP the trees immediately in front of Cottingham Hall.
The practice ceased shortly after current LCU president Rick Brewer took leadership of the school, lending credence to rumors that he disapproves of this much-beloved tradition.
The echo spot is the name given to a place near Alexandria Hall that acts like a natural megaphone for voices, jokes, music, etc.
