Richard Bennett Brewer Jr. (born April 19, 1956)[citation needed] is an American academic administrator who is former ninth president of the Southern Baptist-affiliated Louisiana Christian University.
[4] Brewer doubled enrollment from 1,600 to more than 3,400 students at the South Carolina Baptist Convention-affiliated school, increased endowment support, and raised freshman-to-sophomore retention from 50 to 78 percent.
[8] In 2018, a federal lawsuit alleged that Brewer refused to hire a candidate Joshua Bonadona for football coach because of his Jewish heritage.
[13] In 2019, Assistant Professor Russell Meek resigned in protest of the failure by the Louisiana University administration to condemn misogynistic comments made by Joshua Joy Dara, a local Baptist pastor and Republican candidate for the Louisiana state Senate.
"[18] In 2015, Brewer requested and obtained an exemption to Title IX,[19] a law preventing sexual discrimination, thus allowing the Louisiana Christian University to discriminate against its students on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or receipt of abortion while still receiving federal funds.