Agee to retire as college association’s executive director
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Bob R. Agee, executive director of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities, has announced his retirement, effective with the IABCU’s June 3-5 annual meeting or “as soon thereafter as a new executive director can be named.”
Association of Baptist colleges changes name
CHARLESTON, S.C. (BP)--Members of the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools (ASBCS) voted June 5 to change the name of the 51-member organization to the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities (IABCU). Association leaders say the change expresses the group’s vision and desire to expand its mission and ministry to a more global focus.
Calif. university exec to lead Baptist college association
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (BP)—-Ron Ellis, president of California Baptist University, has been named board chairman of the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools’ 16-member board of directors for 2005-06.
Baptist college leaders explore integrating faith & learning
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (BP)--Top administrators of the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools explored opportunities for integrating faith and learning during a three-day annual meeting in Franklin, Tenn.
SBC seminaries drop membership, Baptist college group told at meeting
WACO, Texas (BP)–A report on a decision by the six Southern Baptist Convention seminaries not to renew their membership in the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools was relayed to the association during its annual meeting June 5-9 in Waco, Texas. “My greatest disappointment this year,” Bob Agee, ASBCS executive director, said, “has been […]
Baptist college enrollment up for 15th consecutive year
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Enrollment at the 50 colleges and universities which maintain paid membership in the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools (ASBCS), showed an overall increase for the fall semester for the 15th consecutive year, according to figures released to the ASBCS.
New Cooperative Program video: Missionaries are ‘real people’
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--"A Mission You Share," a videotape designed to introduce Southern Baptists to individual missionaries supported by Cooperative Program gifts, was premiered before SBC agency and state Baptist convention leaders in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 18.