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| Type | Private / unaccredited |
|---|---|
| Established | 1973 |
| President | Neal Weaver |
| Academic staff | 44 |
| Students | 1,100 undergraduate and graduate |
| Location | Shreveport, Louisiana, USA |
| Website | http://www.lbu.edu/ |
Louisiana Baptist University (originally called Baptist Christian University) is a conservative Christian university, founded in 1973, with the physical campus located in Shreveport, Louisiana. The school has no accreditation from any agency recognized by the US Department of Education, which makes it an unaccredited university.
LBU has an on-campus program, as well as an extensive correspondence/distance education program, which enrolls students from all over the world. LBU offers a curriculum of over two hundred on-campus courses, with approximately ten different courses made available to students each semester and lists over four hundred distance courses; mostly in subjects pertaining to the Bible and Baptist theology.
Accreditation, licensing, and approvals
On December 10, 1998, the Louisiana Board of Regents unanimously voted to deny the University an operating license for its business programs, required it to cease admitting students, and cease advertising. Students matriculated at the time were allowed until December 31, 1999 to finish their degrees. Meanwhile, on April 22, 1999, the Board exempted the University from licensing requirements under a "religious institution exemption".
LBU is one of six approved colleges and universities of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International, an organization with over 4,000 churches in the United States and several foreign countries. Students who complete their degree in missions through LBU and meet other requirements may be approved as fellowship missionaries.
Louisiana Baptist University has the "approval" of the Association of Christian Colleges and Theological Schools. ACCTS is a Christian, non-governmental agency involved in approving Christian schools.
While the school is unaccredited, the web site address contains the .edu domain. This may mislead some to think the school has some standing with US government approval. However, the US Department of Education has said, "Before the U.S. Department of Commerce created its current, strict requirements, some questionable institutions were approved to use an .edu. The current requirements allow only colleges and institutions accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to use the .edu."
The university web site lists 44 faculty, but it is unknown to what extent they are full or part-time instructors or if Louisiana Baptist employs the tenure system. Only two people on the staff are known to have earned a PhD or other terminal degree from an accredited institution. The majority of the faculty listed did graduate work from LBU itself, while even more have degrees under its previous name Baptist Christian University and Baptist Christian College.
Selected alumni
- Carl Baugh - Th.D. (2005) - author and director of the Creation Evidence Museum
- Bob Cornuke - Ph.D. (2005) - author and director of the BASE Institute
- Mal Couch - Th.D. - author and president of Tyndale Theological Seminary
- Bill Gothard - Ph.D. (2004) - director of the Institute in Basic Life Principles
- Thomas Ice - Ph.D. - author and director of the Pre-Trib Research Center
- Grant Jeffrey - M.A., Ph.D. (1999) - author and prophecy teacher
- Otis Ledbetter - Ph.D. - president of Clovis Christian Schools and a director of Focus on the Family
- Chuck Missler - Ph.D. (1999) - author
- Mike Randall - D.Lit. - president of Baptist Bible College
- Neal Weaver - D.Min - current Louisiana Baptist University president
See also
External links
- Louisiana Baptist University – Official website
- Library of Congress Doctoral Information – Information on PhD dissertations
- Credential Watch – Lists the Association of Christian Colleges and Theological Schools as suspect accrediting agencies
- The Book of Revelation: A Verse by Verse Commentary By: Dr. H. Dwayne Spearman An approved LBU dissertation for the research portion of the Ph. D degree.