Bob Jones

We're not out to change it, we're not out to dictate that it should be something else. The Governance of the school doesn't change under the present mission.

Bob Jones III Chapel 12/07/2011

There has been a lot of talk about Bob Jones University's recent announcement to begin pursuing the idea of regional accreditation. This is over and above their current national accreditation which has already shown to be less than adequate for many graduates.

Not long ago a blog called thechancerants created a chart outlining faculty salary at Bob Jones University. The data seems pretty conclusive that BJU's pay is right at the bottom when compared to not only other schools, but also other Christian/Fundamentalist schools. It is hard to draw too many conclusions based upon the salary. Really all we know is that the faculty are paid very little.

After making an official announcement regarding BJU's decision to pursue regional accreditation there seems to be a bit of a comedy of errors happening in the administration building. First there was an infamous rant by Bob Jones III where, among other things, he insisted that regional accreditation will not change anything at BJU.

A reader of this blog pointed out the following section from John MacArthur's testimony.

PHIL: Right. So you went to college. You went to a Christian college.
JOHN: I did. My Dad wanted me to go to Bob Jones University. I didn't want to go. I wanted to play football and baseball and basketball. They didn't have any athletics.

We have been covering the ongoing story regarding Chuck Phelps being put back on the Board at Bob Jones University. If you don't know all the details you can find all of the information here.

Please Note: Bob Jones University quickly took down the revised statement about Chuck Phelps and reverted it back to the original statement. Please see below the screen cap that reflects the changes that were made. Thank you.

When Bob Jones University released their official statement regarding Chuck Phelps one thing that I pointed out was that it is the *facts* of the case that we have issues with. Bob Jones University admitted that things could have been handled and I pointed out those very things are where we have issues with Chuck Phelps on the board.

In response to the official statement put out by Bob Jones University yesterday people have been calling Chuck Phelps directly to get his side of the story. When asked whether he owes Tina Anderson an apology here was his response:

Mr. Phelps adamantly maintained that he owned [sic, recte owed] Tina no apology whatsoever.