Bob Jones University

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

On June 11, 2011 the USDE met to report on the status of TRACS as an institution. Their report can be found here. Please feel free to read the entire document. There is a lot of interesting details that you can find there. There is one section I'm going to focus on because it pertains directly this website and highlights some very salient points that I've been making here for a long time. Point number 7 reads.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has just released the Actions Taken by the Board of Trustees as of June 21, 2012. This document catalogs all of the actions that board has done including granting accreditation, revoking accreditation, and the key one for BJU, granting initial candidacy status. And Bob Jones University is not mentioned anywhere in this document. 

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.

I know that many people wonder why it would be useful to break down an old document from 1995. The primary reason for doing so is the insistence by Bob Jones III that SACS is the one who has changed, and that Bob Jones University hasn't changed at all.

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.

The following is a reading comprehension pop quiz. The goal is to read the following passage and then answer a couple of questions. The test is not timed, and the answers will appear at the bottom.

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Instructions: Please read the following passage and answer the questions below.

Passage:

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.