Posted in Belhaven on Jun 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Belhaven College is located in a wonderful neighborhood – also called Belhaven (which I point out often, was named after the College, not the other way around.) But they grew up around us over the past 125 years, and now this historic neighborhood circles our campus. They are great neighbors and we work hard to [...]
Posted in Christian Faith on Jun 28th, 2008 No Comments »
My good friend Richard Cizik was recently named to the 2008 TIME 100 list of “The World’s Most Influential People.” Rich, an ordained Evangelical Presbyterian Minister, is Vice President of Governmental Affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE). I think the world of Rich, and tell him often how much we need his clear [...]
Posted in Belhaven on Jun 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Our Governor, Haley Barbour, who was our commencement speaker a year ago, has a campaign to get Mississippians exercising, called Let’s Go Walk’n Mississippi. Did you know that walking one mile briskly in 15 minutes burns nearly as many calories as jogging the same distance in 8.5 minutes?
On the Belhaven campus we have 74,423 square feet [...]
Posted in Belhaven on Jun 24th, 2008 No Comments »
We have a marvelous group of students headed to Jackson this fall to come to school – new freshmen, transfer students, and returning students.
Belhaven also has students who work full time coming to study on the Jackson campus in the evening, participating in our accelerated programs, as well as our graduate programs. And we have [...]
Posted in Belhaven on Jun 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
For all the new students who will fly to Jackson this fall, let me share with you a technique for finding the cheapest airfare. This only works because Southwest never charges a cancellation fee when you change or cancel a flight. That fee is $100 to $150 with most other airlines.
Figure out which day you [...]
Posted in Athletics on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Today’s Clarion Ledger reported that the MS State head football coach, Sylvester Croom, will receive a $700,000 raise, to bring his total salary to $1.4 million. He is a great guy, wonderful role model, and knows his football so I’m glad for him.
But should sky-rocketing coaching salaries really be the priority of any university? A [...]
Posted in Higher Education on Jun 20th, 2008 No Comments »
There is much in the news about students unable to secure loans for school this fall.
First, Belhaven has not had one student unable to get a loan for this year. We have wonderful relationships with our lenders and do not expect loans to become a problem for Belhaven students. Our Assistant Vice President for Student [...]
Posted in World Events on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
One of Belhaven’s good friends is Cannon Andrew White, who was our Day of Learning speaker two years ago. Andrew is the pastor of St. George’s Church in Baghdad – having ministered there for over ten years (obviously before the war as well as since). He lives in London, and “commutes” to work.
He is the [...]
Posted in Roger Parrott on Jun 15th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m honored to be a third generation college president, following my grandfather – I work at the big partner’s desk my grandfather had specially made back in the 1930s when he was president of Olivet Nazarene University – and then my dad who was president of two different schools for a total of 25 years.
Around [...]
Posted in Belhaven on Jun 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Jamie Lamar in our IT department tells me that Belhaven College receives 2,100,000 emails every week ….. but only 28,000 of those are legit, and the rest are spam. Because colleges are such targets for spamers, we have a very sophisticated system that catches nearly all the spam.
I get about 350 emails a week (and [...]
Posted in Christian Faith on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve had in my office for nearly 20 years a picture of Pastor Chen, because his is one of the remarkable stories of faith I’ve ever heard. He first shared it publically in 1989 at the Lausanne Congress I was privileged to help put together in Manila. Born into to a wealthy Shanghai family in the [...]
Posted in Belhaven on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I stopped by the admissions office late this afternoon to bring our admissions counselors a copy of Tim Keller’s new book, “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism.” They are a great team, and it is always encouraging, enlightening, and fun to be with Julia, C.L., Danny, Jake, Amanda, and Suzanne – [...]
Posted in Roger Parrott on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Last week John McCain issued a challenge to Barack Obama to participate in a series of debates. The McCain camp hand delivered the letter to the Obama camp, who received it and asked, “why didn’t you just email it?”
Clearly the world of communication has shifted with a generation — not just how we communicate, but [...]