Comments on matters related to our worldview, because our worldview matters. Dr. Roger Parrott, President of Belhaven University, discusses higher education and culture from a Christian Worldview.
Posted in Belhaven on Jun 30th, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]