The President of Houston Baptist College introduced Wednesday that the varsity has modified its identify to Houston Christian College.
“Houston Christian College extra precisely epitomizes our pupil physique and displays the school, workers, alumni, and neighborhood we serve,” Dr. Robert B. Sloan, the varsity’s president, mentioned in a statement.
“We’re dedicated to being a distinctively Christian college that welcomes all Christians to learn from our glorious educational applications,” he added. “This historic college appeals to folks all throughout the spectrum of Christian denominational life, and this new identify clarifies who we’re.”
The identify change is a part of the HCU’s progress marketing campaign to develop its residential campus to 4,200 college students and on-line campus to five,800 college students.
“We need to prolong the affect of our mission whereas additionally interesting to as many college students as doable,” Dr. Sloan mentioned.
He added that the college had thought-about altering its identify a number of occasions previously 16 years, nevertheless it was solely previously two years that the College job drive of trustees got here to a choice and formally accepted the identify change. The change was accepted on Could 17, 2022.
HCU may also companion with Carnegie, a number one greater schooling advertising and marketing and enrollment technique agency, “to take our model of conventional Christian greater schooling to the following technology of scholars,” Dr. Sloan mentioned.
Dr. Sloan asserted that the HCU’s core convictions and historic Christian commitments is not going to change regardless of the identify change.
“We consider that genuine and devoted Christian greater schooling, rooted in a scriptural worldview, is ever extra vital in a fractured society in want of reconciliation, hope, and therapeutic,” Dr. Sloan mentioned.
“By altering to Houston Christian College, we’re striving to be even clearer about our convictions. We’re dedicated to Jesus Christ. We’re dedicated to the Scriptures. We’re dedicated to the Gospel and its energy to attract all folks to Christ. And we’re dedicated to being ‘salt and lightweight’ on the earth,’ he added.
HCU was initially launched in 1960 as Houston Baptist Faculty and was later renamed Houston Baptist College in 1973.
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