Liberty has a small tie to UW in the fact that their president paid his pool boy to fuck his wife while he watched and we once had a pool boy we paid to fuck us
Don’t feel bad for Oregon… don’t feel bad for Oregon… don’t feel bad for Oregon… don’t you do it…. But I can’t help it… it’s the biggest insult to injury! Kick them while they are down… don’t do it.. you’re better than that…. No I am not…
Nickname Liberty Flames and Lady Flames Sporting affiliations NCAA Division I FBS – C-USA, Big East Conference, Coastal Collegiate Sports Association Mascot Sparky the Eagle Website www.liberty.edu
Liberty University (LU) is a private evangelical Christian[6] university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (Southern Baptist Convention). Founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns, Liberty is among the world's largest Christian universities and the largest private non-profit universities in the United States by total student enrollment.[7][8] Most of its enrollment is in online courses;[9][10] in 2020, the university enrolled about 15,000 in its residential program and 80,000 online.[11][12]
Liberty University consists of 17 colleges, including a school of osteopathic medicine, a school of law, and a seminary.[13][14] Liberty's athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Liberty Flames. Their athletics program joined Conference USA as a full member in 2023.[15]
Liberty, whose website[16] and officials[17] speak of "training Champions for Christ", requires undergraduate students to take three Evangelical Bible-studies classes.[18] The university's honor code, called the "Liberty Way", prohibits premarital sex, cohabitation, any kind of romantic relationship between members of the same sex,[19] and alcohol use.[20][21]
Described as a "bastion of the Christian right", the university played a prominent role in Republican politics under Falwell and his son and successor Jerry Falwell Jr.;[22] in 2021, Liberty interim president Jerry Prevo said getting conservative candidates elected to office was "one of our main goals".[23]
History
Jerry Falwell, evangelist and leader of the Moral Majority The school was founded as Lynchburg Baptist College[24] in 1971 by televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns. Falwell, already a pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church, served as the first chancellor of the school. From 1979 to the late 1980s, Falwell Sr. also headed the Moral Majority, a right-wing political organization.[24][25]
The school changed its name to Liberty Baptist College in 1976. Officials said the change aimed to distance the school from the name Lynchburg, which is often mistakenly associated with lynching; co-founder Towns also said that Falwell Sr., wanted to use the name "Liberty" to ride the enthusiasm for the Bicentennial of the United States.[26]
The name changed again in 1984, to Liberty University. In 1985, the university launched a distance-learning program by mailing VHS tapes to students;[27] this was the forerunner to Liberty University's current online program.[27][28] Two years later, Liberty University's 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status was formally recognized by the IRS.
In its early decades, the university was held afloat financially by major donors.[27] The university was placed on probation multiple times in the 1990s by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools due to heavy debt loads.[27] In 1990, the university's debt totaled $110 million; in 1996, it totaled $40 million.[27] In 1994, Sun Myung Moon's Women's Federation for World Peace funneled $3.5 million to Liberty University.[29]
Since 1999, Liberty has had an informal relationship with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia, two of whose members sit on the university board of trustees.[30][31]
In 2001, days after 9/11, Jerry Falwell Sr. "blamed the terrorist attacks on gays, lesbians, feminists, abortion doctors, and the ACLU".[32]
In 2004, Liberty University named its School of Government after Falwell family friend Senator Jesse Helms.[33]
In 2005, Barron's Profiles of American Colleges ranked undergraduate admission to LU as "competitive", its fourth-highest of six ranks.[34][35] When high-speed Internet connections became more widespread around 2005, Liberty began to offer online courses to a larger adult population.
After Falwell Sr. died in 2007, his son Jerry Falwell Jr. became the university's second chancellor and fourth president.[25] At the time, the university listed $259 million in assets.[36]
Liberty University Online Academy was formed in 2007, serving 23 students.
Jerry Falwell Jr. In 2009, Liberty University withdrew official recognition of the student Young Democrats club, saying that the club's political positions, including support of abortion rights, conflicted with the school's. The school’s College Republicans club remains officially recognized.[37]
In 2010, Liberty students received about $445 million in federal financial aid money, the highest total of any school in Virginia and one of the highest in the country.[38][39] A 56 percent increase over the previous year, the money was mostly in the form of student loans, but also included some grants and other forms of aid.[38]
In 2011, Liberty blocked campus access to a local Lynchburg newspaper, the News & Advocate, after the newspaper reported on the school's dependence on federal financial aid.[40] Falwell Jr. said that the decision to block the newspaper was unrelated to content published in the paper.[41]
In 2012, Liberty University acquired the former Lynchburg Sears building to house Liberty University online and a television station.[42]
In 2017, Forbes's list of America's Top Colleges ranked Liberty University No. 585 of 650 "Top Colleges", No. 231 as a "Research University", 371 as a "Private College", and 136 "in the South". Forbes also gave Liberty a "Forbes Financial Grade" of B+.[43]
As of 2017, the university's endowment stood at more than $1 billion and gross assets exceeded $2 billion.[44]
In 2019, Will E. Young, a former editor-in-chief of Liberty's Champion student newspaper, described the "culture of fear" at Liberty University, noting that the school "founded on principles of fundamental Christianity, is now a place that has zero tolerance for new questions and ideas. Those who harbor them must remain silent, or leave."[45] Young later argued that Liberty must address its racist past, beginning with Jerry Falwell, Sr. and that it must include people of color and LGBTQ people as it makes decisions.[46]
Ben Howe, whose parents worked for Falwell's Liberty University, published The Immoral Majority: Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power over Christian Values. The book included a critique of Jerry Falwell Jr. who posed "for a picture in front of a Playboy magazine with [Donald] Trump on the cover."[47]
In spring 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Liberty allowed some students to return to campus after spring break over the objections of the city's mayor and contrary to the practices of most U.S. colleges and universities.[48][49] When a ProPublica reporter and New York Times photographer investigated why the university remained partially open, the university pushed the local district attorney to charge them with trespassing.[50]
A few months later, then-president Falwell Jr. posted a picture of Virginia's then-governor Ralph Northam's black face in a tweet that many found racist. Some staff resigned in protest; some black students pursued transfers,[51] many contending that the tweet was a symptom of a larger problem at the university.[52] In response to internal and external criticism, Liberty University officials hired Kelvin Edwards, an alumnus and former NFL player, to lead diversity initiatives on campus,[53] then fired him three months later. Edwards sued the university, alleging a breach of contract.[53][54]
Falwell Jr. was placed on indefinite leave on August 7, 2020, after media began reporting allegations, including photographs, of personal and professional impropriety.[55][56] A few weeks later, he resigned.[57][58][59][60] He claimed that he was entitled to $10.5 million in compensation from the university because he resigned without either admitting to wrongdoing or having formal accusations opened against him.[61]
At the end of Falwell Jr.'s presidency in 2020, the university listed over $2.5 billion in assets.[36] Following Falwell's resignation, Times Higher Education reported that Liberty University was "facing growing criticism over perceived resistance to diversity" following the departures of Edwards, board chair Allen McFarland, and pastor David Nasser.[62] Jonathan Falwell, a son of Jerry Falwell Sr., replaced Nasser.
In late 2020, three reform efforts took place. A group of Liberty University alumni called Save71 was organized in an effort to reform the school. Three Liberty University athletes, Kennedi Williams, Dee Brown, and TreShaun Clark, organized a Black Lives Matter protest on campus, drawing a crowd of about two hundred people. Student leaders also created an online petition to force Liberty to shut down the school's think tank, the Falkirk Center, named after Jerry Falwell Jr. and conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The petition garnered about 400 signatures.[63]
In November 2020, Liberty University graduate and athletics booster Bob Good won a seat in the US House of Representatives, making him the first Liberty graduate to be in the House.[64]
In April 2021, Liberty University sued Falwell Jr. for $40 million in damages for breach of contract and violation of fiduciary duty.[65] In the same month, the Liberty University board of trustees replaced acting chairman Allen McFarland, the first African American board chair, with Tim Lee, "a pro-Trump pastor."[66]
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I love these new script writers.
I couldn't ...
it's the "Flames"
must see TV
Great momentum for the progrum.
Substance wins again.
Don’t feel bad for Oregon… don’t feel bad for Oregon… don’t feel bad for Oregon… don’t you do it…. But I can’t help it… it’s the biggest insult to injury! Kick them while they are down… don’t do it.. you’re better than that…. No I am not…
Nickname Liberty Flames and Lady Flames
Sporting affiliations NCAA Division I FBS –
C-USA, Big East Conference, Coastal Collegiate Sports Association
Mascot Sparky the Eagle
Website www.liberty.edu
Liberty University (LU) is a private evangelical Christian[6] university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia (Southern Baptist Convention). Founded in 1971 by Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns, Liberty is among the world's largest Christian universities and the largest private non-profit universities in the United States by total student enrollment.[7][8] Most of its enrollment is in online courses;[9][10] in 2020, the university enrolled about 15,000 in its residential program and 80,000 online.[11][12]
Liberty University consists of 17 colleges, including a school of osteopathic medicine, a school of law, and a seminary.[13][14] Liberty's athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Liberty Flames. Their athletics program joined Conference USA as a full member in 2023.[15]
Liberty, whose website[16] and officials[17] speak of "training Champions for Christ", requires undergraduate students to take three Evangelical Bible-studies classes.[18] The university's honor code, called the "Liberty Way", prohibits premarital sex, cohabitation, any kind of romantic relationship between members of the same sex,[19] and alcohol use.[20][21]
Described as a "bastion of the Christian right", the university played a prominent role in Republican politics under Falwell and his son and successor Jerry Falwell Jr.;[22] in 2021, Liberty interim president Jerry Prevo said getting conservative candidates elected to office was "one of our main goals".[23]
History
Jerry Falwell, evangelist and leader of the Moral Majority
The school was founded as Lynchburg Baptist College[24] in 1971 by televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr. and Elmer L. Towns. Falwell, already a pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church, served as the first chancellor of the school. From 1979 to the late 1980s, Falwell Sr. also headed the Moral Majority, a right-wing political organization.[24][25]
The school changed its name to Liberty Baptist College in 1976. Officials said the change aimed to distance the school from the name Lynchburg, which is often mistakenly associated with lynching; co-founder Towns also said that Falwell Sr., wanted to use the name "Liberty" to ride the enthusiasm for the Bicentennial of the United States.[26]
The name changed again in 1984, to Liberty University. In 1985, the university launched a distance-learning program by mailing VHS tapes to students;[27] this was the forerunner to Liberty University's current online program.[27][28] Two years later, Liberty University's 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status was formally recognized by the IRS.
In its early decades, the university was held afloat financially by major donors.[27] The university was placed on probation multiple times in the 1990s by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools due to heavy debt loads.[27] In 1990, the university's debt totaled $110 million; in 1996, it totaled $40 million.[27] In 1994, Sun Myung Moon's Women's Federation for World Peace funneled $3.5 million to Liberty University.[29]
Since 1999, Liberty has had an informal relationship with the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia, two of whose members sit on the university board of trustees.[30][31]
In 2001, days after 9/11, Jerry Falwell Sr. "blamed the terrorist attacks on gays, lesbians, feminists, abortion doctors, and the ACLU".[32]
In 2004, Liberty University named its School of Government after Falwell family friend Senator Jesse Helms.[33]
In 2005, Barron's Profiles of American Colleges ranked undergraduate admission to LU as "competitive", its fourth-highest of six ranks.[34][35] When high-speed Internet connections became more widespread around 2005, Liberty began to offer online courses to a larger adult population.
After Falwell Sr. died in 2007, his son Jerry Falwell Jr. became the university's second chancellor and fourth president.[25] At the time, the university listed $259 million in assets.[36]
Liberty University Online Academy was formed in 2007, serving 23 students.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
In 2009, Liberty University withdrew official recognition of the student Young Democrats club, saying that the club's political positions, including support of abortion rights, conflicted with the school's. The school’s College Republicans club remains officially recognized.[37]
In 2010, Liberty students received about $445 million in federal financial aid money, the highest total of any school in Virginia and one of the highest in the country.[38][39] A 56 percent increase over the previous year, the money was mostly in the form of student loans, but also included some grants and other forms of aid.[38]
In 2011, Liberty blocked campus access to a local Lynchburg newspaper, the News & Advocate, after the newspaper reported on the school's dependence on federal financial aid.[40] Falwell Jr. said that the decision to block the newspaper was unrelated to content published in the paper.[41]
In 2012, Liberty University acquired the former Lynchburg Sears building to house Liberty University online and a television station.[42]
In 2017, Forbes's list of America's Top Colleges ranked Liberty University No. 585 of 650 "Top Colleges", No. 231 as a "Research University", 371 as a "Private College", and 136 "in the South". Forbes also gave Liberty a "Forbes Financial Grade" of B+.[43]
As of 2017, the university's endowment stood at more than $1 billion and gross assets exceeded $2 billion.[44]
In 2019, Will E. Young, a former editor-in-chief of Liberty's Champion student newspaper, described the "culture of fear" at Liberty University, noting that the school "founded on principles of fundamental Christianity, is now a place that has zero tolerance for new questions and ideas. Those who harbor them must remain silent, or leave."[45] Young later argued that Liberty must address its racist past, beginning with Jerry Falwell, Sr. and that it must include people of color and LGBTQ people as it makes decisions.[46]
Ben Howe, whose parents worked for Falwell's Liberty University, published The Immoral Majority: Why Evangelicals Chose Political Power over Christian Values. The book included a critique of Jerry Falwell Jr. who posed "for a picture in front of a Playboy magazine with [Donald] Trump on the cover."[47]
In spring 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Liberty allowed some students to return to campus after spring break over the objections of the city's mayor and contrary to the practices of most U.S. colleges and universities.[48][49] When a ProPublica reporter and New York Times photographer investigated why the university remained partially open, the university pushed the local district attorney to charge them with trespassing.[50]
A few months later, then-president Falwell Jr. posted a picture of Virginia's then-governor Ralph Northam's black face in a tweet that many found racist. Some staff resigned in protest; some black students pursued transfers,[51] many contending that the tweet was a symptom of a larger problem at the university.[52] In response to internal and external criticism, Liberty University officials hired Kelvin Edwards, an alumnus and former NFL player, to lead diversity initiatives on campus,[53] then fired him three months later. Edwards sued the university, alleging a breach of contract.[53][54]
Falwell Jr. was placed on indefinite leave on August 7, 2020, after media began reporting allegations, including photographs, of personal and professional impropriety.[55][56] A few weeks later, he resigned.[57][58][59][60] He claimed that he was entitled to $10.5 million in compensation from the university because he resigned without either admitting to wrongdoing or having formal accusations opened against him.[61]
At the end of Falwell Jr.'s presidency in 2020, the university listed over $2.5 billion in assets.[36] Following Falwell's resignation, Times Higher Education reported that Liberty University was "facing growing criticism over perceived resistance to diversity" following the departures of Edwards, board chair Allen McFarland, and pastor David Nasser.[62] Jonathan Falwell, a son of Jerry Falwell Sr., replaced Nasser.
In late 2020, three reform efforts took place. A group of Liberty University alumni called Save71 was organized in an effort to reform the school. Three Liberty University athletes, Kennedi Williams, Dee Brown, and TreShaun Clark, organized a Black Lives Matter protest on campus, drawing a crowd of about two hundred people. Student leaders also created an online petition to force Liberty to shut down the school's think tank, the Falkirk Center, named after Jerry Falwell Jr. and conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The petition garnered about 400 signatures.[63]
In November 2020, Liberty University graduate and athletics booster Bob Good won a seat in the US House of Representatives, making him the first Liberty graduate to be in the House.[64]
In April 2021, Liberty University sued Falwell Jr. for $40 million in damages for breach of contract and violation of fiduciary duty.[65] In the same month, the Liberty University board of trustees replaced acting chairman Allen McFarland, the first African American board chair, with Tim Lee, "a pro-Trump pastor."[66]