It is Greg Elzinga, the current interim president. Elzinga stepped-in after the departure of disgraced former president Wiebe Boer. Calvin has now removed the “interim” from his title. It looks like a safe move. I am guessing Calvin didn’t want […]
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Calvin University responds to Wiebe and Joanna Boer’s lawsuit
If you want to get up to speed, check out the piece we published over the weekend: “Recently ousted Calvin University president Wiebe Boer and his wife Joanna are suing Calvin. The complaint reads like a soap opera.” Here is […]
Recently ousted Calvin University president Wiebe Boer and his wife Joanna are suing Calvin. The complaint reads like a soap opera.
Some of you who read this blog know that we have been keeping track of this story. See our coverage here and here. Here is the latest from MLIVE: GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Calvin University president who stepped down […]
More details on the ousting of Calvin University president Wiebe Boer
In February, Calvin University president Wiebe Boer resigned. Get up to speed here. Bob Smietana of Religion News Service has more details. Here is a taste of his piece: The trustees of Calvin University released a statement Thursday (March 28), […]
Calvin University president Wiebe Boer resigns after sending “unwelcome and inappropriate” messages
Here is WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids: The president of Calvin University has resigned after admitting to sending inappropriate messages to someone on campus, the school says. President Wiebe Boer’s “unwelcome and inappropriate” communication was with a “non-student member of the campus […]
Calvin University turns to football to help enrollment
The strategy appears to be working. Check out Liam Knox’s Inside Higher Education piece on small liberal arts colleges that are trying to “bet on new athletics programs” to attract students: Here is the section on Calvin University: Calvin University […]
What is going on at Calvin University?
Here is Yonat Shimron at Religion News Service: Calvin University’s board of trustees has allowed a group of faculty members to dissent from a clause in a confession of faith that regards sex outside of heterosexual marriage as sinful, thus […]
What is going on at Seattle Pacific University?
Back in May, Seattle Pacific students held a sit-in. Here is Alejandra Molina on June 3 at Religion News Service: For nearly two weeks, students from Seattle Pacific University, a Christian school associated with the Free Methodist Church, have staged […]
Calvin University faculty are “polishing their CVs” after the Christian Reformed Church codified its opposition to homosexual sex
The “polishing their CVs” quote comes from Calvin historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Here is a taste of Yonat Shimron’s piece at Religion News Service: The Christian Reformed Church, a small evangelical denomination of U.S. and Canadian churches, voted Wednesday […]
Wiebe Boer will be the new president of Calvin University. He is a historian.
What can you do with a history major? Become the CEO of a renewal energy investment company in Nigeria and be the 11th president of Calvin University. Boer has a Ph.D in history from Yale where he studied West African […]