Not familiar with the tragic and ongoing saga at Cornerstone University? Get up to speed here. In a conversation with Paul Davis, the President of the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, troubled Cornerstone University President Gerson Moreno-RiaƱo called opposition […]
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“A Pastoral Letter” to the Cornerstone University administration and board
Some of you are familiar with the collapse of the humanities at Cornerstone University and the attempts by the administration and board to bring the evangelical university in Grand Rapids, Michigan solidly in line with the MAGA right. For those […]
Cornerstone University appears to have stripped the “emeritus” status of a professor who is critical of an administration that surrounds itself with “bullet-proof glass.”
The drama continues at Cornerstone University. Get up to speed here. David L. Turner, a retired Cornerstone University professor, has also been chronicling the sad state of affairs at the Grand Rapids, Michigan Christian college. He spent thirty-two years on […]
Former Cornerstone University professors start “Contrary U”
After Cornerstone University fired humanities professor Matt Bonzo and Michael Stevens (and others), the chair of the Board of Trustees implied that they were “contrarians.” If you are not familiar with what happened at Cornerstone, check out our coverage here. […]
Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-RiaƱo says the quiet parts out loud
I was going to take some time off from the blog this weekend to get some work done on a book manuscript, but this story pulled me back, Michael Corleone-style. (Not familiar with what is going on these days at […]
A Cornerstone University alum laments
Amy Houskamp Nemecek is a senior editor at Baker Publishing Group and the author of The Language of the Birds and Other Poets. She is a graduate of Cornerstone University, a Christian college that just cut virtually all of its […]
Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-RiaƱo wants to stop the blood lust. Why his call rings hollow.
Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-RiaƱo has a piece at The Washington Times titled “America has an unending lust for bloodshed. We need divine intervention.” Read it here. Gerson Moreno-RiaƱo calls for an end to American “blood lust”: James Fenimore Cooperās […]
Cornerstone University is literally rewriting history
The purge at Cornerstone University appears to be very thorough. The University is eliminating references to its fired professors, the so-called “contrarians.” Not familiar with this ongoing story? Get up to speed here. An article on the Cornerstone website about […]
Cornerstone University’s problems suddenly look a lot worse
We’ve learned from several credible sources that less than a month before firing seven tenured professors, the Cornerstone Board of Trustees authorized the removal of all tenure protections from all tenured faculty in every discipline across the university, turning them […]
The chair of Cornerstone University’s Board of Trustees responds to the school’s cuts in arts and humanities (UPDATED)
Are you new to this story? Get up to speed here. The alumni of Cornerstone University recently received this statement from Richard S. Koole, chair of the Cornerstone University Board. Current was able to obtain a copy: Fellow Alumni, Like […]
Religion News Service on the crisis at Cornerstone University
Here is Kathryn Post: Meredith Mead, a conservative Christian with a love of words, enrolled in Cornerstone University three years ago, choosing the 83-year-old nondenominational school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, over other top Christian schools because of its creative writing […]
Cornerstone University alumni push back on school cuts to arts and humanities program
As many of you know, we have been covering the cuts at Cornerstone University. Get up to speed here. Members of the Cornerstone University community have come together to form a new website: “VOICE OF CU: Coming together to shed […]
More questions about Cornerstone University’s decision to fire humanities professors
Not familiar with this story? Get up to speed here and here and here. Cornerstone University is trying to refute our claims thatĀ it has eliminated all arts and humanities programs. In an interview withĀ MinistryWatch bloggerĀ Warren Cole Smith, Cornerstone spokesperson Heide […]
Cornerstone University alumni react to the termination of Arts, Music, and Humanities programs
Cornerstone University recently terminated its Arts, Music, and Humanities programs. Tenured faculty were fired. Get up to speed here and here. Some of our sources in Grand Rapids have gathered these comments from Cornerstone alums and former students: A Journalism […]
“Welcome to East Beltline Trade and Vocational School”
David L. Turner, a former professor at Cornerstone University’s Cornerstone Theological Seminary (formerly Grand Rapids Theological Seminary), reflects on the recent cuts to Humanities and Arts programs at Cornerstone. Here is a taste of his blog post: Bad news about […]
Cornerstone University responds to our story on faculty cuts and the termination of humanities and arts programs
Earlier this week, we called your attention to Cornerstone University’s decision to fire tenured professors and terminate all humanities and arts programs. Get up to speed here. Yesterday, WOOD TV-8 the Grand Rapids NBC affiliate, did a story on our […]
Cornerstone University fires tenured professors and terminates all humanities and arts programs
I recently finished Rick Ostrander’s memoir focused on his career in evangelical higher education. Among Rick’s many stops in Christian college leadership was Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He served as provost at the university from 2009 to 2015. […]
Former Regent University professors have some stories to tell about Cornerstone University’s new president
On the day before Gerson Moreno-RiaƱo’s inauguration as president of Cornerstone University the faculty voted no confidence in him. (Read the faculty letter to the Board of Trustees here). The university went ahead with the inauguration almost as if the […]
Cornerstone University votes no-confidence in president the day before inauguration
We posted on this earlier in the week. Here is the latest from Religion News Service: Faculty at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, voted no confidence in the Christian schoolās incoming president on Thursday (Oct. 21), one day before his […]
What is going on at Cornerstone University?
Cornerstone University is a Christian college in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Recently a group of alumni wrote an open letter to the board of trustees about the direction the university is taking under the leadership of new president Gerson Moreno-RiaƱo. The […]