May 14
SWBTS confers record number of degrees
Topic: SWBTS| Written by: Benjamin Cole|* On May 11, 2007, I noted that SWBTS was reaching the lowest numbers of graduates in eight years.
* On September 11, 2007, SWBTS noted that the school had reached the highest student enrollment in 5 years.
* On May 14, 2008, Baptist Press noted that SWBTS had conferred 239 degrees, including the first graduates of the College at Southwestern
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming…
**UPDATE**
SBCOutpost.com has just received homemade video footage from the SWBTS graduation ceremonies. I think you could say they had a rootin’ tootin’ Texas time.
May 14th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
From the article: “Patterson urged the graduates to leave the Fort Worth, Texas, campus not with the desire for a career and financial gain but with the desire to serve and proclaim the Gospel.”
In other words, do as I say, not as I do.
May 14th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Ben,
Glad your Back from vacation and Pray you are relaxed and ready for the Battle for the Truth.
I see the number of Graduates has dropped again, thanks to the great Job being done at SWBTS. (Tongue in Cheek)!!!
Here are some figures to work with to be able to measure Performance at Our Seminaries.
Okay, now who is doing the best Job as President of a Southern Baptist Seminary? ROI = Return on Investment. How much is spent on Education by each Seminary per Student. We need the enrollment Figures for the following Seminaries as listed in the Baptist Press.
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
A $36,987,017 seminary budget was approved for the 2008-09 fiscal year, a 2.4 percent increase over the current year. “”This is hidden in the news article”",
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27839
Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary trustees adopted a 2008-09 budget of $10,473,000, up 3.4 percent from the current year, during their April 7-8 meeting at the seminary’s Northern California campus in Mill Valley.
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27840
2nd phase of SEBTS fundraising approved
In other action, trustees approved a $21.3 million budget for the 2008-09 fiscal year and elected three new faculty members.
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27853
NOBTS TRUSTEES: New initiatives approved
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27884
NOBTS President Chuck Kelley
The trustees also:– approved a budget of $19,540,305 for the coming fiscal year.
Wayne
May 15th, 2008 at 8:28 am
that works out $163,125.59 per degree. (if degree numbers are about the same again).
May 15th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I’m wondering just where all the money is going. From just a little internet perusing, some noted and famous PhDs at Southern have to take full-time, moderate-sized church pastorates just to make ends meet.
Salaries must be at an all-time low. TIC.
Gary
May 15th, 2008 at 10:01 am
When I was at SWBTS we had so many grads, we had to have graduation at Travis Ave. Bapt. Of course that was when we had liberals teaching and attending and all. Thank goodness we got rid of all of them. Now, they have so few, they can have it on the front lawn and wear cowboy hats. Did the grads gallop up on little stick horses to receive their diplomas?
If they keep doing so well, they can just have everyone over for a barbeque at Pecan Manor.
Now THAT’S a conservative renaissance!
May 15th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Robert,
The mental image of graduates “gallop[ping] up on little stick horses to receive their diplomas” has made me laugh harder than the failed attempt of the SBCToday boys and their def investagatory skills in determining my identity. Thanks for the laugh.
May 15th, 2008 at 11:37 am
If the current management continues its exemplary work, they’ll one day set a record that could NEVER be broken.
Zero.
Unless they could start revoking diplomas in search of further record-setting. They can’t do that, can they?
May 15th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Robert L.
Thanks. Adding cap pistols and holsters would have been even funnier!
May 15th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
To be honest, I’m disappointed Patterson didn’t give his commencement sermon from atop a stallion, like in the picture that graced the cover of the alumni magazine last year with the Administrative Council all on horesback on the front lawn. Now that’s a picture of majesty if ever there was one . . .
May 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I gotta confess. I’m confused. I thought the faculty were the ones wearing the cowboy hats. But in the video, it looks like it’s the graduates who are wearing the hats. This is just too much for a simpleton like myself.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Robert L.
I told SBCToday that you are Ergun Caner’s barber.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Robert,
There is one professor in the video…. SHE’S in the hat remonstrating the young lad (future pastor). My BF&M is not handy, is that legal?
May 16th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Prince,
I suspect that Caner would never let me near his head with a razor if he knew who I was
P.S. Since you mentioned they boys at sbctoday, i thought i’d mirror their pattern and tell you that my security word is “2983″!
May 16th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
TBone,
Great question. According to the BFM, such an action is not permissible. However, if one wishes to know what the BFM means, then one should consult the Red Bishop, who has demonstrated that no woman should ever teach a man anything. That’s why I walked out of a CPR class last week. There was a woman who was teaching the class. If I am unable to save a dying person in the future, it won’t be my fault. I’m just following the Bible
My security word was b7a7
May 16th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Robert,
You have been indoctrinated my dear man.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
By the way, we had a woman teach our CPR class and as evidence that we men had slipped to a new level of depravity, the running joke was that we each hoped we never needed the other’s services!
May 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
TBone,
I need to correct my last post. The first line should read “According to the BFM, such an action is not prohibited. However, . . .”
Sorry for the typo.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Robert,
Thank you for your kindness, humility, and sense of humor!
T-Bone
May 16th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
TBone,
It’s my pleasure . . .
My security word was 43d1. I’m so giddy . . .