B.H. Carroll Theological Institute accredited. The commission on accreditation for the Association for Biblical Higher Education voted to grant accreditation to the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute. "Our accreditation gives us renewed incentive and opens many doors. It represents not only approval from the academic community, but also the affirmation of our faculty and staff, our board of governors, and especially our students," said Bruce Corley, president of the institute. "The entire Carroll family takes delight in this milestone accomplishment, and most of all we honor the Lord who made it happen." The institute provides graduate-level theological education through mentor-teachers involving a combination of classroom instruction in teaching churches and Internet-based course work.
Clark to lead Children at Heart Foundation. Dawson Clark has been named vice president and chief operating officer of the Children at Heart Foundation, the development and communications arm of Children at Heart Ministries. He succeeds Don Cramer, who will continue to serve the foundation as director of gift planning in a part-time capacity. Clark joined the foundation as a senior development officer in 2003. Since 2010, he has served as associate vice president. A graduate of Texas A&M University, he has 28 years experience in development, public relations and human resources. Cramer joined the staff in 1978 and served as director of development until 1997. After four years as vice president of the Texas Baptist Missions Foundation for the Baptist General Convention of Texas, he returned to the Children at Heart Foundation in 2001 as vice president and chief operating officer.
HBU names provost. John Mark Reynolds, founder and director of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif., has been named provost at Houston Baptist University, effective June 25. Reynolds, who earned a doctorate and master's degree in philosophy at the University of Rochester, N.Y., will serve as the chief academic officer, overseeing the schools, colleges and academic departments at HBU. As director of the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola, Reynolds designed, developed and administrated a Great Books program for honors students at the California university, where he has also served as a professor of philosophy since 1995. In addition, he has published several books and has been a member of the "On Faith" panel for the Washington Post since 2008. He has been an educational consultant for classical high schools around the country.
BWA head to deliver T.B. Maston Lecture at Hardin-Simmons University. Neville Callam, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, will deliver the T.B. Maston lecture at 7 p.m. April 16. His topic will be "Community and Exclusion: The Ethics of Ethnicity and Communion." He also will speak in the 9:30 a.m. chapel service the next day. Both lectures are free and open to the public.
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