WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 27, 2023 – The Hon. Patrick Adderley, Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C., and Consul Tami Ferguson Culmer met with Bahamian students along with the President, other faculty, and staff of Liberty University on September 15, 2023.
The meeting was an opportunity to deepen the engagement with students and strengthen the partnership between The Bahamas and Liberty University regarding increasing the enrollment of Bahamian students at the university.
A private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia, Liberty University 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 university in the United States by total student enrollment. Most of its enrollment is in online courses. In 2020, the university enrolled about 15,000 in its residential program and 80,000 online.
Liberty University consists of 17 colleges, including a school of osteopathic medicine, a school of law, and a seminary. Liberty’s athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Liberty Flames. Their college football team is an NCAA Division I FBS Independent, while most of their other sports teams compete in the ASUN Conference. Their athletics program will join Conference USA as a full member in 2023.
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. In 2021, Liberty Interim President Jerry Prevo said getting conservative candidates elected to office was “one of our main goals”.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia
