Religious Colleges

Yeshiva University partnered with the Philos Project, a Christian organization, to create a program for Christian students this upcoming fall. The goal is help meet a demand for rigorous but accessible coursework on Judaism among young Christians. Administrators say fostering more interfaith learning at the Orthodox Jewish institution is a bonus.

An entrepreneur’s for-profit education company promised to save an evangelical liberal arts college with online enrollments. Now critics are blaming it for pushing the college to the brink of closure.

Linked Minnesota Catholic institutions are downsizing languages and other humanities offerings amid declining enrollment.

Christians from across the country flocked to Asbury University after students led a spontaneous, round-the-clock prayer service that lasted more than two weeks. Participants and skeptics on and off campus are now processing what happened.

The King’s College needs $2.6 million to meet its “immediate needs” and stave off closure. Weeks into the fundraising effort, less than $200,000 has been donated.

Hilbert College, a nonprofit Catholic institution in New York, is purchasing for-profit Valley College, which has four sites in Ohio and West Virginia. That makes for an unusual match.

Belmont University, which solely employed Christian faculty members, plans to hire some Jewish professors. Supporters say the decision will promote religious inclusion at the institution. Critics believe it either goes too far or not far enough.

Jerry Falwell Jr. built Liberty University up before resigning as president amid a sex scandal. Now he’s banned from campus and locked in conflict with the institution his father founded.