Belhaven University
Belhaven University ("Belhaven" or "BU") is a private Christian human sciences school arranged in Jackson, Mississippi. Set up by Dr. Lewis Fitzhugh and later provided for the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the school has been self-sufficiently continue running by a Board of Trustees since 1972. Belhaven is approve by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to reward Associate, Baccalaureate, and Master's degrees. Twenty-seven Bachelor's Degrees and eight Master's Degrees are publicized. Despite standard majors, activities of general studies are available. There are in like manner pre-capable tasks in Christian Ministry, Medicine, Dentistry, Law, and Nursing.
Belhaven keeps up satellite reason for graduate and student contemplates in Atlanta, Houston, Memphis and Orlando, besides coordinates online ventures. Belhaven instructs from a "Christian Worldview Curriculum" and describes its focal objective as arranging "understudies educationally and significantly to serve Jesus Christ in their employments, in human associations, and in the domain of contemplations.
History
In 1894, Belhaven College was shrunk by Doctor Lewis Fitzhugh as the "Belhaven College for Young Ladies" in a house on Boyd Street in Jackson, Mississippi. The name "Belhaven" was picked as it was the familial home of Colonel Jones S. Hamilton in Scotland, the past proprietor of the house. A fire crushed the guideline working in February, 1895, however with the help of Jackson subjects, the school resuscitated in the fall of 1896 at the same site. Fitzhugh served as president until his going in 1904, whereupon his recipients sold the school to Doctor J. R. Preston, who worked the school until it was again pulverized by a fire in 1910. Preston then gave the title of the school to the Presbyterian Church, signifying the begin of Belhaven's religious association. In September, 1911, the school was resuscitated by The Central Mississippi Presbytery as Belhaven Collegiate and Industrial Institute at the present site on Peachtree Street in the prominent Belhaven Neighborhood. It was then met with The McComb Female Institute. Dr. R. V. Lancaster transformed into the third president as the two associations joined. In 1915 the Board of Trustees changed the school's name to Belhaven College. In the midst of these years upgraded instructive system guidelines and understudy organizations were set up. Dr. W. H. Frazier succeeded Lancaster as president from 1918–21, and in the midst of his residency selection created to 230 understudies.
In 1921, the Reverend Guy T. Gillespie of Lexington, Mississippi, began a 33-year organization in the midst of which Belhaven was at first affirm, a blessing save began, and gives made open. In 1939, Belhaven was joined with the Mississippi Synodical College, a school in Holly Springs, Mississippi which had been opened in 1883. This date was grasped by the Board of Trustees as the authority setting up date of Belhaven as it identifies with the most settled building up date of most of the establishments which were over the long haul devoured into the school. In 1954, the Board of Trustees voted to allow the selection of male understudies, making Belhaven a totally co-educational establishment. Dr. McFerran Crowe succeeded Gillespie as President and all through the accompanying six years he amplified and upgraded the faculty, while in like manner patching up and modernizing business operations. The central singing Christmas tree on the planet showed up at Belhaven in 1933.
From 1960 to 1961, Dr. Robert F. Cooper served as acting president until the board picked Dr. Howard J. Cleland to supplant him. Under Cleland's 17-year residency, an anxious expansion program achieved six significant new structures, while enrollment and the school spending arrangement tripled. In 1965, a representative was given up for being gay. In 1972, the Synod of Mississippi formally traded obligation regarding school to the main gathering of trustees, making Belhaven a totally free school. In March, 1978, Doctor Verne R. Kennedy transformed into the vital Belhaven graduate to serve as the CEO of Belhaven College. In his eight years as president he reaffirmed the commitment to Christian organization and the agreement relationship with the Presbyterian Church, and presented a more powerful administrative structure. In June 1986, another graduate of Belhaven, Dr. Newton Wilson, got the chance to be president. His nine-year term saw the best advancement ever, from somewhat more than 600 understudies to more than 1,100.
By 1995, more than 80 percent of Belhaven's staff held doctoral or equivalent degrees. The school in like manner widened its exertion in nontraditional venues, with broadened course offerings for adult and night understudies. Dr. Daniel C. Fredericks served as acting president in 1995. In January 1996, Doctor Roger Parrott transformed into the tenth president of the school, with around 1,300 enrolled understudies. Under his power, Belhaven has included seven critical structures, a collection of new student academic majors and graduate undertakings, intercollegiate football, grounds in Memphis, Orlando, Houston, Chattanooga, and Atlanta, online activities, the "Christian Worldview Curriculum", and earned national accreditation in each one of the four of the genuine expressions (Music, Theater, Visual Arts, and Dance). The range of the understudy body has nearly tripled in the midst of his residency. Today, various workforce and staff people are drawn from various Presbyterian bunches, chiefly the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Presbyterian Church in America, and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. The school gets both cash related sponsorship and understudies from these three areas moreover.
Name changes
Belhaven has encountered diverse name changes consistently. Four critical name changes have happened, regardless of the way that the name "Belhaven" has been ordinary to every one of them. The school was at first settled as "Belhaven College for Young Ladies" in 1894. After the principal range seethed in a fire in 1910, Belhaven was restored as "The Belhaven Collegiate and Industrial Institute" in 1911 at its present zone on Peachtree Street in the striking Belhaven Neighborhood in Jackson. In 1915, the Board of Trustees further changed the school's name to "Belhaven College". In December, 2009, President Roger Parrott reported that the Board of Trustees had voted reliably to change the name from "Belhaven College" to the present name of "Belhaven University", capable on January 1, 2010. Among the reasons refered to for the name change were the extension of a couple of new graduate ventures of study and a total enrollment of more than 3,000 understudies transversely more than four regions, including more than 500 graduate understudies.
Scholastics
Belhaven University offers Bachelor's Degrees in 27 assorted critical zones of study including Accounting, Art (Visual Arts), Arts Administration, Biblical Studies and Ministries, Biology, Business Administration, Chemistry, Classical Education, Communication, Computer Science, Creative Writing, Dance, Elementary Education, English, Graphic Design, History, Humanities, International Studies, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Services, Sports Administration, Sports Medicine and Exercise Science, Sports Ministry and Theater. Pre-capable Programs are furthermore offered in Christian Ministry, Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Nursing, and Medical Technology. Graduate degrees are offered in Business Administration, Leadership, Public Administration, Teaching, and Education, among others.
Understudies graduating with a high audit point typical (GPA) may get Latin Honors in the midst of graduation, including Cum Laude for a GPA above 3.4, Magna Cum Laude for a GPA above 3.7, and Summa Cum Laude for a GPA above 3.9. Understudies who have traded to Belhaven and who have earned a GPA of 3.4 or higher however have not earned more than sixty-four hours of credit at the school may graduate "with unique excellence", notwithstanding the way this is not saw as a Latin Honor. Belhaven University understudies may be welcome to take an enthusiasm for Belhaven's Honors College in the midst of their Freshman or sophomore year gave they have a GPA of 3.5 or higher and an ACT score of 27 or higher or a SAT score of 1220 or higher and moreover the sponsorship of no under one teacher. The five most surely understood majors among 2009 graduates were Visual and Performing Arts (22%), Business, Management, Marketing, and related support organizations (17%), Health and Physical Education/Fitness (11%), Education (9%), and Psychology (8%).Belhaven began a nursing major in the midst of the Fall 2014 semester.
Expressive arts
Belhaven University is extensively ensure by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design,the National Association of Schools of Music, the National Association of Schools of Dance and the National Association of Schools of Theater,making Belhaven one of only 36 schools and schools authorized in the each one of the four of the genuine expressions (Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater).
Accreditation
Belhaven is ensure by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Divisions offering specific majors are further affirm as takes after: The Department of Music is an authorized institutional individual from the National Association of Schools of Music, the Department of Art is an approve institutional individual from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the Department of Dance is an ensure institutional individual from the National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD), and the Department of Theater is authorized institutional individual from the National Association of Schools of Theater.Belhaven University, through its School of Business Administration, has the going with degree programs confirm by the International Assembly for Co
