Liberty University

In 1971, Pastor Jerry Falwell, Sr. challenged his congregation at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Va. to establish a Christian college whose students would “go out in all walks of life to impact this world for God.” Anon after, Lynchburg Baptist College became an authenticity. Through those founding years, students and faculty were inspired to influence the moral and ethical course of America. Subsequently, the school’s name officially transmuted to Liberty Baptist College in 1975 and the colors were transmuted to red, white, and blue. The college achieved full accreditation with the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Sodality of Colleges and Schools in 1980.

By 1985, the school had become apperceived as a fully­accredited university, integrating programs and garnering apperception from both mainstream culture and the world of academia. Liberty withal pioneered a distance learning program that year, launching what is now kenned as Liberty University Online. With the passing of the progenitor in 2007, his son, Jerry Falwell, Jr., became chancellor and president of the university. At the 2007 Commencement ceremony, just days after his father’s passing, the now President Falwell proclaimed, “We have prepared for this transition for 15 years or more. All is well at Liberty.”

In only four short decades, Liberty has grown to become the nation’s fifth most immensely colossal university, and most importantly, the world’s most astronomically immense Christian university. Liberty’s journey has been one of facing giants, making the infeasible possible, visually examining fervent prayer move mountains, and Training Champions for Christ.