If so radical an action has taken place in the last century or two in American higher education, no historians I’ve read have noted it.

Editor’s Note: Joel Belz is the Founder and the original and long-time Publisher of World Magazine. He also has spent much of his adult life on the board of Covenant College, including a term as President. Covenant, located in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, is another Christian college operated directly by a Presbyterian denomination, the Presbyterian Church in America. Belz also is a past Moderator of the PCA. He writes a regular column in World Magazine.

I realize this advice comes a little late for high-school seniors, and their families, in the final stages of deciding where to enroll for college this fall. But news about continuing developments at Erskine College in South Carolina suggests maybe the advice is always timely.

The Erskine news comes as a follow-up to my column here last July 4, where I reported that the denomination that sponsors Erskine—the 30,000-member Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church—had voted to appoint a blue-ribbon committee to investigate reports of doctrinal drift among the faculty both in the liberal arts college and in the denomination’s seminary on the same campus.

Last week, that committee submitted its report to an unprecedented specially called middle-of-the-year meeting of the denomination’s highest court. The result was that, by a two-to-one majority, the court voted to replace the existing board of the college and seminary with a board more likely to reflect the denomination’s more con­servative stance. If so radical an action has taken place in the last century or two in American higher education, no historians I’ve read have noted it.

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