Talk:Tennessee Temple University

message: I am a student at Tennessee temple University and will be adding a list of the departments currently in TTU. I have to go to dinner soon, and still have a video to make before that, so I will finish the addition of the new section either tonight or tomorrow. Sculleywr (talk) 22:14, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Department section addition

message: My father called me last night, he is retired and lives in Cleveland Tennessee, about 40km North of Chattanooga, and he told me he's working for Tennessee Temple University now, renovating three dormitories that have been unused for a decade.  He then went on to say that Jerry Falwell Ministries (or Liberty University) was funding the project, and had sent someone down from Virginia to either assist or take over the administration of Temple, which has enrolled some 200 new students.  
I came to Wikipedia for the details, and was surprised to find no mention of these changes, nor on the University website, or at Falwell Ministries or Liberty.  Does anyone know anything more than I heard from dad last night (Aug 11)?   -- Caulds
:I think one reason about the lack of info on the changes is that most students who are knowledgeable of such infomration do not have the time or inclination to edit a wikipedia article about the school, as most of them barley use it at all, much less take the time to edit articles. I know most of the teachers are wary about Wikipedia, thanks to bad press from uninformed radio, print, and tv journalists that say that wikipedia is riddled with errors. I always counter their arguments that wikipedia is almost as reliable as the Encyclopædia Britannica.
rlee1185 22:11, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Connection to Falwell Ministries

message: I added the TTU Mission Statement from the University's website. I noticed that several other university articles included this. I think it gives a more in depth look at TTU's goals and objectives.
--|Spero23| (talk) 01:35, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You will not find universal agreement that university articles should include mission statements. The fact that other university articles contain mission statements does not mean that this is worthwhile content for the encyclopedia (see Wikipedia:Other stuff exists). Mission statements seldom impart valuable information about an institution, and they never are neutral in their point of view. However, most mission statements are just one or two sentences, so they don't take much space in an article. The item you quoted is labeled on the website as "mission statement," but it goes on, and on, and on some more. A statement of that length is a promotional blurb, not a concise mission statement. I deleted it; to help you understand why, see Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, WP:SOAP, and Wikipedia:Do not include copies of primary sources. --Orlady (talk) 04:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mission Statement 

message: I tried changing the phrase loosley identified with the independent baptist faith to simply baptist faith because of it's website..  It got reverted thinking I was being a vandal.  They only claim to be baptist and not Southern Baptist.  Would it not be better to label it on Wikipedia as simply Baptist?  Not trying to start trouble or be a vandal, just thought it would be more accurate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.169.226.218 (talk) 22:09, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears to me that the school has historically been Independent Baptist, but is now flirting with a possible affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention. See this webpage and this online article from July 2008. Salient quotations from the news article: "Southern Baptist leaders including the convention's new president Johnny Hunt are involved in a quiet move to bring the Tennessee Temple University into the fold of Southern Baptist schools. Last fall Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., joined the Tennessee Baptist Convention after 60 years as an independent Baptist church. According to a recent story in the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Pastor David Bouler said Tennessee Temple, founded by Highland Park's longtime pastor Dr. Lee Roberson in 1946, "is also in the process of being approved as an SBC school."" And from the blog commentary: "Tennessee Temple was originally founded in the Fundamentalist tradition of Bob Jones University. From the article below, it appears as if Tennessee Temple is on its way to becoming affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention, sort of a replacement for Belmont University which has just recently departed. ... A school is actually being forced to become more liberal in order to join the SBC fold." IMO, changing the article to remove the indication about the Independent Baptist affiliation would be removing important information. If the school does pursue affiliation with the SBC, the article should tell the story, not merely reflect the current official position. --Orlady (talk) 03:13, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baptist? 

message: On the very source linked, and as is well-known, Jerry Falwell is said to have received an honorary doctorate from TTU.  He is not an alum, and never as far as I know attended TTU as a student (which is the minimum definition of alum IMO).  This row of the table should be stricken.  Perhaps Jerry Falwell had a relationship with TTU, and that may very well deserve a section in the page.  But his row in the table of alumni is factually incorrect.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snicoloso (talk • contribs) 18:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jerry Falwell is not an alum of TTU 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Tennessee Temple University. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20130107144622/http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/lothian.dan.html to http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/lothian.dan.html
*Added archive https://web.archive.org/20120603174212/http://www.cedarville.edu/inauguration/pastpresidents_dixon.htm to http://www.cedarville.edu/inauguration/pastpresidents_dixon.htm
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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Substituted at 07:48, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment