Hyles-Anderson College ( HAC ) is an unrecognized Independent Independent College in Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana. As a service of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, the church focuses on training Christian pastors, missionaries and teachers to work in Independent Baptist schools.
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Histori
In 1972, Hyles-Anderson College was founded by Jack Hyles with financial support from Russell Anderson. The school was originally located on campus known as Baptist City in Schererville, Indiana. The former HAC campus was converted into a Hammond Baptist K-12 school. The school is also operated by the First Baptist Church of Hammond.
The university's first president was Robert J. Billings, who later served as "Ronald Reagan's liaison for the Christian fundamentalist movement in the 1980 presidential campaign" and then spent six years in the US Department of Education as well as a founding member of Moral Majority.
The Hyles-Anderson Alumni has pastored more than 572 churches in the US and Guam. More than 123 alumni formed missionary families, church planters, and mission teams around the world with Fundamental Baptist Missions International and many hundreds have worked with other mission councils as well. One graduate, Jon Nelms, started the Final Frontiers Foundation mission board, which has produced more than 44,000 churches worldwide.
When Hyles died in 2001, his son-in-law Jack Schaap, a 1979 graduate and former vice president of the school since 1996, became chancellor. In the same year, Hyles' childhood home, 384 square feet (36 square meters) in Italy, Texas was purchased to create a museum in honor of Hyles and shipped from Texas to Hyles-Anderson College. Schaap was removed as chancellor in 2012 after federal officials began searching for child molestation, which Schaap later pleaded guilty to.
In 2012, Chicago reported that the school "seems to be struggling" with only 1,000 students enrolled, down from 2,700 at its peak. Schaap noted that the donations were down and the dismissal of the staff occurred prior to his arrest.
In 2015 Stuart Mason, former President of Hyles-Anderson College, resigned to Pastor the Timberline Baptist Church in Sherwood, Oregon. The next President is John Wilkerson.
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Academics, policy and accreditation
Hyles-Anderson College is not accredited by a recognized accreditation body. An essay on Jack Hyles's website presents some arguments against accreditation. However, the US military and public service offices do not recognize unaccredited degrees, while some countries limit the use of degrees from unaccredited agencies.
All teachers, staff, and students are required to win souls every week, by participating in evangelistic ministry at First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana. The college catalog of 2008 claims that 10,000 new baptisms are performed every year in the Church.
There are separate requirements for male and female students for the same degree. For example, the Bachelor of Science Degree program has a "Curriculum for Ladies" that requires classes including "Home Decoration," "Apparel Design" and "Understanding Your Husband."
For the 2010-2011 academic year, the HAC catalog includes "you may not like," policies including prohibiting male long hair, using alcohol, smoking, dancing, Hollywood movies, playing cards, having "friendship with liberals," or participating in " other questionable entertainment "and also requires" young women "to be accompanied if they go off campus.
Scandal
Father Joseph Combs and his wife Evangeline Lopez Combs were members of First Baptist Church at Hammond and Combs and a professor at Hyles-Anderson College, even described as "the most prominent Bible instructor at Hyles Anderson." In 1998, they were accused of "kidnapping, aggravated aggression, perjury and seven charges of rape". The two adopted Esther Combs, whose experts say was tortured by the couple for nearly 20 years. He has 410 scars covering his body, allegedly from curly iron burns, beating baseball bat and other undetectable harassment. A babysitter, who is a student of Hyles Anderson College, testified that he and the others "suspect that Esther was treated badly but did not want to contradict Combs, who has become their Bible professor at Hyles Anderson College." Another nanny testified he "reported his suspicions to the college president, but apparently nothing was done", he said. In 1986, Combs moved to Florida to start a church, but after being accused of harassment, they moved to Tennessee. They were convicted in 2000 of kidnapping, child abuse and aggravated aggression. They were sentenced to 179 years for the rape and torture of their daughters. The story is featured on national television with ABC TV PrimeTime .
In 2012, Jack Schaap's school chancellor and graduate was removed from his pastor's position at the First Baptist Church of Hammond for having sex with a member of the church when he was 16. The girl, who has not yet been named, took classes at Hyles-Anderson College. As a result, Lake County law enforcement initiated a criminal investigation into the church and Hyles-Anderson College. Schaap was sued in US District Court for bringing children across the state to have sex with her and signing a plea agreement. In a memorandum of punishment, prosecutors alleged that Schaap "took care of" the girl, including kissing the victim during counseling and having sex with her in her office. In March 2013, Schaap was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for having sex with a minor.
In 1993, WJBK, the Detroit, Michigan news channel, produced a 30-minute documentary called Preying from the Pulpit that examined new claims of sexual harassment at five different fundamentalist churches where church workers were abusing children traced back. to Hyles-Anderson College. In addition to harassment, the program tested Hyles' teachings, including a 1990 sermon in which "Hyles pretended to pour a poison into a glass and asked an associate clergyman, Johnny Colsten, to drink it." Colsten said he would do it. The report said, "The sermon had a 'Jonestown ring' for it - mass suicide in Guyana in 1978 by followers of the Jim Jones sect leader." Hyles called the program "bad journalism" and organized a national campaign to respond.
See also
- List of non-accredited learning institutions
References
External links
- Official website
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