Motto Training to Transform Established 1946 - 2015 Acceptance rate 58.2% (2014) Mascot Crusaders Founder Lee Roberson | Type Private Campus Highland Park, 37404 Undergraduate tuition and fees 12,460 USD (2015) Total enrollment 947 (2010) Phone +1 800-553-4050 | |
Students 468 University Students; 88 Seminary Location Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States Address 1815 Union Ave, Chattanooga, TN 37404, USA Notable alumni Kay Arthur, Dan Lothian, Kenneth Gentry, Carlos Taylor, Allison Barber Similar Chattanooga State Communi, Covenant College, Bryan College, Chattanooga College Medical, Richmont Graduate University | ||
Abandoned dorms plague neighbors by tennessee temple university
Tennessee Temple University was a four-year private Christian university, with its focus on liberal arts education, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Operating there, also, was Temple Baptist Seminary, the university's graduate school of Christian theology.
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Tennessee Temple was founded in 1946 under the leadership and vision of Dr. Lee Roberson. As the pastor of a prominent Southern Baptist church, Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Roberson saw the need to train people for ministry through higher education. Believing that God was leading him to act upon this need, he began an evening Bible institute which would eventually blossom into a Bible college and a liberal arts college. Later, a seminary would be added.
The close relationship that the school maintained with Highland Park Baptist Church, one of the early megachurches of the modern era, created many ministry training opportunities for the students of Tennessee Temple. This model would be the inspiration for the Rev. Jerry Falwell to begin what would become Liberty University.
Tennessee Temple's peak enrollment was more than 4,000. As of September 2013, there were "just over" 400 students enrolled. In September 2013, university leaders reported that the institution was considering a campus relocation, from Highland Park to a larger site on Woodland Park Baptist Church property located on Standifer Gap Road. In February 2014, the university announced that it would sell most of its Highland Park campus buildings to Redemption to the Nations, the parent organization of Redemption Point Church, and move to a new site by June 2015.
In March 2015, it was announced that, as of April 30, 2015, Tennessee Temple University would dissolve and merge with Piedmont International University, a private Christian college in Winston-Salem, N.C. Dr. Steve Echols was the last President of Tennessee Temple University.