Celebrating Anderson University’s centennial with messengers at the South Carolina Baptist Convention annual meeting, president Evans Whitaker announced that the SCBC-affiliated school is moving toward its first doctoral program.
A doctor of ministry degree will be offered through the Clamp Graduate School of Christian Ministry. Pending approval by the university’s accrediting agency, the program would be open for applications in the fall of 2011.
The program will have a specialization in biblical preaching, according to Michael Duduit, dean of the College of Christian Studies.
Whitaker also reminded messengers of the long history of partnership between Anderson University and South Carolina Baptists, which began 100 years ago – ironically, at the suggestion of two Episcopalian Anderson business leaders who felt the Baptist partnership would be a better one, since the Anderson area was predominantly Baptist.