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- This Facebook group is designed to help current students, alumni and prospective students of Northwestern College gain a better understanding of the difficulties currently felt between faculty and the administration.
This will be a centralized facebook location for information and updates regarding the current controversies at Northwestern.
If you are interested in reading memos from the past few months regarding these issues, check out the links at the bottom of this page and also visit... (read more) - Privacy Type:
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Friends of Northwestern College & Radio
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- Friends of Northwestern College & Radio
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- Organizations - Academic Organizations
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- This Facebook group is designed to help current students, alumni and prospective students of Northwestern College gain a better understanding of the difficulties currently felt between faculty and the administration.
This will be a centralized facebook location for information and updates regarding the current controversies at Northwestern.
If you are interested in reading memos from the past few months regarding these issues, check out the links at the bottom of this page and also visit... (read more) - Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public.
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- (December, 2009) The board made a public statement regarding the controversy, and we have issued a response. Both statements are available at www.nwctruth.com (login: northwestern, password: truth)
(Sept. 10) Evidence that led to the Student Government formal vote of "no confidence" in Dr. Cureton and the ultimately prematurely ceased investigation into the claims made is now available at www.nwctruth.com (login: northwestern, password: truth).
(June 8) The board of trustees has released a new statement regarding the investigation into the controversy. You can find it at: http://eagle.nwc.edu/pdfs/nwc/6908/SpecialMaster_BoardStatement_060609_Final.pdf
(April 21) The board and Dr. Cureton have announced the formation of the Berean Commission, designed to respond to the findings of the theological drift committee. Read about it at http://nwc.nwc.edu/display/6994.
(April 13) The board has released a statement updating the status of the theological drift committee, you can find it at http://nwc.nwc.edu/display/6994.
(February) The student government just issued a statement to the student body regarding recent events.
The student government met with Dr. Cureton and chairman of the board Grover Sayre to present evidence for the claims made in their public statement. A report of the meeting is on the discussion board. Grover Sayre has also released a statement in response to the meeting, also available here.
The student government has released a statement expressing a vote of "no confidence" in Dr. Cureton and calling for him to step down. Dr. Cureton released a statement responding to the vote. Both documents are available at www.nwctruth.com (login: northwestern, password: truth).
(UPDATE) To read the letter that was presented to the board of trustees in December, click the following link: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhr789gs_11dcfrnwhn
The board has posted its response to the letter at http://nwc.nwc.edu/display/6988.
A website has been created that outlines the current concerns and provides the key memos that contain details of these issues. Visit www.nwctruth.com. Because we'd prefer that only those in the NWC community visit the site, we've made it password protected. The login is "northwestern," password "truth."
(A comprehensive and detailed letter was presented to the chairman of the board in time for the board of trustees' meeting Friday, December 12th. The letter outlined the questions and concerns that remain after all of the public statements and articles. We hope the board and leadership will consider these matters and address them appropriately. We will not be making the letter public until the end of winter break--but we will keep you updated on that front.)
We had an excellent gathering near campus on Nov. 20th that drew about 175 students, alumni, faculty, and staff. It was a time of worship, prayer, and open communication of the issues that many are concerned about. The tone of the evening was very diplomatic and represented an honest search for clarity.
We are currently assembling the questions and concerns that emerged from that meeting, along with those that have been presented over the past couple of weeks via messages and emails, and will put them into a form that we can present to the administration and leadership of NWC. There are still dozens of faculty, students, and staff who feel that they don't have a voice in the current situation on campus, and they are hoping that we will be able to stimulate some real dialogue on how this division can be addressed and Northwestern healed.
We will keep you updated on the next steps. Thanks again for your support and prayers.