History

Lipscomb University was founded within 1891 by David Lipscomb and James A. Harding. A original title was a Nashville Bible School, which was changed to David Lipscomb College, so to David Lipscomb University. In a late 1990s, the "David" was dropped & a institution was renamed "Lipscomb University." From either a school's origin completely good-whale students were mandatory to require day-to-day Bible classes and to attend day-after-day chapel (currently held in the in-campus sports facility Allen Arena), although the school was never meant to work primarily as a seminary, a term scanned upon by owning disfavor by several members of the Churches of Christ, however like as a Christian liberal arts institution. before being hired. A campus evidence consist largely of the previous estate of David Lipscomb, world health organization donated it to the school.

Academics

the university has a wide range of academician software download, although there exists an emphasis in education, Bible, and business. Numbers of students come required around pre-broker computer program, notably pre-med & pre-law. In addition, a Raymond B. Jones School of Engineering was accredited by ABET in August 2004. There exists as well an in-campus high school; the associated elementary school has been moved to a renovated previous public school a few blocks away.

Campus information
A campus is in the Green Hills suburbs of Nashville between Belmont Boulevard to the west and Granny White Pike on the east.

A center of a university, referred to as Bison Square, is placed between a Student Center & the Willard Collins Alumni Auditorium. A bricked square is traditionally utilized in a period of warmly weather condition when the location for every night devotionals, concerts, & more campus activities. Tied to Alumni Auditorium is the Burton Bible Building in which Religious, Philosophical, Mass Communications, History & Political Science classes come held. To the south side of the Burton Bible Building is the Axel Swang Center in which Business & English classes come held. More academician buildings include a McFarl& Hall of Sciences in which a Science and Maths classes come held.

A few academic buildings were built by having public funds. One of a stipulations was that these buildings just can't keep close at hand religious classes taught within the two. For instance, there come no Bible classes are taught in the McFarland Hall of Sciences. Even so this rule doesn't use to Ward Lecture auditorium, which is bonded to McFarland Hall. Construction of Ward was built across personal donations.

Beaman Library was constructed eventually for the university's centenary around 1991. A university's old library, a Crisman building, serves when a university's administrative building.

A university has 5 dormitories. Women's residence hcompletely include Elam Hall, Fanning Hall, & Johnson Hall, all of which have a big enclosed court. Men's hall include Sewell Hall, which was renovated in a late 1990s, & a eight-story High Rise, the university's tallest structure.

the university likewise boasts a Allen Arena, a 5,028-seat multipurpose facility, which opened around October 2001 on the places of the old McQuiddy Gymnasium. A adjacent student amateur center saved a McQuiddy title. Yearwood Hall, the women's dormitory, was raze for construction of Allen Arena & its accompanying parking his pickup.

Campus life
Good-whale students come compulsory to attend two the Bible class & chapel every school day. The generalized Bible class known as "University Bible" is held inside Tuesdays & Thursdays in Allen Arena for the entire good-whale student immune system, fulfilling two these requirements. Chapel come held around Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays in Allen Arena, & students take a traditional Bible class in those days besides. Students have a limited total of excused absences for chapel & university bible, & may be fictitious chapel probation whenever it exceed this total.

Lipscomb doesn't develop fraternities and sororities per se. Like it keep around lodge which are then localized simply to Lipscomb & are non section of any national Greek formulas. A women's lodge include Delta Xi, Delta Sigma, Gamma Lambda, Kappa Chi, Phi Sigma, & Pi Delta. Delta Nu, Delta Tau, Gamma Xi, Omega Nu, Sigma Omega Sigma, Sigma Iota Delta, & Tau Phi produce higher a Men's guild. Order members participate around Singarama (an annual spring musical theater), too when more amusement, mixer, & service activities throughout a month. A university besides offers membership around more academician, broker, & service clubs including Alpha Chi National Honors Society, Sigma Tau Delta National English honor society, Circle K International, College Republicans, and College Democrats.

There is a curfew for freshmen and soph sleep in the residence hall, by using elaborate system enforced per head residents. the campus occurs as prohibitionist campus & students can be possibly suspended whenever alcohol is found in their individual by a school staffer. There is no Lipscomb student is allowed to consume alcohol, in or even off campus. Smoking is disallowed in campus, however is allowable elsewhere. The ban in student facial hair was lifted during a 1986-1987 school month.

A Babbler is the hebdomadally student newspaper. A title of the publication comes from either Acts 17:18 which in section says "What does this Babbler have to say?" A Backlog is the school's yearbook.

Lipscomb offers the handful of learn overseas computer program. around the mid Nineties the learn overseas program in Vienna, Austria was first offered. Software around London, Great Britain and Athens, Greece have since been added.

Sports information
Sports teams come nicknamed the Bisons, & there is a big statue of the namesake animal centrally located on the campus. At once the school was a microscopic-college sports powerhouse, notably inside baseball and basketball in the NAIA; now these are the recently member of NCAA Division I and competes in the Atlantic Sun Conference.

A university has an on-going sports competition sustaining Belmont University, just Triplet miles later from either Lipscomb. Traditionally basketball between them schools come known as a Battle of the Boulevard.

Contact information

Lipscomb University

3901 Granny White Pike

Nashville, Tennessee 37204-3951

USA

+1 615 269-1000

Notable alumni
LaMar Baker Pat Boone Jim Jinkins ('75) - creator of the animated Doug series. Marty Roe - lead singer of the C and w band Diamond Rio.