Implement appropriate strategies to assist students to achieve their academic potential and provide superior student service.įaculty are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, participate in enriching the learning community and engage in formal and informal involvement in the student’s whole-life-training. Shelton, Republican former member of the Nevada Assembly.Provide instruction in assigned class(es) in accordance with applicable administrative policies and procedures, established instructional models, and course syllabus/syllabi as established by the Moody Bible Institute. Billie Wayne Lemons, Church of Christ minister Cleveland Browns football player in 1977.Chris Swinford, Vice President of Advancement .Doug Reeves, Dean of International Studies.Brad Pruitt, Vice President of Finance and Administration.Paul Dowell, Dean of Residential Studies.Tim Burow, President (the third person to hold the position, effective 2019).Cory Burns, Director of Adventures in Missions.Truitt Ellis Adair (born 1944), Chancellor the president from 1993 to 2019.The program requires time on the residential campus, in Lubbock for two intensive weeks. Administrators The MBS Degree Program is a 36-hour program, that includes a 6-hour thesis project. The program began with nine graduates in their first intensive week in April 2009. In 2009, Sunset began offering a Master of Biblical Studies degree. On May 23, 2009, the 78th class graduated with the newly instituted Bachelor of Bible Studies degrees. This authorizes the institute to legally grant religious degrees under the laws of the State of Texas. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, according to the provisions of the Texas Education Code, sub-chapter G, chapter 61, title 3, section 7.5 (g). In 2009, Sunset began to offer Texas-state approved Bachelor of Biblical Studies (BBS) degrees. The campaign concluded in 2008 raising over 13-million dollars. The institution launched a three-year, 12-million-dollar campaign in 2005 with the goal of preaching the Gospel to the world. There were fifty-five graduates at the residential school in Lubbock. The Fall River branch campus is known as the Sunset International Bible Institute Northeast (SIBI N/E). In 2002, Sunset celebrated its 40th anniversary with the opening of its first remote classroom location in Fall River, Massachusetts. In 2000, Sunset started its Evening School program and saw total enrollment at international branch schools surpass that of the Lubbock campus. In 2001, the school unveiled a new logo.
The school's 2,000th graduate was recognized in 1997. By 1995, there were eighty-seven women enrolled in various programs. A 1998 reorganization structured the school into three divisions: Residential, External, and International Studies. Īdventures In Missions had its largest class to date in 1993, with eighty-four students. In 1995, the name was again changed-to Sunset International Bible Institute-to reflect its worldwide scope. Paden remained in the capacity of "chancellor," a postfilled since 2019 by Adair. In 1992, Sunset launched its Small Church Growth Workshop and a video studio. Paden retired in 1993, and Adair became the new executive director. In 1990, Sunset launched an Extension School and began to translate courses into several languages. The following year, Sunset students participated in the first annual student trips into Mexico City. In 1984, the school purchased the "Pink House" for the training of missionaries in Mexico City. In addition, a new library and office addition was built with funds raised by alumni. New faces on the faculty included the future director, Truitt Adair. Paden (1924-2015), and Norman Gipson (1918–2007). īy 1980, student enrollment had topped three hundred annually, but reductions in federal military benefits thereafter reduced enrollment. New instructors joined the faculty, including Cline Paden's brother, Gerald S. In 1978, the 1,000th student graduated from Sunset. In addition to Spanish instruction, departments were established for teaching in Slavic and Chinese. Un 1977, Hollis Maynard developed a program for the deaf. Later in the decade, the school graduated its first women.
In 1973, the Adventures In Missions program was instituted for college-aged students. During the 1970s, Sunset launched correspondence courses through its extension department.