[Sly Fox]

Academic facility upgrades are high priority for LU

posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 by By Teresa Dunham | in General News

Liberty University is proud of its new Ultimate LU initiative to offer a wide variety of cutting-edge extracurricular activities — but Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said LU will not sacrifice academics or spiritual life to make those projects a reality.

“Academics and spiritual life will always take priority over recreation,” he said Wednesday. “Liberty’s mission has always been to teach students not just how to make a living but how to live. And that includes every aspect of life: spiritual, academic, physical — body, mind and spirit.”

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[Cider Jim]

Liberty University is freezing enrollment at 11,500 for the next year or two to allow the school to focus on academic facility upgrades, he said. LU spent over $10 million to fund more than 20 academic facility improvements this year alone, Falwell said...LU is also in the sixth year of an eight-year comprehensive pay increase plan for its faculty in order to attract and retain highly qualified educators.

[Rooster Cogburn]

You sure they are talking about you? I kid I kid!

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He emphasized that many of the facilities being constructed for Ultimate LU are covered by donations. A local alumnus is paying for construction of a $1.1 million indoor soccer facility, and the $2 million-plus Snowflex is being covered by an out-of-state donor.

Jr is the man.