Regent University

Regent University
motto	Christian Leadership to Change the World
founding	1978
Sponsorship	Private
place	Virginia Beach , Virginia
President and Chancellor	Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson
Students	10,480 (2018)
Employee	1025 (2007)
including professors	633 (2007)
Website	www.regent.edu

Regent University, Robertson Hall

Regent University, student center

Regent University, park fountain

Regent University is a US evangelical university with its main campus in Virginia Beach . A satellite campus is located in Alexandria , Virginia.

The university was founded in 1977 by Pat Robertson under the name " CBN University". The following year university operations began with 77 students. Robertson is the university's chancellor to this day.

Regent awards degrees both to students who study on-site and through distance learning . Only the Juris Doctor can only be purchased on site.

Reputation from Regent University

Ranking

The Princeton Review ranks the university seventh in the country for quality of life and also ranks the university as the most conservative college in the United States.

Resignations of professors at the School of Psychology and Counseling

In June 2006, five of eleven faculty members at the School of Psychology and Counseling completed their jobs. In the years before, more and more professors had left. The remaining professors include Mark A. Yarhouse . According to an article in the Virginia Pilot newspaper , students and professors said that the faculty had punishments for certain expressions of morality. Individual professors who have left spoke of a climate of fear and intimidation, a toxic environment and a climate that undermines Christian values instead of promoting them. A petition circulated among students criticizing the practices and conduct of Dean Rosemarie Scotti Hughes and Pastoral Program Leader Rosemary Thompson.

In December 2007, School Dean Hughes offered mediation and promised a meeting, which some students disappointed as they asked for more change in the School of Psychology and Counseling . Hughes, however, stated that no further action would be taken.