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Belmont University announces L. Gregory Jones as new president
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and last updated 2021-02-02 12:39:40-05
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) â Belmont Universityâs Board of Trustees has announced that L. Gregory Jones will become the new president of the university starting June 1.
According to a Monday news release, Jones will succeed former Belmont President Bob Fisher after Fisherâs retirement in May.
Jones is currently the dean of the Duke Divinity School, a position heâs held from 1997 through 2010 and again from 2018 to present. Between 2010 and 2018, he served as vice president and vice provost for global strategy at Duke University, as well as served at Baylor University.
Duke Divinity School dean tapped as Belmont University president
L. Gregory Jones, longtime dean of Duke Divinity School, will become the new president of Nashville s booming, nondenominational Belmont University.
February 1, 2021
The campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Photo by Lahti213/Creative Commons
DURHAM, North Carolina (RNS) L. Gregory Jones, the longtime dean of the United Methodist-affiliated Duke Divinity School, will become the new president of Belmont University, a nondenominational Christian school close to Music Row in Nashville.
Jones will succeed Belmont President Bob Fisher, who is retiring in May after two decades at the helm of the fast-growing university.
For many schools, the Master of Divinity degree is moving online for good
Duke Divinity School will begin offering a hybrid Master of Divinity degree with online classes and one-week in-person intensives cementing what has become a growing trend among most free-standing seminaries. Photo by Grant Whitty/Unsplash/Creative Commons
January 26, 2021
(RNS) Logan Lawrence had already been accepted to Duke Divinity School when she heard that the school would also be offering a mostly online version of the three-year Master of Divinity program beginning this fall.
She immediately called to ask if she could switch her enrollment to the so-called hybrid program that will require only one week of in-person classes each semester.