CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Former Louisiana College Professor Dr. Scott Culpepper: Fire Joe Aguillard

    Dr. Scott Culpepper is currently an Associate Professor of History at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. Dr. Culpepper is a graduate of Louisiana College and Baylor University and from 2007 until 2012, he served as an Associate Professor of History at Louisiana College. Yesterday, he published a stunningly candid open letter to LC’s Board of Trustees. Republished with permission: Ladies and Gentlemen of the Louisiana College Board of Trustees, As an alumnus (1996) and a former faculty member (2007-2012) of Louisiana College, I urge you to take decisive action to restore the academic and spiritual integrity of our college…

  • Louisiana College Announces Emergency Board Meeting on February 25th; Here’s the LC Board

    According the website Blow the Whistle, L.C., Louisiana College just announced an unprecedented emergency board meeting, ostensibly to discuss the recent controversies related to President Joe Aguillard’s decision to refuse to extend the contracts of three divinity school professors who allegedly have advanced and espoused a type of Calvinism in their scholarship and his administration’s decision to actively investigate graduate divinity school students for criticizing Aguillard’s decisions, apparently alleging that these students may have violated the Student Handbook, which prohibits students from saying anything and everything that may be perceived to be “disparaging” against the school, an Orwellian and dictatorially broad statement…

  • Louisiana College Blocks Websites Critical Of Joe Aguillard, Investigates Students For “Disparaging Comments”

    A few hours ago, Louisiana College graduate student Joshua Breland reported that his website, The Daily Bleat, and two other sites, SBC Heritage and LCStudents.org, have been blocked from the campus internet service and that he and another graduate student, Drew Wales, are now under active investigation for violating the Student Handbook. Mr. Breland and Mr. Wales, both of whom are enrolled in LC’s Caskey School of Divinity, published articles criticizing President Joe Aguillard for not renewing the contracts of three professors because the professors believe in Calvinism. Aguillard has never disputed the characterization; instead, he published an article on…