历史
Learn how King’s has brought Christ’s Gospel into the public square.
我们的历史
从博士. 珀西克劳福德’s nationwide television show, Youth on the March, to Dr. 罗伯特·库克的广播节目, 国王的时刻, the College has always sought to bring the light of Christ’s Gospel into the public square. We thank God for his faithfulness.
Dr. 克劳福德的愿景
The King’s College opens in Belmar, N.J. Its campus is on an estate built by the wireless inventor and Italian aristocrat Guglielmo Marconi, 以及它的使命, 福音传道者Dr. 珀西克劳福德, is to prepare young men and women with a liberal arts education to make a difference for Christ.
二战
The College moves to New Castle, Del., in pursuit of state accreditation, selling the Belmar campus to the United States government for top-secret radar research. Many male King’s students and faculty enlist in the armed forces as 二战 advances in Europe, and the remaining female students joke about renaming themselves Queen’s College. The new campus is the historic Reybold estate, centered on a mansion called Lexington.
荆棘崖时代开始了
Land acquisitions by the Tidewater Oil Company surround the King’s campus, and Tidewater requests that the College’s property be rezoned for industrial use. King’s loses the zoning appeal in court and is forced to sell the campus. 无所畏惧,博士. Crawford locates a real estate opportunity in Briarcliff Lodge, a former luxury resort in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.
今日与王同行
在博士. 克劳福德于1960年去世. 罗伯特一个. 烹饪。, former president of Youth for Christ International, becomes the second president of The King’s College. During his 23-year presidency, the College changes the lives of hundreds of young people. 国王的时刻 radio program is broadcast from the King’s campus beginning in 1963, and Dr. 库克于1985年退休.
专员的信念
After King’s closes due to financial burdens, the deputy commissioner at the New York State Board of Education chooses to leave the College’s legal charter in force, believing that the state needed Christian institutions of higher education. 弗里德海姆·拉德兰特总统, 他的妻子伊丽莎白, and volunteers continue working to reopen the College.
帝国心态
Dr. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, sends J. Stanley 奥克斯 to support and resource Dr. Radandt’s efforts to reopen King’s, and, consistent with Dr. Radandt’s own goals, to develop a leadership emphasis at King’s. New York City becomes increasingly prominent in their plans.
继承博士. 安德森的使命
The board of directors of Northeastern Bible College of Essex Fells, N.J., decides to give the institution’s financial assets and alumni to King’s. Northeastern, founded in 1950 by Dr. 查尔斯W. 安德森, had closed in 1990 because of declining enrollment and financial stress, and was required by its by-laws to give its assets to a like-minded organization in the event of closure.
复兴经典
King’s starts classes in the Empire State Building with 17 students. 奥克斯, a graduate in Classical Greek from the University of Minnesota and in Political Theory from the University of Dallas, develops the leadership potential of King’s through a new core curriculum in Politics, 哲学, 和经济学, 在医生的帮助下. Peter Wood of Boston University.
房屋制度
Dr. Radandt retires, and Stan 奥克斯 steps up as fourth president of King’s. The King’s curriculum is reorganized around PPE, and the 房屋系统 is designed soon afterward to cultivate community, 灌输基督教品格, 支持学术卓越, and bring the disciplines of leadership to life outside the classroom.
金融区
The College relocates to the Financial District, renting from the United Federation of Teachers in the heart of New York City’s most historic neighborhood.
丰富精神生活
Dr. 格雷戈里·艾伦·索恩伯里, dean of the theology school at Union University, becomes the sixth president of The King’s College. Under his tenure, King’s rejoins the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities and the College reorganizes spiritual life efforts, launching The King’s Liturgy and January’s annual Day of Service.
奥基夫学生会
欧洲杯买球app宣布了3年的计划,200 square feet of new rented space for student life, made possible by a gift from the Esther B. 奥基夫慈善基金会. The 奥基夫学生会 is dedicated on November 17, 2015.
神赐给我们新建筑
President Tim Gibson announces that King’s has purchased the former Riff Hotel as a new student residence, the College’s first Manhattan real estate purchase. The building now provides on-campus housing for students in the Houses of Susan B. 安东尼和克拉拉·巴顿.
认证
The King’s College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.