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Bethany University was a four-year private Christian university located in Scotts Valley, California in Santa Cruz County. It operated from 1919 until closing in 2011 and was endorsed by the Assemblies of God USA, a Pentecostal denomination, and was the denomination's oldest college at the time of its closure. It was formerly called Glad Tidings Bible Institute, Bethany Bible College and Bethany College. It fielded athletic teams, known as the Bruins, and was a member of the NAIA in the California Pacific Conference. ==History== Bethany University was the oldest of the several Assemblies of God institutions of higher education. It was founded in 1919 as Glad Tidings Bible Institute at 1280 Webster Street, San Francisco, California to be the training school for an inner-city ministry in San Francisco conducted by Robert and Mary Craig. It moved to Scotts Valley, California in 1950. In 1955 it became Bethany Bible College. It became Bethany University in 2005.〔Santa Cruz County Place Names by Donald Thomas Clark. Kestral Press, 2008.〕 Enrollment during the 2010–11 academic year was down to approximately 400 students, a decrease from over 500 in previous years.〔(Bethany University | About Bethany - Facts )〕 In addition to a drop in enrollment, the university decreased faculty down to 22 full-time faculty and 50 adjunct faculty in its final years.〔 On June 13, 2011, the university announced plans to close the university effective immediately. Years of poor financial management, poor administrative leadership, and low enrollment were cited as the causes of the university's closing. Not long after the closure announcement, a San Francisco-based Christian institution, Olivet University, announced that it would lease the Bethany campus and hold its classes there, with the intent to acquire both the Bethany campus and the nearby former headquarters complex of Borland Software for its worldwide headquarters, but those deals fell through by May 2012; Olivet vacated the Bethany campus at that time and remains based in San Francisco. The Bethany campus buildings and grounds were put up for sale by the regional leadership of the Assemblies of God denomination. Bethany University was accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) through August 11, 2011.〔http://www.wascsenior.org/files/CLOSED-MERGED-TERMINATED%20Institutions%20Aug%202011_0.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bethany University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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