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Campbellsville University, also known as CU, is a private university in Campbellsville, Kentucky, United States. Founded as Russell Creek Academy,〔University Catalog, 2009-2011 edition.〕 a Baptist institution, the university currently enrolls more than 3,000 students and is open to students of all denominations. The university offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees. In 2010, Campbellsville University was named no. 4 in U.S. News & World Report's list of "up and coming" schools in the South. Campbellsville University has been named last in ''U.S. News & World Report''s "Best Colleges" edition in the "Great Schools, Great Prices" category of the "Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the South." CU has been named 22nd in the "Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the South" category. In 2014, representatives from Campbellsville University met with Kentucky Baptist Convention leaders to report that the CU Board of Trustees voted to remove itself from its Covenant Agreement with the KBC. CU's Board Chairman Dr. Joseph L. Owens said, "Our actions will allow us to select our own trustees but these decisions in no way change the mission or the character of Campbellsville University. We look forward to discussing the new proposed agreement that will continue CU working with the KBC and its churches in areas of joint mission and ministry in the spirit of the Great Commandment and in following the command of the Great Commission."〔()〕 ==History== Campbellsville University was founded in 1906 by the Russell Creek Baptist Association. The president of the university is Michael V. Carter, Ph.D. The immediate past president is Kenneth W. Winters (born 1934), a Republican state senator from District 1 based in Murray in southwestern Kentucky. Before Winters, the president was William Randolph "Randy" Davenport of Campbellsville, who served 1969–1988. Fuller Harding, an attorney and former state representative from Campbellsville, served on the CU board of trustees for five years. His father, Abel Turner Harding (1881–1966), had been instrumental in raising funds to establish Russell Creek Academy, the forerunner of Campbellsville College.〔Calen McKinney, "CU Board of Trustees member, Fuller Harding, dies Jan. 10 at 94", ''The Campbellsvillian'', Vol. 8 No. 2 (June 2010), p. 19〕 Forest Shely, a physician in Campbellsville and a 1943 graduate of the former Campbellsville Junior College, served as a trustee of the university for the fifty-six years from 1954 until his death in 2010.〔Joan C. McKinney, "Campbellsville University Board of Trustee member since 1954, Dr. Forest F. Shely dies," ''The Campbellsvillian: The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Campbellsville University,'' Vol. 9, No. 2 (November 2010), p. 12〕 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「Campbellsville University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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