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Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College is a Christian liberal arts college in Moore, Oklahoma, offering several associate's and bachelor's degree programs and a master's degree program in ministry. In 2013 it had an enrollment of 226.〔http://www.cappex.com/colleges/Hillsdale-Free-Will-Baptist-College〕 ==History== Free Will Baptists envisioned an institution of Christian higher education in Oklahoma, even before statehood. The records of the Indian Territory Association of Free Will Baptists (1905) read: “We believe in encouraging a higher system of education among the Free Will Baptists.” The merger of the northern movement of Free Will Baptists (known also as the Randall Movement, Free Baptists, or Anti-slavery Baptists) with Northern Baptists in 1911, left a scattered remnant of churches which did not participate in the merger, and those churches lost access to the historic Free Will Baptist schools, such as, Bates College in Maine and Hillsdale College in Michigan. However, the educational void was filled when the Co-operative General Association of Free Will Baptists in the west opened Tecumseh College in Tecumseh, Oklahoma in 1917. The first president was John H. Wolfe, a graduate of Hillsdale College in Michigan. The school was destroyed by fire in 1927 and was never completely rebuilt due to the depression, dust bowl days, World War II, and the Korean Conflict. During the decades after the fire at Tecumseh College, the churches of Oklahoma continued to keep the higher education dream alive. Numerous resolutions over the decades encourage support of and participation in the Bible Institute sponsored by the Oklahoma State Association of Free Will Baptists. A series of Bible institutes were taught in the various geographic areas by a rotation through the districts associations, but Oklahoma Free Will Baptists had a vision for an institution of higher learning These Bible institutes eventually developed into Oklahoma Bible College (OBC). The official launch of OBC began in the basement of the First Free Will Baptist Church in Tulsa in January, 1959. In a quest to find a permanent home for the infant college, it was moved to Wagoner in the fall of 1959, then to the Northwest Free Will Baptist Church in Oklahoma City in the fall of 1961, and finally to the Capitol Hill Free Will Baptist Church of Oklahoma City in the fall of 1962. On September 13, 1966, the college began operations on the present campus located three miles south of Moore, Oklahoma. An early president of the college, Dr. Don W. Payne (1961-1966), noted that the college began with “no library, no equipment, no facilities, no income, yet had one priceless asset: a company of committed Christians with an urgent sense of mission, persons of purpose and zeal, confident that God is all-sufficient.” Having secured a permanent home for the college, the founding church articulated a vision of higher education which embraced the study of the liberal arts. In a symbolic gesture, the governing board renamed the institution Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College in honor of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, which began as a Free Will Baptist institution in 1844. (Hillsdale College in Michigan is no longer affiliated with Free Will Baptists.) While Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College continues to educate men and women to support the ministry and mission opportunities of Free Will Baptists world-wide, the enrollment of students in non-ministry degree programs has proliferated through the years. Randall Graduate School began operations in 2004 with Dr. Stephen M. Ashby as its founding Dean. The School is named in honor of Benjamin Randall, American Revolutionary War veteran, who founded an indigenous religious tradition known as the Free Will Baptist Churches in New England during the late 1700s. Randall Graduate School offers a Master of Arts in Ministry and a Master in Public Administration (MPA). Oklahoma Teacher Certification In 2013 the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation approved Hillsdale to offer both Elementary Education and Secondary Education programs for Oklahoma Teacher Certification. The Secondary Teacher Education degree includes concentrations in Business, English, Math, and Social Studies. The college is affiliated with the National Association of Free Will Baptists and is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools.〔http://tracs.org/accredited.htm〕 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「Hillsdale Free Will Baptist College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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