17 Facts About Regent University

Regent University is a private Christian university in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Plans for the university, originally named Christian Broadcasting Network Regent University, began in 1977 by CBN founder and current Chancellor Pat Robertson.

In 1984, Regent University received accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

In 2000, Regent University began an undergraduate degree-completion curriculum under the auspices of a new program, the Center for Professional Studies.

Regent University Library Building houses the university's libraries while Robertson Hall is home to the Schools of Government, Law, and Undergraduate Studies.

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Regent University is ranked 21st, 46th, and 78th, respectively, for its online graduate education programs, online graduate business programs, and online MBA.

In 2006 and 2007, Regent University Law won several national ABA moot court and negotiation competitions succeeding against teams from Harvard and Yale.

In 1995, Harvey Cox, the Harvard theologian, wrote that Regent University has been called "the Harvard of the Christian Right" but noted that "Regent University, it appears, is not so much a boot camp for rightist cadres as a microcosm of the theological and intellectual turbulence within what is often mistakenly seen as a monolithic 'religious right' in America".

Cox pointed to historian Bruce Barron's suggestion that the Regent University faculty serve as a "moderating influence": "They are pragmatists who accept religious pluralism and do not insist on the universal applicability of Old Testament law" while preferring to focus on constitutional issues.

Regent University found that academic freedom was promoted and that although half of the student body considered themselves affiliated with renewal theology, there existed a wider range of political attitudes than he first imagined.

In September 2007, Adam Key, a second-year law student at Regent University, posted a lifted still from a video to the social networking website Facebook showing the school's chancellor, Pat Robertson, scratching his forehead with his middle finger.

Regent University rejected his argument and Key was suspended and removed.

In November 2007, Key filed a lawsuit against Regent University claiming fraud, violation of his right to free expression as governed by rules tied to federal funding, and defamation.

The judge ruled that despite federal funding, Regent University's decisions were not state actions and hence not governed by the First Amendment.

Regent University found that Robertson had not defamed Keys and that "generic recruiting correspondence" from the school could not be considered a contract and thereby dismissed the fraud complaint.

In October 2016, Regent University was the site of an October 2016 rally for presidential candidate Donald J Trump.

Regent University has 138 full-time and 48 part-time faculty members, who are graduates of Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Baylor, and others, five of whom are Fulbright Scholars.