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News report: Truett’s David Garland is Baylor’s interim president
A local news report says David Garland, dean of Baylor University’s Truett Seminary, will be Baylor’s interim president.
Garland, contacted by the Tribune-Herald Tuesday night, denied he had been interviewed for the post and said Baylor regents had not voted to make him interim president.
He said any report about his becoming interim president is “premature.”
“Nobody’s talked to me about it,” he said.
Garland did say, however, that Baylor would likely make an announcement Wednesday about the post.
In its 10 p.m. broadcast, KXXV-TV, Channel 25, said its sources at Baylor stated Garland would be announced as interim president on Wednesday.
Baylor has been overseen by acting president Harold Cunningham, former regent chairman, since the board dismissed John Lilley as president earlier this summer.
According to a 2007 biography in the Associated Baptist Press, Garland came to Truett in 1997 after a 20-year career teaching at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. He and wife, Diana, left that school after leaders there decided to close the school of social work, where Diana Garland was dean.
Diana Garland is now dean of the Baylor School of Social Work.
David Garland is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and a Navy veteran, the Associated Baptist Press bio says. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from Southern Seminary and has done postgraduate work at universities in Germany and Australia.
The Garlands have two adult children and belong to Calvary Baptist Church in Waco.
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By Great Move
August 19, 2008 11:03 PM | Link to this
If the report is accurate, then Baylor just made a brilliant move. And by my reckoning, that makes two after naming Elizabeth Davis Interim Provost. Those two decisions are quite possibly the best ones Baylor’s made in decades. Way to go, BU, and congratulations Dr. Garland.
By Fred
August 19, 2008 11:04 PM | Link to this
Much Ado About Nothing. The Trib may be “up for sale” but the Trib still kisses Baylor Butt.
By Waco. We do-do.
August 19, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this
1) Where have we heard this before? Oh, yeah- Sloan… Guess nobody in the science department measures up. Deja vu. So much for a rational explanation of the 15 foot turtle shell in the Mayborn…. 2) Well, if he does get named tomorrow, he is starting off like most, with a big fat lie. Typical.
By Try Education
August 19, 2008 11:36 PM | Link to this
Seriously, doo-doo, give it a try. If you knew anything about David Garland you’d know how ignorant that statement was. But really, congratulations on the ignorant stereotyping of Christians. Well done.
By Baylor Fan
August 20, 2008 1:47 AM | Link to this
Now let’s go find a serious academic out there with Baylor ties to lead Baylor to Tier 1 Status…not a preacher who will focus too much attention on forced, cheap, surface-level religiosity.
By JPF
August 20, 2008 3:52 AM | Link to this
David Garland is a serious, gifted, open-minded scholar, with high integrity, not some pious hack. There is nothing that Dr. Garland does that falls within the rubric of “surface-level religiosity.” Moreover, he has the greatest concern for students’ well-being and success. As a former student, I know this to be true. Being a biblical scholar and applying one’s intelligence to the study of Scripture does not equate in any way with closed-minded fundamentalism. Do not condemn a person whom you do not know!
By Fred
August 20, 2008 5:52 AM | Link to this
Baylor couldn’t make “top-tier” on Bevo’s behind.
By Fred's Mom
August 20, 2008 6:17 AM | Link to this
Fred, have you talked to anyone about anger management? Perhaps medication could help.
By Concerned Bear
August 20, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this
I have to agree with Baylor Fan, although not quite as angrily. Everyone knows Baylor is a Christian institution. Guess what … Baylor also has science! In fact, developing and actively promoting scientific research is going to get BU to top-tier status more prominently than theology in my opinion. It would have been nice to for once to put a person in charge who has experience with what kind of funding, equipment, & facilities (AND COMPUTERS) scientific research requires. Hopefully he’ll ask the right questions to the right people.
Right now BU identifies itself in being a Christian school that also does some research. Becoming a research university that happens to be Christian is what Top Tier means. Good luck Dr. Garland.