 1944 -- Lincoln Bible Institute (original name) is officially
chartered by the state of Illinois on May 4 at "10:30 a.m." -- the
only existing Bible college in America to begin during World War II.
1954 -- Lincoln turns 10, enrolls 417 students and receives
accreditation from AABC (now ABHE), one of the youngest and largest
Bible colleges in North America to do so.
1961 -- LBI becomes Lincoln Christian College on Dec. 31; the
grad school becomes Lincoln Christian Seminary (in 1984 the legal
name becomes Lincoln Christian College and Seminary).
1969 -- Lincoln turns 25, enrolls 827 students, raises $1 million
"to retire the debt," and founding President Earl Hargrove asks his
good friend Leon Appel to succeed him as president (in 1972).
1976 -- Lincoln launches its interdisciplinary studies (IDS)
program, names library after founding librarian Jessie C. Eury and
begins annual Lincolnland Bible Bowl Classic.
1988 -- Lincoln receives initial $19,500 grant from the Lilly
Endowment of Indianapolis, which has since given Lincoln more than
$1 million -- most for WorldviewEyes Institute led by Dr. Richard
Knopp.
1991 -- Lincoln receives regional accreditation, 30 years after
Hargrove first sought it -- the first Bible college president in
America to do so; the seminary also receives ATS accreditation.
1997 -- Lincoln launches
www.lccs.edu and bids farewell to founding President Earl
Hargrove, who goes home to glory on June 12.
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1999 -- Lincoln is named by the Templeton Foundation as one of the
select colleges in America that promote character development, based
on Dr. J.K. Jones's creative SFG program.
2001 -- Lincoln initiates an adult degree completion program,
LincUp, that has since grown to nearly 200 students in three
locations; it will become part of the new Hargrove School in 2009.
2002 -- Lincoln enrolls more than 1,000 students for the first
time in its history.
2007 -- Lincoln receives ABHE award as one of the four
fastest-growing Bible colleges in America.
2009 -- Lincoln is named by BCW Institute as a "Best Christian
Workplace," one of only seven Christian colleges and seminaries in
America to receive that distinction (based on employee responses).
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