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Reverend Jerry Falwell, the fundamentalist evangelist who heads Moral Majority, Inc., founded Liberty Baptist College in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1971. The College is one of the educational ministries of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, which Falwell organized in 1956. Most of the financial support for the college comes from Falwell's television ministry, the Old Time Gospel Hour and from the church, which has 19,000 local members. From only 150 students in 1971, Liberty Baptist's enrollment now exceeds 3,500 students. The fulltime faculty number 150 and represent a philosophically homogeneous academic community. Each prospective student, as a requirement for admission, must submit a statement of salvation experience attesting that he has received Christ as his personal Saviour.' Once admitted, a student must join Thomas Road Church and attend chapel three times a week. Faculty members also must ascribe to fundamentalist beliefs and attend chapel.2 In 1980, Liberty Baptist petitioned the Virginia Board of Education to approve a number of its programs so that the college's students could be certified to teach in the public schools. Approval was sought for elementary education, history, social science, mathematics, business education, music, English, physical education, and biology. For programs to be approved for teacher training in Virginia, a petitioning college must first conduct a self study of its own programs, following state

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