Presbyterian Mission Agency Agnes Scott College Archives

APCU launches leadership development institute

Posted August 16th, 2022

During Jeff Arnold’s seven years as executive director of the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities 52 of the APCU’s 54 member schools have replaced their president. On average, presidents leave APCU institutions every four and half years.

J. Phillips Noble, a civil rights activist who helped guide the Board of Pensions after reunion, dies at age 100

Posted March 16th, 2022

The Rev. James Phillips Noble, a distinguished Presbyterian minister and civil rights activist who helped guide The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) through the Presbyterian reunion, died March 12, 2022, in Decatur, Georgia. He was 100 years old.

Eileene MacFalls, a Presbyterian devoted to social justice, dies at 81

Posted June 2nd, 2019

The Rev. Mark Baridon remembers the Wednesday that Eileene MacFalls calmed tension during the midday prayer and lunch served up each week by a group of downtown Louisville churches. Those churches include Central Presbyterian Church, which Baridon serves as co-pastor and where MacFalls attended.

Go and build kinder, more compassionate communities

Posted February 6th, 2019

Nearly 1,000 college-aged students and their UKirk pastors and leaders began the new year together at the annual College Conference held last month at the Montreat Conference Center in Monreat, N.C.

South Korea’s Hannam University joins the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities

Posted October 20th, 2016

Hannam University in Daejeon, South Korea—consistently recognized as one of Asia’s best Christian universities—is the first school outside the U.S. and Puerto Rico to join the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities (APCU) as a full voting member.