Type | Unaccredited |
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Established | 1972 |
Affiliation | Independent Fundamental Baptist |
Chancellor |
John Wilkerson |
President | Dave Douglass |
Vice-Chancellor | Ray Young |
Location | 8400 Burr Street Crown Point, Indiana 46307-1499 United States |
Colors | Blue and Yellow |
Sports | contact flag football, soccer, basketball, and volleyball |
Mascot | Lion |
Website | www.HylesAnderson.edu |
Coordinates: 41°27′57″N 87°24′17″W / 41.465833°N 87.404644°W
John Wilkerson
Hyles–Anderson College (HAC) is an unaccredited Independent Baptist college in unincorporated Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana. As a ministry of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, it focuses on training pastors, missionaries and Christian teachers to work in Independent Baptist schools.
In 1972, Hyles–Anderson College was founded by Jack Hyles with financial support from Russell Anderson. The school was originally located on a campus known as Baptist City in Schererville, Indiana. HAC's former campus was turned into Hammond Baptist K-12 school. This school is also operated by the First Baptist Church of Hammond.
The college's first president was Robert J. Billings, who later served as Ronald Reagan's "liaison to the fundamentalist Christian movement in the 1980 presidential campaign" and then spent six years in the U.S. Education Department as well as was a founding member of the Moral Majority.