Liberty ‘phenomenon’ featured in 2016 State of the Commonwealth Report

The 2016 State of the Commonwealth Report features a 20-page article on the Liberty University’s explosive growth and “burst into prominence” over the last decade. The report is produced by the Center for Economic Analysis and Policy at Old Dominion University and is jointly sponsored by ODU’s Strome College of Business and the Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

James V. Koch, Board of Visitors Professor of Economics and President Emeritus in the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University, highlighted many areas of the university and plans for the future as it becomes the Evangelical Protestant equivalent of the University of Notre Dame for Roman Catholics and Brigham Young University for Mormons.

In the report, an unnamed senior higher education official based in Washington, D.C., heaps the following praise: “Liberty University is nothing less than a marvel. There are few stories like it in the entire history of higher education. They are teaching lessons to my institutions on a daily basis.”