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Not immune to the tumbling economy, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is cutting some programs and has closed its preschool child-care center.

A federal judge has ordered the Santa Rosa County School District to stop promoting religion and prayer in the classroom and at school events.

Leaders in Christian higher education could be in for an easier time under Barack Obama's administration than they had under George Bush. Under Bush's administration, the federal government became increasingly involved in accreditation for higher education, said Paul Corts, president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Corts and others in Christian higher education are hopeful that the Obama administration will back off from further involvement.

The New York Post reports that the Clear Stream Avenue Elementary School will not be changing its name to honor President-elect Barack Obama.

KMBC in Kansas City reports that on a reverend in Blue Springs, Missouri who removed books related to President-elect Barack Obama from the Catholic school's library because of his position on abortion:

When 85 new students enrolled this fall at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, the numbers were "beyond our wildest dreams," said President Duane Larson. But the Lutheran school's board, looking at a 35 percent drop in its endowment value and a similar decline in individuals gifts, also had to face up to stark financial realities.

Bob Jones University is apologizing for racist policies that included a one-time ban on interracial dating and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.

Oral Roberts University will lay off about 100 employees, days after it agreed to a near-$450,000 separation agreement with its former president who resigned amid a spending scandal.

For 15 years, Cascade College in Portland, Ore., struggled to find the fuels that any college needs: students to pay tuition, and donors to help build an endowment. Then came the global economic meltdown, and suddenly that struggle became an impossibility.