(September 20, 2006)—Former Baylor University President Robert Sloan will be inaugurated in November as the third president of Houston Baptist University.

Sloan assumed the presidency of the university on Sept. 1.

He will be inaugurated on Nov. 28.

HBU trustees named Sloan president on Aug. 8 to replace longtime HBU President E. D. “Doug” Hodo, who stepped down in June after serving as president for 19 years.

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Sloan had served as Baylor’s chancellor since last year after serving ten years as the university's president.

The Coleman-born, Abilene-reared Baylor alumnus holds a master of divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a doctorate in divinity from the University of Basel in Switzerland.

Saying he had become a lightning rod for controversy, Sloan and university regents agreed in January 2005 that he would step down to become chancellor effective June 1, 2005.

Sloan’s departure from the president’s office was the last chapter in a festering controversy that pitted faculty against faculty and graduate against graduate in a debate over everything from hiring practices to indebtedness and tuition rates.

Divisions notwithstanding, Sloan unquestionably left his mark on the university.

Under Sloan’s administration, enrollment grew from 12,202 in the fall of 1995 to 13,799 in the fall of 2004 and the average SAT score of entering freshmen improved during the same period from 1160 to 1190.

Minority enrollment increased by almost 5 percent during Sloan’s tenure and graduate student enrollment on the Waco campus reached an all-time high in the fall of 2004.

Almost $400 million in new facilities were constructed during Sloan’s presidency including the new sciences building, residential village and parking garages.

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