Regent University

Pat Robertson's Regent University Gets Bailout

Regent University is the Virginia Beach-based school founded by televangelist Pat Robertson to educate a new generation of conservative Christians for leadership roles in politics and society, and it has enjoyed much success: Virginia's new governor, Bob McDonnell, is a Regent grad and a rising star in the Republican Party, and George W. Bush hired some 150 Regent grads to work in his administration. (Though at least one famous example, Monica Goodling of the attorneys general firing controversy, didn't work out so well.) But influential alums are not translating into fundraising gains for ...

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