William Underwood, currently interim president of Baylor University (Texas), will be the next president of Mercer College (Ga.). Mercer, like Baylor, is an IHE with ties to the Baptist Church.William Underwood, currently interim president of Baylor University Baylor University, mainly at Waco, Tex.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1845 by Baptists (see Baylor, Robert E. B.) at Independence, moved 1886 and absorbed Waco Univ. (chartered 1861). The library has a noted Robert Browning collection. (Texas), will be the next president of Mercer mer·cer n. Chiefly British A dealer in textiles, especially silks. [Middle English, from Old French mercier, trader, from merz, merchandise, from Latin merx College (Ga.). Mercer, like Baylor, is an IHE IHE Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise IHE Institutions of Higher Education IHE International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (historical acronym only, replaced by: IHE Delft, the Foundation) with ties to the Baptist Church. Like Baylor, Mercer has worked in recent years to strike a balance between church influence and academic independence. |
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