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Trinity International University (TIU) is an evangelical Christian university headquartered in Bannockburn, Illinois. It comprises Trinity College, a theological seminary (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), a law school (Trinity Law School which is located in Santa Ana, California), and a camp called Timber-lee. The university also maintains campuses in North Lauderdale, Florida and Miami, Florida; the camp is located in East Troy, Wisconsin. TIU is the only university affiliated with Evangelical Free Church of America in the United States and enrolls 1,242 students. On February 17, 2023, TIU announced it was moving the undergraduate program to online modalities only and closed the residential campus at the end of the Spring 2023 semester. The online undergraduate program is ending at the end of the Spring 2024 semester.




History


Tracing its roots to 1897, TIU formed in the late 1940s as the result of a merger of two schools:

A school run by the Swedish Evangelical Free Church, founded in 1897 in Chicago, and incorporated as the Swedish Bible Institute of Chicago, then affiliated with Moody Bible Institute as the Swedish Department until 1925 when it became the Swedish Evangelical Free Church Bible Institute and Seminary.
A three-year Bible school, the Norwegian-Danish Bible Institute and Academy, founded in 1910 by the Norwegian-Danish Free Church, established in Rushford, Minnesota and later moving to Minneapolis and becoming Trinity Seminary and Bible Institute.
By 1949, the Minneapolis-based school moved to Chicago and the unified schools became known as Trinity Seminary and Bible College. In 1961 the school moved to a new campus in Bannockburn, Illinois, in Bannockburn, Illinois and a year later was renamed Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS) and Trinity College. The school grew from an enrollment of 51 in 1961 to 1,400 in 1990. In 1995, TEDS became part of Trinity International University, along with Trinity College in Deerfield, Illinois, and Trinity College in Miami, (formerly Miami Christian College which was obtained through a merger of the two institutions). In 1997 Trinity Law School, located in Santa Ana, California, was incorporated into Trinity International University, and the Trinity Graduate School was founded.
In 2014, David S. Dockery was elected unanimously as the 15th president of Trinity. He was inaugurated in October of that year. Nicholas Perrin was elected as the 16th president in June 2019. Kevin Kompelien succeeded Perrin as president on April 1, 2024.
Trinity Graduate School closed in 2024, along with the academic programs at TIU-Florida. Trinity College Online will close in May 2025. The undergraduate program for prisoners in Fox Lake, Wisconsin remains open. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Trinity Law School are operational.




Approvals, accreditations and memberships


Trinity International University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The divinity school is also programmatically accredited by the Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS).
TIU's law school, located in Santa Ana, California, is accredited by the Committee of Bar Examiners (CBE) of the State Bar of California (CALBAR). The normative nationwide USDE- and CHEA-approved accreditor of law schools is the American Bar Association (ABA). Within the state of California, though, law schools are also accredited by CALBAR CBE, which is neither USDE- or CHEA-approved. Graduates of non-ABA accredited program are not recognized outside of the state of California. TIU's Trinity Law School (Santa Ana campus only) is also included as part of TIU's regional accreditation by the USDE- and CHEA-approved NCA-HLC.
Trinity International University is exempt from the need to be approved to operate in Illinois by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), which lists it as a "private NFP (not-for-profit) institution". Its educational programs for K-12 teachers are approved by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) so that TIU's graduates from said programs may obtain state-issued teaching credentials. TIU is, further, approved by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC) (formerly the Illinois State Scholarship Commission (ISSC)) Monetary Award Program (MAP) so that TIU's students may receive Illinois educational grants and scholarships.
Prior to 2003, TIU's athletic trainer program was accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP); however in 2003 the accreditation of such programs was taken over by the Joint Review Committee on Athletic Training (JRC-AT); and in 2006 JRC-AT became the Committee for Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). TIU's undergraduate athletic training educational program claims CAATE accreditation on its website.
TIU is also a member of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), the Christian College Consortium (CCC), and the Christian Adult Higher Education Association (CAHEA).




Athletics


The Trinity International athletic teams were called the Trojans. Prior to the move to an all-online undergraduate academic format in 2023, the university university was a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) for most of its sports from 1996–97 until its move after 2022–23; while its football program competed in the Mideast League of the Mid-States Football Association (MSFA). They were also a member of the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA), primarily competing as an independent in the North Central Region of the Division I level.
Trinity International competed in nine intercollegiate varsity sports. Men's sports included baseball, basketball, football, soccer and volleyball. Women's sports included basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball.




= Accomplishments

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In 2022, women’s volleyball claimed the NCCAA D1 National Championship, making the title a program first and last.




Notable faculty


Carl F H Henry Systematic Theology
Kenneth Kantzer Theology
Wilbur M. Smith Bible Exposition
Gleason Archer Old Testament
Walter Kaiser Old Testament
Elmer Towns Religious Education and Evangelism
John Warwick Montgomery
Paul Feinberg Systematic Theology
Norman Geisler Philosophy
John D. Woodbridge Church History
D.A. Carson New Testament
Douglas Moo New Testament
William Lane Craig Philosophy
John Feinberg Systematic Theology
Kevin Vanhoozer Theology
Wayne Grudem New Testament
Harold Netland Philosophy of Religion, Missions
Richard Longenecker New Testament
Mark Noll Church History
Clark Pinnock Systematic Theology
John Gerstner Church History
Barry J. Beitzel Old Testament
Harold O. J. Brown Systematic Theology
Murray J. Harris New Testament




Notable alumni


Randall Balmer, Episcopal priest and John Phillips Professor in Religion, Dartmouth College
Ron Butler, television actor and comedian
Galen Carey, Vice President for Government Relations, National Association of Evangelicals
Lazarus Chakwera, sixth president of Malawi
Herb Coleman, American player of gridiron football
Paul Copan, Christian theologian, analytic philosopher, apologist, and author. Currently professor at the Palm Beach Atlantic University and holds the endowed Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics.
Norman Ericson, biblical scholar; Emeritus Professor at the Wheaton College
W. Kent Fuchs, President, University of Florida
Brian Hagedorn, attorney and judge; Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Karl Hankton, American player of gridiron football
Alan Heatherington, orchestra conductor and music director of several Chicago-area choirs and orchestras
Lincoln Hurst, biblical scholar, film historian; Emeritus Professor, University of California
Bill Hybels, founder of Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington, Illinois.
Sarah McCammon, journalist and author
John Senyonyi, Vice Chancellor, Uganda Christian University
Jeffrey Neil Steenson, coordinator for Episcopal priests and laypeople seeking to become Roman Catholics within a personal ordinariate
Danny Yamashiro, chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), researcher on American presidents and childhood trauma, and media talk show host
Ravi Zacharias, Christian apologist




References






External links


Official website

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