HOUSTON — Houston Baptist University (HBU) trustees elected Robert Sloan, the controversial former president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, as president of the 2,300-student school Aug. 8.
Sloan will assume the presidency Sept. 1, becoming the school’s third president since its founding in 1960. Sloan, most recently chancellor of Baylor, the largest Baptist university in the world, was the school’s president from 1995 to 2005.
Sloan succeeds Doug Hodo, who served as HBU’s second president from 1987 until his retirement in June. HBU is a conservative school that relates to both Baptist conventions in Texas.
Trustee Chairman Ray Cox said Sloan “is a renowned Christian educator, scholar and author, and he possesses the leadership skills and vision for Christian higher education that make him the perfect choice to lead HBU into the future.”
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