LIBERTY STUDENT NEWS

Charlie Skalaski, who was Liberty University’s football recruiting coordinator and wide receivers coach, has left the Flames coaching staff to join new Jacksonville Jaguars coach Mike Mularkey’s staff.

Skalaski was one of two assistant coaches that new LU coach Turner Gill retained off the previous staff. Marshall Roberts was the other. Skalaski has been at Liberty since 2003, when he worked under Ken Karcher as tight ends coach.

via NCT

LU recently raised concerns over possibly getting shortchanged on its share of federal and state subsidies provided to Greater Lynchburg Transit Co. (GLTC) and asked the transit system to revise its billing formula, newsadvance.com reported. The university also said the system’s charges were rising too quickly.

LU officials and GLTC board members agreed to work on a simpler approach to determine costs.

via N&A.

Liberty University’s Arts Theater Department is creating a professional theatre company.

The stage company Alluvion will have about 16 to 20 performances this year.

The stage company will be in the Tower Theater.

via WSET

Liberty University borrowed $100 million for an expansion of its campus, almost doubling its long-term debt.

The university, which has grown into one of the largest private colleges in the U.S. by increasing online enrollment, will use the money to help finance $225.2 million of capital projects planned around the campus in the next five years, according to sale documents. Work will include a library named for its founder, a baseball stadium and a school of health sciences, according to the documents distributed to investors.

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