Bob Jones University (BJU) is a private, non-denominational Protestant university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States, known for its conservative cultural and religious positions.It has approximately 2,800 students, and it is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) and the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools.It is a Christian university in Greenville, South Carolina, and traces its history to 1927 when it was founded by Bob Jones, Sr, an evangelist and revival-preacher.The current president of the university is Bob Jones III, grandson of the founder.The IRS again notified the University on April 16, 1975 of the proposed revocation.Officially, the IRS revoked the University's tax exempt status on January 19, 1976."Neither petitioner qualifies as a tax-exempt organization...[i]t would be wholly incompatible with the concepts underlying tax exemption to grant tax-exempt status to racially discriminatory private educational entities.



He began collecting after World War II, and concentrated on Italian Baroque painters. On the day of Bush's visit, he denounced the school's policy of banning interracial dating, noting that his brother Jeb Bush could not have dated his wife (who is Latina) if he had attended the school.Jones said that although he had been averse to naming the school after himself, his friends overcame his reluctance "with the argument that the school would be called by that name because of my connection with it, and to attempt to give it any other name would confuse the people."Bob Jones took no salary from the college and helped support the school with personal savings and income from his evangelistic campaigns. The Florida land boom had peaked in 1925, and a hurricane in September 1926 further reduced land values. Bob Jones College barely survived bankruptcy and its move to Cleveland, Tennessee in 1933. Bob Jones University (BJU) is the largest private liberal arts university in South Carolina.This case was decided together with Goldsboro Christian Schools Inc. United States, in which Goldsboro maintained a racially discriminatory admissions policy based upon its interpretation of the Bible, accepting for the most part only Caucasian students.The IRS determined that Goldsboro was not an exempt organization and hence was required to pay federal social security and unemployment taxes. Bibliographies NNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references.It sits on a 225-acre campus, has a staff of 1,800 and a student body of 5,000, and offers degrees in 150 majors, plus additional schools from kindergarten through 12th grade.The college, like many other Fundamentalist Christianity Christian schools, has not sought accreditation due to concerns about governmental control over policy or curriculum.