With Olivet University in Jeopardy, David Jang’s Sect Promotes New College
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ontroversial pastor David Jang’s disciples are pursuing accreditation for a new college as the sect’s flagship school, Olivet University—accused in lawsuits of racketeering and trafficking foreign students—faces the prospect of losing its degree-granting status.
Great Commission University, an Indiana-based institution run by members of Jang’s sect, has achieved candidate status with the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS), the association said. It is the fifth step in an eight-stage process that would give Great Commission a long-term license to grant degrees, a status currently held by Olivet University, which was founded by Jang in 2000.
According to separate lawsuits, Olivet University is part of a web of churches, companies and colleges run by members of Jang’s World Olivet Assembly, who are accused of using the college to bring in foreign students, forcing them to work for little or no pay and funneling the proceeds in racketeering schemes into real estate and other projects run by the sect.
Newsweek spoke to two former Chinese students who alleged that they were exploited as part of a scheme like those outlined in the lawsuits. Olivet has denied all allegations made against it in the lawsuits as well as previous allegations by former students.
Olivet University and Great Commission University did not respond to Newsweek’srequests for comment on this article.
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