Liberty University Taps S.C. College Leader, Air Force Veteran as President

Liberty University (VA) on Friday named retired Maj. Gen. Dondi E. Costin, the president of Charleston Southern University in South Carolina who served 32 years in the U.S. Air Force, as the next president of the influential evangelical school in Virginia. The university also said Pastor Jonathan Falwell will serve as the third chancellor of Liberty, a school that has long been a center of political and cultural power for the Christian right.