Enrollment again hit record and near-record levels this fall at some colleges and universities associated with Churches of Christ. Harding University in Searcy, Ark., posted an all-time high enrollment for the 25th consecutive year, eclipsing 7,000 students. Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tenn., topped 4,000 students, marking a fifth straight year of record enrollment.

Dave Ramsey, personal money-management expert and national radio personality, has chosen Rochester College as his educational partner for an online, three-credit personal finance management course.

ROCHESTER HILLS, MICH. – Each semester, Rochester College President Rubel Shelly teaches a required freshman course called “Introduction to the Christian Faith.” At a college where less than a quarter of traditional undergraduate students identify with Churches of Christ, the class exposes some 18- and 19-year-olds to the Scriptures for the first time. Shelly chuckles as he recalls one student who came up after the final exam and asked the professor to sign his $9.95 copy of the New Revised Standard Version.

At Rochester College in Michigan, longtime head basketball coach Garth Pleasant is retiring. His successor has a familiar name. It’s his son Klint Pleasant, a former head coach at Abilene Christian University in Texas. Klint Pleasant isn’t just following his father on the basketball court. He also preaches at the Lake Orion Church of Christ, like his father did.

Garth Pleasant recently earned his 700th career victory as men’s basketball coach at Rochester College, a school that plays home games at area high schools because it doesn’t have its own arena, the Detroit Free Press reported. Pleasant, a 2008 inductee in the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan Hall of Fame, plans to retire after this season. He has been coaching at his alma mater, formerly Michigan Christian College, since 1979.

The Daily Tribune of Mount Clemens, Mich., reports: Jeremy King — a father of two with a third child on the way — died Tuesday afternoon while hunting in the area of Fagan and Lahring roads. Friends say it’s unclear if he fell from a 20-foot hunting platform or if some sort of medical issue caused him to fall or otherwise collapse. “Jeremy was the kind of guy who would do anything for anybody,” said Jason Steckel, minister of spiritual life at Rochester Church of Christ.

Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City has its second-highest enrollment ever this fall. Rochester College in Rochester Hills, Mich., reports a near-record enrollment and the largest influx of students in its 51-year history. Crowley’s Ridge College in Paragould, Ark., has recorded a 17 percent increase in fall enrollment. These are the latest enrollment figures to flow in from colleges and universities associated with Churches of Christ.