http://mbcpathway.com/2017/09/28/breaki ... -home-mbu/This is from the
Pathway, the MBC publication. So it looks like the University and the Baptist Home both have an appeal avenue still open to them, the same one the Foundation took earlier. Most of the pastor friends I have in Missouri now are retired, though a couple still keep up with convention business. What I hear is that where it goes may be a coin flip. There's not an expectation that MBU will ever return to convention control, but the convention doesn't have the money to keep fighting the court battle. It is, in fact, in debt now because of it.
This is a case where the moderates took over an institution that was struggling with enrollment, having trouble paying bills, maintaining buildings and staying afloat, and since they gained control, enrollment has doubled, the school is out of debt, expanding endowment, making investments, establishing branch campuses and is the largest of the Baptist-affiliated colleges in the state, and among the most reasonable when it comes to cost. In a time when private, church related colleges are closing their doors and struggling at best, they're thriving and growing. That's something that most schools want to keep going.