campus of Cleveland's First Baptist Church for $5 million to house a performance venue, Pangle Hall, and the School of Business. A chapel and communications building were completed in the early 2010s. In 2013, a Lee University choir sang at the second inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama. Lee began a School of Nursing in 2014 and finished a building for the department two years later. The university filed an amicus brief in favor of employment discrimination against LGBT people in the court case Bostock v. Clayton County in 2019. Enrollment waned in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and in 2023 the university closed all of its older, communal-style dorms for two years of renovations. Nora Chambers Hall remains closed as of 2025. The university suffered a cybersecurity data breach in March 2024. Groundbreaking on the university's new $15 million, 30,000-square-foot School of Engineering building is expected in summer 2025.
=== Presidents ===
Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson (1918–1922) [Church of God General …
