Tennessee Temple University is a four-year private Christian university, with its focus on liberal arts education, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Operating there, also, is Temple Baptist Seminary, the university's graduate school of Christian theology. Lee Roberson led Highland Park Baptist Church in the creation of the Tennessee Temple schools in 1946. Originally a two-year college and Bible school, it soon expanded to a four-year college, Bible school, and seminary. University status was granted in 1979; and in 1984 Temple became accredited by the American Association of Bible Colleges (now known as ABHE). Since September 2000, however, Tennessee Temple University has been accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS). Both ABHE and TRACS are accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. In 2005, Danny Lovett, the former dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, became Temple's new president.