The Council for the Study of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was formed in 2002 at Claremont Graduate University to help advance Mormon Studies at the University’s School of Religion. The Council has already begun to fulfill this mission by sponsoring lectures, conferences and courses. Its work will reach a new milestone with the establishment and continued support of the Howard W. Hunter Chair in Mormon Studies.

The Howard W. Hunter Foundation, a California non-profit, tax-exempt corporation, was formed on February 15, 2006 in support of this Claremont Graduate University program. It will endow a chair and a Center for Mormon Studies with the accompanying graduate program.