Many parents like and trust Wilkerson. They also still agree with the philosophies that are taught and practiced there.
Obviously, these parents are what we would consider today as ULTRA conservative. I went to HAC almost 50 years ago and I guess we were ultra conservative, even for those times.
I think Pensacola Christian College continues to benefit from the enrollment struggles of other Conservative Christian colleges. Their academics seem to be as good as any Christian college and their student satisfaction rate is very high. Their enrollment seems to be generally flat for the past 5 years at around 4600 students.
My kid might be going to PCC in a couple years. She’s visited and seems to like it. She’s planning on doing nursing, and apparently they have a top notch nursing program with a high NCLEX passage rate in Florida. We’ll see…a couple more years to think about it, otherwise it’ll be commuter school. Liberty U is out of our price range.
I have a friend with a daughter who went to Maranatha. It is a really good school from what I heard. In our case, I think she’s wanting to stay either in Florida or near. I’m willing to stretch to Georgia and Alabama, but her mom wants her to stay in state somewhere, so most likely she’ll go to PCC or just commute to a state school. I’d like her to go away for a year at least and do some maturing and then decide if she wants to stay at PCC or live at home and commute.
PCC's nursing program has always been held in high regard. I remember back in the 80s, it was well spoken of amongst both the Catholic and the Baptist hospitals in the area.
I guess I'd have to hear the message in order to comment intelligently but who wouldn't fall into despair when involved in such continual spiritual warfare? Not saying we should knock and ridicule clinical depression which often has to do with our diet and unnatural environment but I believe there is sufficient information if the preacher would just stick to the text!
I have heard such a message from various evangelical churches. It surprised me to hear such a message coming from a pulpit at Campus Church. I wouldn't say there was anything that heretical; I thought it was rather well balanced though I remember hearing some stuff I didn't agree with... Can't recall... I found the notes from that night during a recent house cleaning. I tossed them figuring I wouldn't be referring to them in the future. I thought the speaker used quite a bit of what some hardliners would call psychobabble.
I’ve always heard this as well. I don’t know a lot about nursing school, but from what I understand, their students have a very high passage rate on the nursing board exam, and also have a special accreditation for the nursing school.
For us, it really boils down to money. Our goal is to avoid any loans, or at least a very minimal amount of loans. Unfortunately, that means most Christian colleges are out of the question. PCC has a good accredited nursing school, so it’s either that or she’ll need to live at home and commute to state university. We also have a very good Catholic university near us that I’m considering, but she’d be a commuter there as well. If I could financially swing it, I’d send her to Liberty University…that’d be my first choice, or possibly Samford University in Alabama as a close second choice. Regardless, I just can’t swing $50,000 a year in tuition and room & board.
I did the same in 1975. I worked full time and went to school full time during my junior and senior years at LBC. As a matter of fact for me to graduate on time with 4 yr degree I had to attend both summer sessions between my jr and sr years. To be full time during summer sessions you had to take 6 hrs per session. Summer time was also our busy time at work, my days started at 4 pm and normally I got off at midnight. Well except during summer time. I would not get off work until 4 am some days, classes started at 8 am and was done at 1 or 2 pm. I remember one day I did not finish work until 7 am. I would get home after classes and have a chance to sleep for a couple of hours. Oh to be young again. When I graduated in 1975, I also had no debt.