Popular Freeper Colleges

[pstokely]

Bob Jones
Liberty
(ever seen the rules like there http://www.liberty.edu/StudentAffairs/index.cfm?PID=1417)
Texas A&M

[jdj]

1. Brigham Young?

[flygal]

32. And Ricks in Idaho

[LDS Jock]

37. Ricks is now BYU-Idaho n/t

[qnr]

2. I would imagine that that Oral (sp?) Roberts place would be

in there. Are they accredited?

[Nevernose]

4. I don't believe they are

But, then again, neither is Bob Jones University.

[qnr]

23. Thank you n/t

[LDS Jock]

39. Accreditation Information

Bob Jones is not currently, but looking at it, sort of.

http://www.bju.edu/aboutbju/special_articles/credit

Oral Roberts University set up its on accreditation organization called International Christian Accrediting Association. The website provided on the www.oru.edu is a non-working link. Google turned up no more information about it. Doesn't seem like much of an accreditation. Here is the link about it.

http://portal.oru.edu/pls/portal30/oruefmgr.oruef_main.accinfo

I had no idea these schools, and probably a number of others I've heard of, aren't even accredited.

[Coyote_Bandit]

44. ORU is Accredited

ORU is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Accrediting Association. The school is well recognized for its undergraduate and pre-professional programs. I believe the theology department is accredited somehow through the Methodist church.

While the school has a religious foundation it is primarily an academic institution rather than a seminary or Bible School. I believe that during their four years of undergraduate work students are required to complete six hours of Bible survey classes (Old and New Testament) and three hours of church history.

And contrary to common knowledge and expectations Oral Roberts is - or at least used to be - a DEMOCRAT!

I live in Tulsa and know several alumni - including some who are quite liberal. One swears to me that there used to be an active Young Democrats group on campus. Another swears that it was Oral himself who personally prohibited students from wearing black armbands on campus to protest the tenth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

The International Christian Accrediting Association is an accrediting organization for Christian schools (K through 12 - not college). Not sure of the exact relationhip but it is somehow affiliated with the ORU school of education. This weekend here in Tulsa they have hosted schools from all over for various competitions both atheletic and academic in nature. I live just a few miles away from the campus and have had the misfortune of dealing with the traffic congestion the past few days.

On edit: I'm not suggesting that ORU does not have more than its share of freeper crazy fundies. They definitely do.

Again, on edit: Accreditation information can be found here: http://www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org/

[Coyote_Bandit]

21. Yes

they are accredited - and well over half their graduates go on to graduate and professional schools. Many of their undergrad programs are well respected academically.

It is the rest of the stuff at that school that is just nutso. O course there is a dress code and required chapel and chuch attendance. Aside from the blatant religious aspect there are also physical requirements to graduate. For example, alumni must pass a swimming proficiency test. And every sememster a student is enrolled they must pass a phys ed class that includes a 3 mile run in a certain time. Oh, yeah, and there is that pesky body composition test - if a students body fat is over a certain level then weight loss is mandated or the student is subject to expulsion from school.

I live in Tulsa. I've had many opportunities to see some of these students struggle to stay in school for reasons not related to academics or finances. Not sure if this is still true but I know there used to be a Young Democrats student organization at ORU.

[qnr]

24. Thank you. n/t

[MrScorpio]

3. Regent University

Is it really real?

[Nevernose]

7. Surprisingly, yes

At least in certain states. They go through quite an accrediation process, at least for thir graduate programs.

I was shocked too, when I found out that their master's degree program weren't a stinking pile of shit, at least not in all areas.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

11. Yep

There was a campus in Alexandria VA, near my former place of employment. My neopagan ass got the willies just walking by.

Some others:

Christendom College
Patrick Henry College
Washington & Lee University
Virginia Military Institute
Hillsdale College

[Fenris]

5. University of Chicago's history department.

[finecraft]

18. No, that would be the Neocon Factory

Only the more nefarious freepers need apply

[mitchum]

33. Absolutely

[cubsfan forever]

6. LSU?

Professor 2

[Swamp Rat]

40. YES!

Some folks at LSU are hardcore KKK, neo-Nazis (secret RW societies). Bush spoke at this year's convocation and David Duke is very popular there as well.

[rwenos]

8. And . . .

Oral Roberts, Texas Christian, Alabama, BYU, Biola, Southern Methodist, Cal State Fullerton, West Point, Rice, The Citadel, South Carolina, Washington & Lee, and (my favorite, actually exists) Western Baptist Bible College.

I'm sure there are more.

[rwenos]

10. No, Not West Point

None of those Freepers have the cojones actually to join up in the Armed Services.

[jdj]

12. The Citadel.

Don't remind me.

I used to live in Powdersville, SC where Shannon Faulkner is from. She is teaching school now, doing fine.

[Stew225]

17. Now I know why I left The Citadel! eom

[Ron Green]

9. Abilene Christian College...

although I think they now call it ACU (seems most podunk degree mills have sought and attained the "University" appellation.)

[Ilsa]

13. Don't forget Baylor U.

TAMU is becoming more liberal, but it's taking time.

[DrZeeLit]

14. Peppardine, Malibu.

It's a beautiful campus, but... tight as a drum, religious.
I remember when they wouldn't allow gum on campus.
Or rock 'n roll.
Don't know how far they go now.

[rwenos]

15. Pepperdine's Law School Dean

is . . . . KENNETH "COTTON MATHER" STARR.

B - I - G Richard Scaife money endowed Starr's Deanship.

Could it be more obviously a payoff for the Clinton prosecution?

[Lefty48197]

16. Hillsdale College in SW Michigan.

It's a fundamentalist Chamber of Commerce University.

[Tweed]

19. Wheaton College in Illinois

They just started letting the kids have dances last year.

[American Tragedy]

20. Vanderbilt

Or so I've heard.

[Huckebein the Raven]

27. Yes, it's freeper-ish but I would argue

that it's more that the people there live in a bubble. The social scene on campus focused around the Greek system especially the sororities. Mouth-breathers a plenty (or as I like to call them: the Borg from Star Trek) there.

I should know because I went there for 2yrs then left to go to school elsewhere.

[amandabeech]

22. Here are a few from the Grand Rapids, MI, area.

Reformed Bible College
Cornerstone University (I think this is the former Grand Rapids Bible College)
Calvin College
Hope College (perhaps)

[SmileyBoy]

25. Virginia Military Institute

[SmileyBoy]

26. Here's the ultimate Freeper college:

Pensacola Christian College

Here's a website from disgruntled alumni which tells the awful truth of this horrid place:

http://www.pensacolachristiancollege.com

[ClevelandSportsCurse]

28. Grove City, PA

[jillg]

29. freeper colleges

University of Michigan, LSA. Not too popular, probably, but I am a former democrat, now one of the dreaded and reviled freepers, who graduated University of Michigan with a degree in sociology. I don't agree with everything on the Freeper board; there are nuts on both sides. :)

[norml]

30. U.VA. University of Virginia,and Duke

Lots of bad freeper stuff comes out of both of them.

[mark414]

34. not all of duke...

my roommate went to duke...most liberal motherfucker you'll ever meet

[norml]

42. OK,maybe not Duke. But the money,and families behind Duke are.

Lots of tobacco,and coal money there.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

31. George Fox College in Newberg, Oregon and Bethel College in St. Paul

George Fox is an odd one, a Quaker school for fundamentalist Quakers. When Oregon had its first anti-gay initiative, Measure 9, Newberg was full of "Yes on 9" signs. "What kind of crazy Quakers are these?" I kept asking myself. When the state association of private college faculty met for its annual retreat, the representatives from George Fox were always tight-lipped and disapproving when the rest of us broke out the wine and popped a video into the machine after dinner.

Bethel College requires (or at least used to require) its prospective faculty to fill out a form stating which of the listed fundamentalist beliefs they accept.

[donheld]

35. Freeper Colleges? check out these

http://www.gbs.edu/index.shtml - gods bible college

http://www.hsbc.edu/ Hobe sound bible college

[Goathead]

36. Regent University

Founded by Pat Robertson.

[Chomskyite]

38. These are pretty obvious, I'd say

Baylor
University of Mississippi
LSU (I know this one from experience)
University of Alabama
University of Georgia
University of Florida

[Swamp Rat]

41. Crossroads Bible College

Look where the faculty were trained:

http://www.crossroads.edu/pages/cp_personnel.html

[Blue Gardener]

43. Northwestern in Orange City, Iowa

Only fundies need apply.