I and many others so appreciate the work you are doing with this newsletter and advocacy group. My perspective as a 2007 grad is that Furman started going downhill when they started fixing things that weren’t broken. I never wanted or needed Furman to be anything but a good regional school that allowed traditional values alongside critical thinking. I then went to a nationally known grad school and that worked out just fine.
At our daughters’s orientation in August 2022, Furman proudly announced that they had an unprecedented number of applicants. I believe they said it was 7500, and that something like 6 or 8% of those were accepted. There is no doubt that orientation was focused on political indoctrination. For starters, every presentation given by a student began with their announcement of their pronouns. In addition, at the table hosted by the Center for Inclusive Communities, our then 12-year-old was forced to announce her pronouns via the myriad pronoun/neopronoun buttons on the table before she could obtain any of the merchandise being offered at the table. We regretted our decision that very day. And we have seen the situation worsen, with ideologically captured programs featured in the compulsory Cultural Life Program, such as the history of transgenderism being shown multiple times in one month. Needless to say, Furman was extremely successful in completely indoctrinating our daughter. And we don’t know what it will take to extricate her from that.
Despite the declining enrollment and objections to its ongoing student indoctrination, Furman continues on its same course- even as it is currently hiring for and expanding its Women’s and Gender Studies program and major while ignoring ROI or jobs for those graduates. Why does the Board and Faculty at Furman continue (as it has for too many decades) to insist they are the arbiters of all that is correct, as they continue driving a once well-respected University off a financial and cultural cliff?
Many universities and other types of businesses have cut programs that no longer serve their needs or their mission. Other universities have waited too late and have had to close. I hope Furman finds itself able to do what needs to be done to right it’s sinking ship.
I guess I speak from the olden days as a 1972 graduate. If I were looking at going to a college these days from an investiment point of view, I think there are far better investments that one could make.
I and many others so appreciate the work you are doing with this newsletter and advocacy group. My perspective as a 2007 grad is that Furman started going downhill when they started fixing things that weren’t broken. I never wanted or needed Furman to be anything but a good regional school that allowed traditional values alongside critical thinking. I then went to a nationally known grad school and that worked out just fine.
At our daughters’s orientation in August 2022, Furman proudly announced that they had an unprecedented number of applicants. I believe they said it was 7500, and that something like 6 or 8% of those were accepted. There is no doubt that orientation was focused on political indoctrination. For starters, every presentation given by a student began with their announcement of their pronouns. In addition, at the table hosted by the Center for Inclusive Communities, our then 12-year-old was forced to announce her pronouns via the myriad pronoun/neopronoun buttons on the table before she could obtain any of the merchandise being offered at the table. We regretted our decision that very day. And we have seen the situation worsen, with ideologically captured programs featured in the compulsory Cultural Life Program, such as the history of transgenderism being shown multiple times in one month. Needless to say, Furman was extremely successful in completely indoctrinating our daughter. And we don’t know what it will take to extricate her from that.
Despite the declining enrollment and objections to its ongoing student indoctrination, Furman continues on its same course- even as it is currently hiring for and expanding its Women’s and Gender Studies program and major while ignoring ROI or jobs for those graduates. Why does the Board and Faculty at Furman continue (as it has for too many decades) to insist they are the arbiters of all that is correct, as they continue driving a once well-respected University off a financial and cultural cliff?
Many universities and other types of businesses have cut programs that no longer serve their needs or their mission. Other universities have waited too late and have had to close. I hope Furman finds itself able to do what needs to be done to right it’s sinking ship.
I guess I speak from the olden days as a 1972 graduate. If I were looking at going to a college these days from an investiment point of view, I think there are far better investments that one could make.