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Is faith-based housing the next big thing for public colleges? Troy University thinks so
Troy University will open this fall an $11.8 million student housing complex designed specifically for students seeking a faith-based collegiate experience. <snip>
The new facility gives preference to students who maintain an active spiritual lifestyle and are actively engaged in a campus faith-based organization.
Residents are required to engage at least semi-annually in a community-service or service-learning project that is tied to a church, such as food or clothing drive.
They must also refrain from using illegal drugs or alcohol while in the facility -- a rule that applies to all Troy dormitories -- and maintain a minimum 2.5 grade point average.
Schmidt said university officials hope the facility will attract students who would not otherwise consider a public university instead of a private faith-based school.
Schmidt said students of non-Christian faiths will not be excluded "if there was space available" and that university officials have discussed the prospect of catering more to non-Christians.
haha! I can't wait until the first bible thumper gets kicked out for not "maintaining an active spiritual lifestyle". Will be interesting to see that play out. How will you enforce it? Informants? People in the dorm tell on others? How about some kind of trial by your peers?
I can also see issues where individuals parents put them in that dorm but the actual students aren't to thrilled about living there.
Alcohol and drug use is regularly regulated on college campuses already.
I don't think it is really enforced though.
People are aware, I hope, that there are dormitories in public schools that cater to a number of niche student populations. One example would be gay students.
Funny how there is so much hatred of the Christians that a publically-funded school thinks Christian students need their own dormitory - you know, so the poor kids can feel safe amongst their own kind and not have to mix with those others.
Naturally there are objections to this project.
Funny how there is so much hatred of the Christians that a publically-funded school thinks Christian students need their own dormitory - you know, so the poor kids can feel safe amongst their own kind and not have to mix with those others.
Naturally there are objections to this project.
I think as long as the dorms don't offer amenities that the non faith-based dorms do it's no big deal.
Though I can't see many college students voluntarily wanting to live in a dorm that bans illegal drugs and alcohol.
All college dorms ban illegal drugs and alcohol.
Well they probably all ban illegal drugs, but they certainly don't all ban alcohol. It was allowed in my dorm if you were 21 or over.
I do not agree with this public schools including colleges should be exclusively secular.
Really? Every college I visited only allowed Alcohol in dorms if everyone on the floor was 21 or over. Although, I guess I visited a bunch of private schools, so its probably different elsewhere. Either way, its not like alcohol was actually not present though.
It should be inclusive, not exclusively secular. I, for one, value a university system which promotes its religious and cultural diversity.
It's pretty common to remove certain allowances in specific buildings. For instance, dorm halls would prohibit alcoholic beverages, meanwhile the student apartments would not. Each could likewise have certain academic requirements (mostly progress in one's academic career and/or age).
The new facility gives preference to students who maintain an active spiritual lifestyle and are actively engaged in a campus faith-based organization.
Residents are required to engage at least semi-annually in a community-service or service-learning project that is tied to a church, such as food or clothing drive.
They must also refrain from using illegal drugs or alcohol while in the facility -- a rule that applies to all Troy dormitories -- and maintain a minimum 2.5 grade point average.
Schmidt said university officials hope the facility will attract students who would not otherwise consider a public university instead of a private faith-based school.
haha! I can't wait until the first bible thumper gets kicked out for not "maintaining an active spiritual lifestyle". Will be interesting to see that play out. How will you enforce it? Informants? People in the dorm tell on others? How about some kind of trial by your peers?
I can also see issues where individuals parents put them in that dorm but the actual students aren't to thrilled about living there.
They have WWJD over the toilets. Most of them need at least 12 minutes before deciding that Jesus would poop, but he'd do it praising god like so many others of different faiths, and he wouldn't look at his junk for fear that he'd get aroused and have to gouge out an eye, or two.from the OP the standard seems to be based on behavior, with particular focus on partying and participation in social programs run through a faith based organization
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