The Chicago Tribune informs us that enrollment in Christian Colleges is on the rise:
Evangelical Christian colleges are attracting record numbers of applications this year in a trend that bodes well for an educational niche that was struggling to survive just a generation ago.
Applications have jumped between 8 percent and 10 percent at the 238 colleges that belong to the North American Association of Christian Admissions Professionals," Religion News Service reports. "More applications mean more students on campuses next fall ... and that's good news since 25 percent of those schools are barely breaking even financially. ... Enrollment has increased 70 percent since 1990, from 135,000 to 230,000, at the 102 evangelical schools belonging to the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities.
Parents are evidently awakening to the fact that one of the best moves they can make for the spiritual, moral, intellectual and political health of their child is to enroll him or her in a school that offers an overtly Christian environment. Many students are themselves arriving at the same conclusion.
Secular universities have, in many cases, become joyless, sterile places where the only relief from the stifling bleakness of the materialistic, anomic, politically correct atmosphere is the weekend party binge. That's scarcely the sort of ambience one is eager to fork over $30,000 a year to have his child immersed in.
