re: Higher Education at a Christian school.

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Take Belmont off the list. One of the first questions on their app is about gender identity. My oldest noped out .

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Let your kid pick their college or even not going to college.

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You’re either a very sheltered person or you have a Samford axe to grind. Or both.

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There’s no “whiteness is evil” as part of the curriculum, official or unofficial.

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Throughout the year a faculty reading group, which consisted of "fifteen faculty members across seven departments," convened to read and discuss "How to be an Antiracist, Teaching to Transgress and selected chapters from Performing Antiracist Pedagogy." The goal of the group "included learning from...scholars of historically oppressed or disadvantaged groups, and identifying conceptual resources and concrete practices that could be integrated into [the] classrooms."

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In the 2022 Diversity Action Plan, Samford states the intent to craft “a framework for learning and practice that intentionally infuses aspects of racial justice and promotes harmony for all of God’s diverse creations" within their curriculum. Along this line, the plan incorporates a goal to “incorporate elements of racial justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion content into the core curriculum at Samford.”

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The University presented a seminar to highlight the ways that the core curriculum engages with topics of race and diversity. Samford provost Michael Hardin stated "The courses of the curriculum present important works and ideas to help students address the enduring questions of justice, equity, law, freedom and their duties as citizens that bear centrally on the current demand for racial justice and equality.”

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DEI training will now be a hiring requirement, since the school will “update the training of all new and internal hires to include diversity/inclusion training.”

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The Howard College of Arts and Sciences released "A Pledge of Action and Support" standing against the "inequality and prejudice that frame so much of the daily experience of our African American brothers and sisters." Dean Tim Hall stated the leaders of the Howard College of Arts and Sciences "pledge to act and speak against the sinful curse of systemic racism."

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Carol Ann Vaughn Cross studies social history at the intersection of religion, technology and culture, sex and gender.

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Deconstructing missions' mythologies of white supremacy: This involves a critical examination of how mission work has been used to advance colonialist ideals and the belief in white cultural superiority. The critique identifies several problematic aspects:

White Savior Complex: The narrative that white missionaries are uniquely suited to "save" people in other nations, ignoring the agency and rich spiritual traditions of local communities.

Paternalism: The tendency for mission agencies to make decisions for their Black counterparts without input, hoarding power and knowledge within the white leadership structure.

Association with empire: How Christian mission efforts became intertwined with European and American colonial expansion and the resulting exploitation.

Confronting systemic racism: This analysis recognizes that African American missionaries faced significant institutional barriers rooted in white supremacy. They were often denied financial support and access to theological training by white-led denominations. When they were sent, it was sometimes under the misguided belief they were more resistant to tropical diseases, or so that colonizers could leverage their influence while still controlling their activities.

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It’s not mere admissions policies. They teach social justice as Biblical justice and perpetuate the entire systemic racism propaganda in policy, courses, and events. Samford is a cesspool of DEI and woke bullshite.

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The administration, board, and faculty, however, have more than a few woke types- the religious woke types

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With the political climate at these college campuses, is anyone else now strongly considering sending their children to a Christian university like liberty or something similar? I have a child in 8th grade that is more religious than I am, and the more I think about it, the more I want her to stay that way. With the way colleges are warping minds these days…………anyone else?

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