Some realities:
1) In the face of published statistics of great enrollment, I journeyed to the campus to do a photographic recording of pictures of all classrooms at the most popular class hour–11:00 Tuesday. That strip of film I will gladly share with you. It shows about 80% of all those new and old classrooms—EMPTY.

2) You fail to cite the academic background of the new faculty—most from places such as Liberty University, etc. It reflects an unbalanced faculty in the face of one which could not be characterized as you imply to be “liberal.”

3) Also in previous years any student metriculating without additional fees had to be recommended by his local SBC church. I was not allowed any access to student files to determine how many were non-SBC.

4) In private conversations around the Library and across campus I often asked, “And what church are you from.” The answer given by a vast majority indicated students from Liberty U / Bob Jones / Pat Robertson’s University / etc. My personal observation was Patterson drew students from all the conservative schools with which he had a connection.

5) The alumni magazines I continued to receive were about 60% a publication lauding Dr. Patterson over the courses being taught and books being written by faculty.

I viewed it as “President worship” which had never been a part of the alumni magazine before.

It’s a great and important book. You should definitely read it.

Thanks for putting up this multi-part post. This fills many gaps in my knowledge of the history of Southeastern.

I didn’t know that Dr. Bush wrote the book “Baptists and the Bible”. In fact, I had never even heard of that book. I’m going to go to Amazon (or maybe my local Lifeway store?) and see if I can get a copy of it.

Thanks,

Roger Simpson Oklahoma City