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There is a small Christian College in my area and it has some similarities to this. Some differences are that there are no dorms, and students are encouraged to live with local families or in apartments.
They explain it here:
"This is why the College has no on-campus residence facilities, for such facilities tend to foster academic and youth subcultures segregated from the more balanced and mature local community.
New Saint Andrews rejects, on principle, college dormitory living. Dormitories dominate Christian and non-Christian student housing on virtually every college campus. But dorms, by their very nature, tend to breed immaturity, immorality, and irresponsibility. Despite claims to the contrary, no college can provide adequate supervision or accountability for dozens, sometimes hundreds of 18- to 21-year-olds living in the same space with other 20-somethings typically acting as the "residence advisors." This is consistent with the radically anti-Christian origin of modern college dormitories, dating from the early 20th century when the German Bauhaus movement swept Western architecture. Bauhaus architects quite deliberately applied their modernist-socialist vision to apartment complexes and college dormitories to create "living machines." In fact, Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus movement, invented the modern university dormitory at Bauhaus as a way of promoting communal living and reinforcing a revolutionary, socialist way of life. Sparing them the indignities of high ceilings and wide hallways and other trappings of the bourgeoisie, Gropius and the Bauhaus-inspired architects provided co-eds with low ceilings, narrow hallways, and the aesthetics of machinery. New Saint Andrews, by contrast, expects its students to live as faithful Christians in a way that recovers the beauty of genuine community."
Those of us that lived in crappy tiny dorm rooms can now blame it on Gropious and the Bauhaus!
The college cannot receive federal funding, so students have to save their money or get a job in the local community. If you don't have the money to pay, you won't be admitted.
"That means being faithful both in what we teach and in what we charge for tuition and fees. Our demanding program of studies gives students a rich Trinitarian worldview without chaining them to a devilish pile of debt when they graduate. A truly Christian education won't make students slaves to debt (Proverbs 22:7)."
College loans are devilish, tell that to the financial aid office!
In the code of conduct there is this:
"The College also warns students, for the protection of their souls and the peace of the College, to avoid false teaching and errant doctrine. The College expects students will neither embrace nor promote, formally or informally, historic or contemporary doctrinal errors, such as Arianism, Socinianism, Pelagianism, Skepticism, Feminism, Pantelism, the so-called Openness of God Theology, etc.,*1 among their fellow students. If students do come to embrace such errant doctrines personally, they promise by their signed pledge to inform the College administration immediately and honestly in a letter offering to withdraw from the College."
Feminism is a threat to YOUR SOUL!
And last but not least:
"Students should embrace and encourage the development of distinctively Christian music, art, literature, poetry, drama, and crafts. The College expects students to participate cautiously and critically in our predominantly pagan popular culture, and to avoid and to repudiate the culturally destructive (but often “socially acceptable”) glorification of sin found in contemporary films, music, video games, web sites, and so forth."
I also enjoy this part:
"The College expects students will cultivate holy and edifying social relationships with their fellow students and with the College faculty and staff, avoiding even the appearance of unruly behavior, inappropriate conduct, disrespect, rebellion, or sinful and unlawful activities commonly associated with ungodly college students (e.g., drunkenness, sexual sins, illegal drug use, etc.)."
How many of us are UNGODLY?
I remember reading in some of their stuff before that as a student, if you know of other students not following the code of conduct, or having issues in their faith, it is your duty to NARC on them and if you don't you're just as much at fault. I would never attend this school, as I actually want a degree that is worth something (most graduates end up working for the college or for the K-12 school they run as they are unqualified to do anything else).
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