<p>I thought people on this forum might enjoy this post (found it on the Harvey Mudd forum) as you're thinking about college choices.</p>
<p>A really wonderful, uplifting lecture from an obviously gifted scholar. What a breath of fresh air from too many self-absorbed intellectuals determined to replace rather than revere the Creator of their universe. Not sure that it suffices to recommend Harvey Mudd as a great place for serious Christian students, but it merits some consideration, if for no other reason than to connect with a man like Professor Su. Harvey Mudd is one of the Claremont Colleges, a group of institutions long held in high regard among the elites. An institution modeled after Oxford and a few other universities constituted by multiple, diverse, nearly free-standing colleges.</p>
<p>And regardless, well worth the read. Thanks for sharing.</p>
<p>My son and I were able to meet with Prof Su and another Christian professor when we were there last year. I think there are a number of Christian professors and employees on campus. As you say, it’s not enough to recommend Mudd but it was heartening and hard to turn down.</p>
<p>VERY cool! Those are really GREAT moments for young wannabees, just as Su’s “coffee” moment illuminates. Seems he was paying it forward with your student. </p>
<p>The very slim research exposes that ironically, there are many more Christians and conservatives in colleges like Harvey Mudd that are rooted in engineering and the hard sciences vs. the soft sciences like sociology, psychology, English, political science, history, communications, etc. Some would think it would be just the opposite. But many find that scientific analyses and observation lead toward intelligent design and thus an Intelligent Designer. A great many of these end up staying in the “closet” for fear of becoming targets among their egg-headed, self-impressed colleagues. Su also exposes the beauty in humility.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the hard types don’t sit around navel-gazing and sand-box engineering. They are more rooted in linking learning to reality. Bridge-builders cannot afford much “experimentation” as there are real and notable consequences to their muddling. Not that there is not among the mush-minded social engineers who are messing with young people’s minds and souls.</p>
<p>Now this might make for a most intriguing Ph.D. thesis for one sufficiently courageous to risk his academic future in search of the Truth. Not many committees would tolerate such “tolerance.” Nor approve the topic, let alone allow the candidate passage into their exclusive, mostly secular fraternity. And we wonder why most campuses are populated by 95% liberal, left-winged “progressive” professors.</p>
<p>One great lesson exposed by sbjdorlo … Believers are everywhere and on virtually every campus. They are often quietly camouflaged or carefully quiet. Sadly, the campus is most often a very unfriendly place for overtly Christian professors and students. Ironically the term “tolerance” has become severely bastardized and one-sided. </p>
<p>But don’t mistake a Christian professor or campus program as implying that a campus is Christian-tolerant. There are now over 5,000 institutions of higher education and the vast majority of professors at the vast majority of campuses are vastly “liberal” and progressive, and thus vastly unsympathetic to the calling of Christ. Their gods are sorely different too often. </p>
<p>And that’s the essential reason for this forum thread. Beyond those called to the ministry and in need of departments of Greek, Latin, and religion (that wasn’t merely the academic study of world religions), 50 years ago few ever worried about this stuff.</p>
<p>And that’s the essential reason for this forum thread.</p>
<p>Very true, WP. But we serve such a great God that He kindly shines His light into the darkness in so many ways. My son and some friends from Campus Crusade for Christ have spent an amazing week down in Florida just sharing the gospel and God has worked so amazingly. My son said it’s interesting and very different from kids at MIT. He said most people say they’ve never really heard the Gospel before and they begin to ponder its truths, whereas, the further up you go in academia, it seems, the more “heady” and man-centered people become. It seems to be all about us and not about Him.</p>