<p>I just looked the school up at wikipedia and there it says:</p>
<p>After about thirty years, the school's population had grown to about 4,500 students, representing every state in the Union and over sixty foreign countries. Currently attendance has taken a severe nose dive back to around 3,700. The general consensus of many faculty and studentsis that a large amount of the staff and students will not return for the next school year beginning Fall of 07.</p>
<p>What happened?</p>
<p>From the same wikipedia article (which means it may or may not be true):</p>
<p>"Rules and regulations
Rules at PCC are similar to those of other fundamentalist Christian colleges; the college maintains that "Attendance at PCC is a privilege not a right." The college has four levels of punishment; students can be socialed, campused, shadowed, or expelled. Students who have been socialed are not permitted to speak or interact with members of the opposite sex for a period ranging from one day to two weeks, depending on the severity of the offense. Campused students are not permitted to leave the campus grounds or speak with any other student being disciplined for two weeks. Individuals who are shadowed are assigned to a floor leader (a fellow student who is paid by PCC to enforce campus discipline) and must attend that person's classes, sleep in their room, and cannot speak with anyone else for the duration. The final form of punishment is expulsion from the college. Shadowing is often used in conjunction with expulsion, while a student is awaiting arrangements for him to leave campus. In certain circumstances, students have been made to leave campus within the 24 hour period after expulsion without arrangements being made.</p>
<p>Regulations govern all aspects of student life, including clothing, hairstyles, dorm room cleanliness, types of outside employment, borrowing, magazines, and music. PCC only permits students to listen to classical music or traditional Christian music. Mixed-gender interaction has the strictest rules. Stairwells and elevators are segregated by gender, members of the opposite sex are not permitted to touch in any way (even shaking hands is against the rules), mixed-gender meetings (including off-campus) are forbidden unless a PCC chaperon is present, and staring into the eyes of a member of the opposite sex, called by students "eye kissing", "optical intercourse", or "making eye babies", is discouraged by the administration.</p>
<p>Pensacola Christian College also decided its students are no longer permitted to work with Creation Science Evangelism because of the possible anti-taxation stance of one of its members Kent Hovind"</p>
<p>They can always go to BJU instead.</p>
<p>I know that the rules are..... "strict", but did something happen recently so that a lot of staff and students don't want to return next fall, or does that hold true for every fall?</p>
<p>Yeah, now I'm curious ... anyone know?</p>
<p>Wow, those rules sound ridiculous, but anyways, I have the same questions as everyone else. Sorry if this sounds incredibly odd. I have honestly never heard of something like this.</p>