College enrollment is supposed to be circling the drain. Apparently nobody told Belhaven. The Mississippi institution, founded in 1883, is seeing record enrollment while plenty of universities are scrambling to fill seats.
Belhaven President Roger Parrott joins Grant Callen on The Empower Podcast to talk about how the school grew while sticking to its Christian mission, when a college degree is worth the debt, and what happens when ChatGPT can crank out your term paper before you’ve finished your coffee.
Parrott also explains why he ditched long-range strategic planning. After three decades on the job, he’d rather talk about sailboats than sit around a conference table pretending to know what God has in mind for 2035. Somewhere, a consultant just lost a billable hour.
And yes, Belhaven football games are free. There’s your one college expense you can quit complaining about.
This post is sponsored by Empower Mississippi.
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Fantastic! Although the neighborhood has a lot of libtards, Belhaven is so beautiful and the best of Jackson. The 1% commission has done a great job repaving lots of streets, there are NEW houses being built, and lots being restored. Riverside Dr. is the most beautiful stretch in the city. Plus Manship St. alone has more culinary talent than most any other town! Great to see this.
And thank Capitol PD for making it so much safer!
Belhaven is a good little college that is nice and offers a good education. The neighborhood around it is beautiful and now that Cap PD exists it’s safe to live there and attend. Hope they continue to grow.
Belhaven has a real board. Wish MC would take a lesson.
Belhaven has really done well with its online programs.
I wish JPS would have sold Newell Field to them. Belhaven offered to buy it, fix it up and allow JPS to use it on Friday nights and they declined. Instead, they built a nice little 2000 seat stadium on their campus (all chairbacks, beautiful press box and big video board) and Newell Field is a blight on Riverside Drive.
What could have been.
"good little college" That sounds a little condescending. Its a great college. Glad it continues to see growth.
@12:37 p.m., you just keep yourself from turning this into something political, could you? Crawl back into your hole and stay there.
Refreshing that many have awakened to the pervasive and relentless anti-Christian and anti-white racism taught in the majority of U.S. colleges and universities. Many are also very well aware that the professors who instill such beliefs in impressionable young students either have really big noses, extremely kinky hair or burning sexual desires for members of the same sex.
The capital police need to be moved to the zoo area. The zoo area needs to be cleaned up Why do you have to be a rich white liberal to have a good police department. Poor blacks deserve better
1:55 don’t you understand that it’s ALL political? Everything is downstream of your local politics. Had the CCID not been created and Cap PD expanded, Belhaven U would have certainly suffered as people continued to get robbed and carjacked in the neighborhood. Parents don’t want to send their kids to a school in a dangerous, run down area. The Belhaven revival has been great and 100% of it has been due to POLITICAL decisions.
2:01 - Eww
2:05 I wholeheartedly agree!
All these little Jackson-area post-secondary bus stops are nothing but grooming grounds and indoctrination centers that recruit the ultra liberal professors.
It will be refreshing when discussions of a topic don’t immediately turn to politics. It will happen. All it takes is a vision.
The online programs are terrible! I tried teaching there in the graduate school. I quickly realized most of their students couldn’t read or write at a basic 8th grade level and some of them were getting a second graduate degree. When I brought the issue to the attention of the dean, I was told to pass them. When I told them I couldn’t because it devalues the education for all, they suggested I let the program chair step in and pass them. After that happened, I stopped teaching there. It was shocking to me that a school that prides itself on Christian values had, in my experience, very few. I don’t know about the on campus programs. I can only speak to the graduate online and accelerated program. It’s sad. So, if you meet a belhaven grad who can’t write, that’s why.
2:05 seems to have selective memory.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2024/03/29/residents-oppose-expansion-of-capitol-police-jurisdiction-in-jackson-ms/73128893007/
Stokes hosted the town hall, along with Earl Banks, who represents parts of Ward 3 in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Jackson's Chief of Police Joseph Wade.
Banks told the crowd he did not vote for HB 1020, as did all of the Hinds County, Jackson and Democratic lawmakers in the Mississippi House. But those votes didn't matter as Republicans, who wrote and support the bill, have a super-majority.
One resident in attendance who garnered much support after Stokes invited him to speak was Tariq Abdul-Tawwab, director of the health center with the People's Advocacy Institute. The institute "is a non-profit community resource, training and capacity-building incubator for transformation justice in the South," according to its website. It is lead by Rukia Lumumba, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba's older sister.
In an impassioned speech, Abdul-Tawwab, who lives in Ward 1, compared the Capitol Police and the Capitol Complex Improvement District to Jim Crow-era laws, saying it is only helping to kill and arrest young Black men. He also compared the Capitol Complex Improvement District to other attempts from the state to "takeover" Jackson, such as Senate Bill 2628, which would put the City of Jackson's water and sewer infrastructure into the hands of the state after Henifin steps down. Senators in the Mississippi Senate recently approved SB 2628 in early March.
9:19pm is tellin the truth folks. Former professor here who retired for this very reason. Over one-third of "college" enrollment is dual-credit classes for kids STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL taking those classes online....which yes, are complete bullshit. You are threatened with your job if you in any way try to hold a student accountable for their lack of effort. They are to be passed. Period. It's because the amount of Federal Financial Aid that funds these classes is tied to the billions that keep Mississippi's "highe ed" system afloat. Total scam of the taxpayers and crippling young people into thinking they've achieved something they have not. It's all about appearances, and reported numbers....which by the way - The "Mississippi Miracle" is a laughable lie. Ask anyone who works in education. There is zero discipline, and the admin will report whatever they are terrorized into reporting to keep those numbers up.
Got news for you, more and more students across the nation can’t read at grade level. With technology, do people really need to understand what they are reading? Ai will let them know what it means.
@1:45 it is in fact a little college, and it is great. But it is small
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