Pensacola Christian College

The college would have a better reputation if the student life department was brought under control by the administration. Student Life has grown more powerful in that they are normally left to run on their own. Student Life becomes a thorn in the side of most students due to their unreasonable and irrational behavior towards the student body. I should know; I work side by side with Student Life. And they are very hypocritical. Otherwise, it would be a very nice institution.

4th Year Male -- Class 2006

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They are very very very conservative and extremely strict.
http://www.pensacolachristiancollege.com/
This link is to the Student Voice, which has been out of the loop really for several years. But it does have a copy of the student rulebook (which only includes a percentage of the actual rules that are enforced, since many of the rules are not written down anywhere).

There's no denim at all, not even jackets. Ladies have to wear hose every weekday until noon and to dinner and Sundays all day.

Men and women students cannot touch at all, not even to shake hands.
Ranging from rules against having an electric fan in your dorm room, to how tight your shirt can be, to what side of the street you can walk down, there are rules against everything.

Although, they changed the no-cellphones rule. You are only allowed to have a cellphone in your room or in your car; nowhere else.

And they employ spies to make sure that you follow their rules 24/7. I'm serious; they hire people who do nothing all day except stand around and watch the students looking for misdemeanors. They hire people who do nothing all day but drive around town and check on students who are off campus to make sure that they aren't overstaying their passes. Yeah, you have to have a pass to leave campus at any time.

If you get too many demerits, they will appoint someone to follow you to all your classes and to every meal and to church. This is called being "shadowed", and their job is to make sure that you don't speak to certain people or speak of certain things that could be detrimental to the college.

I've known them to wait until all the students are out of their dorm rooms, and make routine checks looking through students' belongings to see if they are hiding rock music or jeans.

If you are at all concerned about a college being too restrictive and conservative for you, then PCC is not for you. They are strict to the point of tyranny. Almost all of the people in authority don't care about the students; all they care about is rules and their image. Many of their policies are un-Biblical (encouraging students to rat out other students creating an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion) and they are sadly devoid of Christian charity, mercy, and love.

I knew a guy that turned himself in for breaking a rule, and he asked for help with his problem, but they didn't help him or counsel him. They just expelled him.

I know that it sounds ridiculous, but it is the truth.
I would caution you to be very very careful about considering going to PCC. Some people like it; most normal people don't. I only went there b/c it is so cheap and b/c they have an excellent music program.

I will say this for them. They do give you a good, and a thorough education. They have excellent teachers who expect a lot from their students. But in the end, most of the graduates look and talk and act like little cookie-cutter clones of what they college considers to be "the perfect Christian", and on the inside most of them are dead to the Spirit. All they care about is image. If you look good, then it doesn't matter what is on the inside.

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000