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According to the Dean of Enrollment Services, Mr. Ben Puckett,

a 1976 graduate, at the beginning of the college the student body

was predominately from the United States with only a few inter­

national students. Students from nine countries help to bring

diversity to the campus. We have students from India, New

Zealand and Switzerland for the first time.

Since the only funding foreign students can receive is from

the institution or through private sources, the college created a

scholarship for them. “The catastrophe of 9/11 has made it in­

creasingly harder to get international students unless they have

dual citizenship. Difficulty in meeting the financial costs for higher

education in the states and an increasing concern for national se­

curity are the prevailing reasons today for fewer international stu­

dents on our college campuses,” Mr. Puckett said.

Learning cultural differences from our interaction with peers

from other countries influences our beliefs and practices. We pray

that God will bring students from other cultures to open our eyes

and hearts to others. Jeremiah 17:10 states, “I the Lord search the

heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways,

and according to the fruit of his doings.” Despite cultural barri­

ers, God unites the world around His Word.

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