Atlantic Union College Insists It Still Has Plans to Reopen
by AToday News Team
By Karen Nugent TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
LANCASTER — While a planned merger with a fellow Seventh-day Adventist college fell through, Atlantic Union College will not close, according to church and college officials.
Donald G. King, president of the South Lancaster-based Atlantic Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, said talks have recently concluded with the state Department of Higher Education for plans to reopen. The plan has not yet been approved by the state agency.
Mr. King said there are no plans to sell the campus. “Instead, we intend to continue to improve the campus even as we prepare to restructure and reopen at a later date,” he said in an email. Read more…
Where is the necessary support for the school to reopen? Wishful thinking is not sufficient.
As with most things that are dying, we don't properly know how to euthanize, and put it out of it's misery. Many a church and school has been found barely with a pulse, and we don't know when to say enough.
It is sad that AUC is no longer, but put a period on the sentence, and invest in the unreached who are waiting to see the Gospel lived out in their part of the world.
When something dies, it should be buried.
The faculty are gone. The students are gone. The alumni left long ago. The buildings have been crumbling for some time. The landscaping has been unattended to for years. Enough. Sell the property and use the proceeds for the evangelization of young adults at secular colleges and universities in New England and New York.
Speaking from this same thing happening here in the Kansas/Nebraska conference. I went to PVA all 4 years and sent all my boys there all 4 years. I have seen many put millions of dollers into this school. Now it has closed and is all bulldozed away and you can't hardly tell where it was by driving past. It is sad the support from people wanting to send students to SDA schools is not what it use to be.I feel this is a measuring system of something.. Maybe I'm wrong. It could be the lack of funds to send our sons and daughters away. Looking back also it caused me to leave home at a very early age. It was a great sacrafice for my parents in many ways.
Looking back the school should have closed before those spending millions trying to keep it open another year or maybe two. If the support is not there all should face the truth. It could be easier now than later.
Steve
I went away to boarding academy at 14, far too young, IMO. I would never send my child away at that age. When our older daughter had two more years of high school, we chose to move only where she could be at home until ready for college. It may be a sacrifice for parents, but why is it not asking a child to also sacrifice home and the benefits, also?