We have been in the process of throwing away our future for some time. To a practical person, this does not seem to be the time to speed up that process but rather to reverse it. In the present increased competition for college students, it is necessary for a small, expensive, private school to have a specialness about it to attract students. Surely our Christian foundation would be our best selling point. We say that we have a special ability to help students learn to care and behave ethically.
State schools say they are trying to do the same thing.
People tend to believe us because they believe that we are Christian, and so are committed to love and caring and high ethics. We are living off of Christ's Name. This is the first year of a new president of the university. He will need much trust and support if he is to get PLU through the next few years. I think that the proposed revised Mission Statement should simply be pitched into PLU's collective waste basket.