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Oh! President Obama made the declaration. Not President Pettit!

Before the BJU students left campus for COVID, Steve Pettit posed with the Nursing Class. 

Yeah, that looks appropriate. Remember when Stephen Jones did the same in 2010? Little different, however. 

At 1:00pm on Monday, June 10, Steve Pettit posted a picture of his computer screen of a spreadsheet (aren’t Boomers cute?) on Instagram which he claimed proved that there were going to be a record number of attendees at the Summer Orientation this weekend. 

Now wait a second. WutBJU has been keeping track of the numbers of Summer Orientation attendees since BJU was making the numbers public. These are BJU’s numbers. I’ve recorded each one. 

Pettit’s numbers aren’t these numbers. Look.

Each of Pettit’s numbers (except last year) are different than the numbers they announced. The percentage difference is there in the last column.

How? 

WutBJU asked Pettit that question on Instagram. 

You won’t find that comment on Pettit’s Instagram. He blocked me. Touché.

But as I said on WutBJU’s Instagram, likely these numbers Pettit is showing us are those who registered for Summer Session #1 -- not those that are attending. Even Pettit can’t know the future. So Pettit has given us another set of numbers to understand how things are going over there at 29614.

And what do those numbers tell us? 

That the larger the registration numbers for the first session of Summer Orientation the greater the percentage of no-shows. 

There were always be a few no-shows. Kids get sick. Transportation bottoms out. But Pettit shouldn’t count his chickens before they check in.

If 16% of the kids don’t show this weekend, that will be around 34. And that means?

About the same that they were last year. 

While enrollment last year was continuing its decline, Steve Pettit claimed on November 3 that BJU’s aggressive recruitment was up.

The hard work on recruitment is paying off. Through the collective work of everyone, overall applications have increased this year by nearly 15 percent over last year. Incoming freshmen applications have increased by 20 percent. Our direct recruiting is up 19 percent and College up Close is 32 percent up. Thank you for all of your labor.

Remember Pettit’s “Year of Ups”? He was really bragging about how good enrollment looked for BJU for the 2017-18 school year.

Full-Time undergraduates are down in the 2017-18 school year compared to the 2016-17 school year. 

Down by one. 

Granted, it’s just one. But it’s not up. It’s down.

Pettit is covering with this “year of ups.” It’s the opposite.

In the November 3, 2017 Faculty Meeting, Steve Pettit claimed:

Since the shooting incident in Las Vegas, the interest of students in active shooter training has heightened. They want to know how to respond should an active shooting take place on campus.

Students? The students want to know how to respond?

Carol Keirstead freaked out the students with her poorly constructed subject line three days after this faculty meeting. Remember?

And the Campus Safety officers are fixated on the evil “out there” with an active shooter from the Collegian.