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Mercer's Baptist affiliation or lack thereof can be confusing. Mercer was affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention (and the Southern Baptist Convention; the GBC is part of the SBC) until 2006. Mercer is now independent; formal ties with the GBC no longer exist. Mercer however, remains affiliated with a large number of individual Baptist churches in Georgia who support the university's Baptist Scholars Fund that provides scholarships for Baptist students. In addition, Mercer's McAfee School of Theology is affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The CBF provides financial support for operating costs, scholarships, etc. Also, the American Baptist Historical Society and the Baptist History and Heritage Society have announced plans, in 2006 and 2007 respectively, to relocate to the Atlanta campus.
Bottomline: Mercer is independent, but is not "unaffiliated" with Baptists. Mercer is affiliated at various levels with various groups. In order to prevent confusion, it is probably best to say that Mercer as a whole is "independent" without mentioning affiliations unless reference is also made to which part of of the university is being discussed.
Future: Mercer's president, William D. Underwood, has announced a desire to make Mercer the first "national" Baptist university much like Notre Dame University and Brigham Young University are for their religious groups. "National" refers to Mercer as a large Baptist university without ties to a " state" Baptist convention. Mercer's goal contrasts with other historically Baptist universities such as Wake Forest University, Furman University, and the University of Richmond that became secular after severing ties with their state conventions, and with Baylor University and Samford University that remain affiliated with the Baptist conventions in their states.
The candle lighting is at the end of freshman orientation. It has become a Mercer tradition where all incoming freshman make a circle on the Quad and light the candles, signifing the start of their journey at Mercer.
Not done in my day, 1968. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.82.125.29 ( talk) 01:12, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
~No longer done - at least not this year, although the Freshmen do go up and sign the tower of the administration building.
I removed the Comparable Schools section, as it is uncommon (and inappropriate) to list such subjective comparisons in an objective article on Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view Krazos 23:55, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm surprised that this article doesn't have many pictures. Mercer's campus is consistently ranked one of the most beautiful in America. I've been there myself; it's an accurate description. Does anybody out there go to mercer and have a camera? I would take some myself, but I don't have a decent camera. -- BWD ( talk) 18:14, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Why was the link to the SGA website removed? The site is the offical site for SGA and useful to people looking for information about Mercer.
The engineering section states that Robins AFB maintains an educational partnership providing on-base internships (etc) for aerospace engineering students. It provides internship for more than just the aerospace engineering students, perhaps remove aerospace from the sentence? 137.244.215.51 ( talk) 18:40, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
The tone of this article is that of a booster's pamphlet. It lacks detachment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oppugn ( talk • contribs) 10:31, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
The tone of the article is an embarrassment to Wikipedia and should be flagged. Reads like an admissions brochure. 179.60.219.47 ( talk) 21:15, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
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Mercer was the first private University in the "Deep South" to voluntarily desegregate. I do not believe that there is any scholarly debate on this point. Two examples (specific to GA): The University of Georgia desegregated beforehand; it was by court mandate. Emory University voluntarily desegrated; it occurred after Mercer. This seems an important note for Wikipedia to make, not only about Mercer but about the history of desegregation in the South. However, every time I have made this suggestion--backed by multiple scholarly footnotes--someone has removed the claim. Why? Do you think it is not true? Or, if true, do you oppose it being included? Please share your thoughts. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:A409:AC00:A8F8:B519:C18B:4F50 ( talk) 17:44, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
If interested, here are few more: http://crdl.usg.edu/export/html/ugabma/wsbn/crdl_ugabma_wsbn_wsbn50156.html, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/desegregation-higher-education, https://www.nytimes.com/1963/04/19/archives/georgia-college-to-desegregate-mercer-to-admit-ghanaian-converted.html, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.198.146.234 ( talk) 22:03, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
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Mercer's Baptist affiliation or lack thereof can be confusing. Mercer was affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention (and the Southern Baptist Convention; the GBC is part of the SBC) until 2006. Mercer is now independent; formal ties with the GBC no longer exist. Mercer however, remains affiliated with a large number of individual Baptist churches in Georgia who support the university's Baptist Scholars Fund that provides scholarships for Baptist students. In addition, Mercer's McAfee School of Theology is affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. The CBF provides financial support for operating costs, scholarships, etc. Also, the American Baptist Historical Society and the Baptist History and Heritage Society have announced plans, in 2006 and 2007 respectively, to relocate to the Atlanta campus.
Bottomline: Mercer is independent, but is not "unaffiliated" with Baptists. Mercer is affiliated at various levels with various groups. In order to prevent confusion, it is probably best to say that Mercer as a whole is "independent" without mentioning affiliations unless reference is also made to which part of of the university is being discussed.
Future: Mercer's president, William D. Underwood, has announced a desire to make Mercer the first "national" Baptist university much like Notre Dame University and Brigham Young University are for their religious groups. "National" refers to Mercer as a large Baptist university without ties to a " state" Baptist convention. Mercer's goal contrasts with other historically Baptist universities such as Wake Forest University, Furman University, and the University of Richmond that became secular after severing ties with their state conventions, and with Baylor University and Samford University that remain affiliated with the Baptist conventions in their states.
The candle lighting is at the end of freshman orientation. It has become a Mercer tradition where all incoming freshman make a circle on the Quad and light the candles, signifing the start of their journey at Mercer.
Not done in my day, 1968. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.82.125.29 ( talk) 01:12, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
~No longer done - at least not this year, although the Freshmen do go up and sign the tower of the administration building.
I removed the Comparable Schools section, as it is uncommon (and inappropriate) to list such subjective comparisons in an objective article on Wikipedia. Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view Krazos 23:55, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm surprised that this article doesn't have many pictures. Mercer's campus is consistently ranked one of the most beautiful in America. I've been there myself; it's an accurate description. Does anybody out there go to mercer and have a camera? I would take some myself, but I don't have a decent camera. -- BWD ( talk) 18:14, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Why was the link to the SGA website removed? The site is the offical site for SGA and useful to people looking for information about Mercer.
The engineering section states that Robins AFB maintains an educational partnership providing on-base internships (etc) for aerospace engineering students. It provides internship for more than just the aerospace engineering students, perhaps remove aerospace from the sentence? 137.244.215.51 ( talk) 18:40, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
The tone of this article is that of a booster's pamphlet. It lacks detachment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oppugn ( talk • contribs) 10:31, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
The tone of the article is an embarrassment to Wikipedia and should be flagged. Reads like an admissions brochure. 179.60.219.47 ( talk) 21:15, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
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Mercer was the first private University in the "Deep South" to voluntarily desegregate. I do not believe that there is any scholarly debate on this point. Two examples (specific to GA): The University of Georgia desegregated beforehand; it was by court mandate. Emory University voluntarily desegrated; it occurred after Mercer. This seems an important note for Wikipedia to make, not only about Mercer but about the history of desegregation in the South. However, every time I have made this suggestion--backed by multiple scholarly footnotes--someone has removed the claim. Why? Do you think it is not true? Or, if true, do you oppose it being included? Please share your thoughts. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:A409:AC00:A8F8:B519:C18B:4F50 ( talk) 17:44, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
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