Thanks for your news on this topic. I just learned from MUM Admissions that they no longer require students to meditate in a group (they still need to meditate though), which is suprising and strange. It goes against the Super Radiance policy.
To extend my point on MUMs accreditation, I would like to refer to some information I came across on the web regarding how MIU in its infancy, may have gained their accreditaton in the first place (but there is not a lot of information on that): http://trancenet.net/law/denarot.shtml --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "dhamiltony2k5" <dhamiltony...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "svenssonjack" <svenssonjack@> wrote: > > > > Can anyone tell me how many students - full-time and part-time - are > > currently enrolled at MUM ? > > > > Is an interesting question. > > Hard to know. Sometimes some pundits are included along with the other > programs and then the gradations of programs that can count. The more recent > real challenge has been the attrition rates of the academic student body. > > Over the 4th of July weekend at picnics and parties I spoke with several MUM > staff folks and they were saying the attrition is very high now, running at > 60-70 percent of new students. The problem evidently is that the program is > way too doctrinal. Way too much doctrinal SCI unified field based stuff > and not enough substantial schooling. > > New students may come for the academic programs but leave because the > doctrinal academic teaching of TM are way too constricting. Unlike in the > days of MIU, MUM students today don't come because they are meditators > necessarily at all. It is a different student profile from years ago. > > The sustainable living program has attracted a lot of attention and > prospective students from outside the TMmovement. They come and find that it > is not just that the student body are meditators, but also that there is a > whole doctrine of movement dogma that comes over it all. Repulsed at the > amount of time spent on doctrine and how rigid the thinking and evaluation > is, many leave within the first year. > > Evidently was some lot of push back from students this last year in a way > that normally is suppressed. Particularly in the sustainable living program. > small change thus far evidently and no decisions much made. > > The new communications department because of David Lynch is also attacting > new students from the outside to MUM too. Same problem with doctrinarism > and the amount of time not spent on the academic program they came for. > > > Financially, evidently the Ethiopian government is becoming shy to letting > students come abroad because of the loss of foreign exchange for them. The > campus is evidently stressed now for what had been a very lucrative foreign > student market. The African student had met the same doctrinal problem too > as the sustainable living and David Lynch students. Came initially for the > academic possibility and found something way different from just meditating. > Way more doctrinal than sold. > > Generally the US visa program for students has become more difficult too > which administratively presses the flow of that student market now. > > They (the mix of old conservative administration (Bevan's) and some pragmatic > progressives who have not been found out yet) are reeling & working hard to > deal with these things all at once. The old-line is still loath to going > back towards a university being just a place of good academic programs where > the student body and faculty are also meditators. Post-Maharishi, they are > caught now in their own web being way doctrinal. > > That's what i hear on the street in FF. > > JGD, > -D in FF > > > > > > According to the university itself, the total number is 1230, of which > > about half are full-time. > > > > As a MIU alumn, the number of students had gone down dramatically when I > > graduated, mid-90s, to about 500 or so. If the official figure is correct, > > they have experienced an upsurge in recent years. > > > > It is important to bear in mind that, in my time there, the part-time > > programs (which they now call field internship) were the equivalent of > > slavery and exploitation, considering the conditions students had to submit > > to. MUMs website now tells me they have improved those conditions, it > > seems. > > > > MUM Admissions also mention there are 70 students on their Beijing campus. > > I was not aware they have a campus in China ? > > > > As for diversity, close to 90% of the undergraduates who enrolled last fall > > are Americans, so the international flavour has diminished. > > > > USA Undergraduates Fall 2008 : > > Applied 267 > > Admitted 118 > > Enrolled 90 > > > > Rather low. > > > > Then there were 170 new grad students. > > > > Finally, the University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and > > is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Now, > > I know they were with North Central already in my time, but I was told they > > lost their accreditation in 1994 or 1995. Can anyone enlighten me ? > > >
