Facebook page gets 15,000 “thumbs-up”
Last week the Lee University Facebook page surpassed 15,000 likes: a milestone for the page.
That means that over 15,000 people (15,079, as of right now) have clicked the button on the page indicating that they are fans of, or are interested in, Lee University.
The amount is over triple the number of Lee’s undergraduate enrollment.
Bryan College, another private Christian university in the area, has an enrollment of about 1,400, and its Facebook page has around 4,000 likes.
Compared to a nearby public university, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has an enrollment of about 10,000 students, with more than 12,000 likes on its Facebook page.
But, according to director of IT Systems Nate Tucker, who manages the Facebook page, “there are a lot of current students who still haven’t “liked” Lee.'”
That’s something that the administration sees not as a discouragement, but as a challenge.
Vice president for enrollment Phil Cook posted on the Facebook page, “15,000 likes…nicely done! Here’s to 15,000 more.”