JUSTIN ROBERTS - BROADCASTING
Diversity Attracted Homeschooler to Southeastern

With a mom who has an affinity for the New York arts scene and a dad from Ghana, Justin Roberts couldn’t help developing diverse interests. So it’s no wonder that diversity—in the majors that Southeastern offers—attracted Roberts to the school.

Diversity marked Roberts’ homeschool education. In addition to academics, he played music—strumming everything from rock to reggae on guitar. He also played baseball and hockey on community teams during his years of homeschooling that spanned from the sixth- through the 12th-grade.

Roberts says he chose Southeastern because it offered many majors and minors and had a close-knit community. Southeastern’s broad range of programs enabled him to explore a major and learn that—after exposure to it—he needed a different program of study. Roberts initially considered majoring in music at Southeastern, but the limited opportunities he expected as a professional guitarist and his lack of interest in formal musical composition, changed his mind. Although Roberts still plays guitar for Southeastern’s Worship Choir and small, student-led bands, he now plans to major in broadcasting and minor in psychology. After attending a graduate program in advertising, Roberts hopes to produce commercials while ministering to advertising colleagues who may get caught up in a culture of cutthroat behavior.

When Roberts was choosing a university, he also sought a place where students and faculty knew each other. Even back as a sophomore, he had formed about a dozen close friendships, he said. Citing the impersonal nature of the large university his older sister attends, Roberts has observed that she only has made about four close friends during her college years. Roberts, whose homeschool education consisted of daily devotions, also appreciates the sincerity with which Southeastern honors God. He says chapel services and students’ lives show that Southeastern is what it professes to be, a Christ-centered university.