Posted by David Bernstein: Ashland U Rejects Objectivist Professor: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_07_15-2007_07_21.shtml#1184779522
Ashland University, a church-affiliated school [1]denied tenure to an Objectivist historian because he did not support the "Judeo-Christian tradition." A religious institution certainly has every right to enforce its ideology, but only in accordance with the contracts it signs with faculty. In this case, it appears that Ashland's academic regulations made it far from clear that the professor, John Lewis, was violating university policy. To make matters even more dicey, the university had accepted 100k in funding from an Objectivist organization to support the research of Lewis and another professor. In the end, Lewis was granted tenure, but agreed to resign from the faculty. Thanks to [2]F.I.R.E. for alerting me to this story. References 1. http://kalapanapundit.blogspot.com/2007/07/tenure-shrugged-why-john-lewis-left.html 2. http://www.thefire.com/ _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
