Zooze the Horse roams around the pasture near Lamar State College. Zooze thinks about problems in academia. Zhe wants proffies to submit posts (blog posts, not fence posts).
Monday, July 15, 2019
Friday, July 12, 2019
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Christian School Fires Professor for Writing Novel With Un-Christian Characters [patheos.com]
The flava:
This spring, T.J. Martinson received a job offer to teach English at Olivet Nazarene University, a religious school outside Chicago where he, his parents, and his grandparents all attended. No doubt he was excited about the opportunity as a newly minted Ph.D.
But last month, before even stepping foot in a classroom, Martinson was told he was fired. All because of a novel he published in March called The Reign of the Kingfisher. (A novel, mind you. Not a memoir or a work of non-fiction or anything else that suggests his own beliefs.)
The article:
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/11/christian-school-fires-professor-for-writing-novel-with-un-christian-characters/
This spring, T.J. Martinson received a job offer to teach English at Olivet Nazarene University, a religious school outside Chicago where he, his parents, and his grandparents all attended. No doubt he was excited about the opportunity as a newly minted Ph.D.
But last month, before even stepping foot in a classroom, Martinson was told he was fired. All because of a novel he published in March called The Reign of the Kingfisher. (A novel, mind you. Not a memoir or a work of non-fiction or anything else that suggests his own beliefs.)
The article:
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/11/christian-school-fires-professor-for-writing-novel-with-un-christian-characters/
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
A former admission officer at the University of Pennsylvania speaks.
"I certainly was not struck by any sense that I'm sitting before a genius. Certainly not a super genius."
--James Nolan
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2019/07/09/trump-overstated-academic-record-report-says