International Middle East Media Center: Chicago Professor Fired for Allowing Questions about Judaism and Islam
I am Douglas Giles, an adjunct professor who was fired for allowing students to speak in a World Religions class at Roosevelt University, Chicago. I have taught college philosophy, ethics, and religion since 1998. I believe that students deserve the opportunity to learn divergent viewpoints and make up their own minds.
As such, I welcome questions and allow students to share their opinions and experiences as discussion is absolutely crucial to quality education. Roosevelt University’s Chair of the Department of History, Art History and Philosophy, Susan Weininger is an art history professor who has never taught religion or philosophy. Other than the the interview in which she hired me in December 2003, she and I had not spoken before a series of phone calls she placed to me at my home in September 2005.
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