Inside Higher Ed: Academic Freedom, Christian Context
March 2, 2009
Academic freedom at religious institutions has always been a vexed and complex subject. Many religious colleges assert that they have academic freedom, while also requiring professors to sign statements of faith in which they subscribe to a certain worldview — and there is not necessarily a public attempt to reconcile these principles.
One evangelical Christian college has tried to change the conversation – reframing limitations on inquiry implied by signing a statement of faith, for instance, as opportunities.
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