College loses 1/3 of faculty

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<p>Conservative College Confronts Staff Exodus</p>

<p>By Adelle M. Banks
Religion News Service</p>

<p>WASHINGTON – A Christian college focused on shaping home-schooled students for careers in public service will lose about one-third of its faculty after several professors at the young school charged their academic freedoms were violated. </p>

<p>Administrators at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., which opened in 2000, called the professors’ claims “patently, categorically false” and said the school’s vision for classical liberal arts remains intact.</p>

<p>“Contrary to insinuations by departing faculty, PHC has been, and remains, zealously committed to a rigorous study and debate of all ideas, and all schools of thought, as the success of our students in every realm of the public square dutifully attests,” the college said in a Saturday (May 20) press release. </p>

<p>Departing faculty, on the other hand, say administrators have questioned their adherence to the Bible in writings and class discussions. </p>

<p>“It comes down to a number of issues – academic freedom, due process and antagonism to the Reformed faith,” said David C. Noe, an assistant professor of classics. Noe and four other faculty decided during the spring semester that they would not return to the college in the fall. </p>

<p>Noe, who was hired in 2000, will be a visiting professor at the University of Iowa. </p>

<p>The school’s mission is to “prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values.”</p>

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<p>Not any place I’d like to go to school!</p>

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<p>It is funny that profs who knew what kind of school this place was STILL found it unworkable…I am SURE they will get new teachers (who don’t care about having opinions or stretching peoples brains) but what the money and a place in heaven</p>

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<p>NPR did a fascinating and lengthy piece on this school. The stated goal of its president is to assert “Christian dominion” over the US government and hence the rest of US society. Under the current Republican administration and congress the school has successfully placed more students in high-profile governnment interships in Washington than any other college. Georgetown was a distant second. All part of the effort to plant the seeds of their coming “dominion.”</p>

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<p>Would that be a “New Dominion” or simply extension of the current one?</p>

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<p>Why do they need faculty when they’ve got the Bible? ;)</p>

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<p>To make sure the students interpret it the Right way of course!</p>

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<p>Yeah, there are my fav passages like, “Happy are they that take babies’ heads and smash them against the rocks.”</p>

<p>Actually, though, happy doesn’t mean “happy” - more like “content”; babies don’t mean “babies”, it could be “children” or “Democrats”, heads don’t meant “heads”, it could mean any upper appendage or livers; “smash” doesn’t necessarily mean “smash”, it could mean “smoosh”, and “rocks” is usually interpreted to mean “Tupperware”.</p>

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<p>“The stated goal of its president is to assert “Christian dominion” over the US government and hence the rest of US society.”</p>

<p>“Under the current Republican administration and congress the school has successfully placed more students in high-profile governnment interships in Washington than any other college.”</p>

<p>Not to worry. Once the Dems take back Washington, most of those Pat Henry internships will disappear. In other words, “Fudgad about id!”</p>

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<p>and apparently the only ethics that count are biblical ones</p>

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<p>“Content are they that take Democrats’ appendages and smoosh them against Tupperware.”</p>

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<p>They view the current one as merely an encouraging start. </p>

<p>Their goal, according to the piece, is to basically do away with this “separation of church and state” nonsense and instead vigorously assert that the US is a Christian nation. And as such, Christian theology would be the overt guiding force of the culture and government. Non-Christians, such as Jews, Muslims, atheists, etc., wouldn’t be directly forced to pack up and leave, but they must be content to live in a Christian culture and under a Christian government without complaining or trying to assert any rights that Christians don’t like.</p>

<p>And not any old sort of Christianity would be welcome either - it’s planned that fundamentalist, Protestant, inerrant-Bible, Christians will be running the show and calling the shots. Other Christians, such as Catholics, Mormons, or Eastern Orthodox Christians, would be just as unwelcome and marginalized as atheists and Jews.</p>

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<p>You Dominionists are freaking nutballs.</p>

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<p>This here Methodist wouldn’t be so welcome, either, I can promise you.</p>

<p>Wonder what Thomas (I cut up the New Testament to make it an ethics lesson not a fundamentalist tract) Jefferson would think of all this!</p>

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<p>Didn’t they figure on losing some faculty due to the Rapture, anyway?</p>

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<p>religion trying to weasel its way into government.</p>

<p>lovely.</p>

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<p>An interesting video about PHC… scary at the thought of it…</p>

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<p>They lose 4 professors, and that’s one third of the faculty? Either they have a wopping big student:faculty ratio, or not many students. I mean, how many students can 12 faculty serve?</p>

<p>Looks like us heathens may still be safe for a few more years?</p>

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<p>The student body at PHC is tiny, much smaller than most high schools.</p>

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<p>The New Yorker ran an article a couple years ago–
<a href=“http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050627fa_fact[/url]”>http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/050627fa_fact&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;