September 8, 2006

Baylor Professors Criticize Denial of Tenure to Conservative Colleague; Indiana Community-College Figure Will Retire; Professor Is Islamic Society's First Female President

STILL FIGHTING: An already divisive controversy over a tenure denial at Baylor University appears to be getting even uglier.

Last spring Francis J. Beckwith, 45, an associate professor of church-state studies, was denied tenure despite a long list of publications and a recent teaching honor. Some saw the professor as a casualty in a battle between conservatives and liberals at the Baptist university. Now Mr. Beckwith is alleging that the former chairman of his department, who resigned

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