When the University of the Cumberlands expelled a student last week because he is gay, officials at the Kentucky institution probably didn’t realize that they were jeopardizing their chances of opening a new pharmacy school. But according to an article in today’s Lexington Herald-Leader, the university’s antigay policy conflicts with a nondiscrimination requirement of the accreditor for pharmacy schools, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.
The university’s decision to kick out the student (The Chronicle, April 8) has also created a squall of controversy in the Kentucky legislature, which had appropriated $11-million to create the pharmacy school. The dispute sparked a war of words between the Republican sponsor of the pharmacy project and a Democratic critic.
