September 28, 2007

Some Evangelicals Find the Campus Climate Chilly — but Is That About Faith, or Politics?

By THOMAS BARTLETT

He thought he had a good chance. Last year Mike S. Adams, an associate professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, applied for a promotion to full professor. He had been at the university for 13 years. In that time, he had published 10 peer-reviewed papers and won three teaching awards. Not that there weren't bumps along the way, but his record, he believed, was better than most.

So when he was turned down, Mr. Adams started asking questions. The