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"Some college administrators seem so distracted with fund raising, academic infighting, and community initiatives that they set up their emergency communications departments very poorly. Training is poor to nonexistent, secretaries are pressed into service with tremendous responsibilities for running 'notification systems' 24/7 and on weekends because no one else knows how to do it and the administration won’t pay for additional staff. Procedures are seat-of-the-pants and dependent on HIPPO (highest paid person’s opinion), except when something like Virginia Tech happens and there is some sort of scramble to do something different." --Donna
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May 23, 2006
Professors Revive Academic-Freedom Lawsuit Against Louisiana College
Academic freedom is at the heart of a longstanding dispute between Louisiana College and four of its professors. The professors first sued the Christian liberal-arts college in 1995, accusing officials there of spreading rumors about them (The Chronicle, December 13, 1996). The college’s Board of Trustees later issued a written apology to the professors (The Chronicle, March 27, 1998).
The professors, however, are now renewing that lawsuit, according to an article in The Town Talk, a local newspaper. They say the administration has, in essence, banned books they seek to assign to their students. One example is M. Scott Peck’s best-selling The Road Less Traveled, a self-help book and personal meditation that argues, among other things, that “our unconscious is God.”
In recent years, the college got in trouble with its regional accreditor over a textbook-review policy that the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools regarded as a violation of academic freedom (The Chronicle, December 4, 2003). But the college rescinded the policy after the accreditor put it on probation (The Chronicle, March 17, 2005).
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