Words but not deeds? Religious university breaks promise on academic freedom to demote professor, e

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 Words but not deeds? Religious university breaks promise on academic freedom to demote professor, endorse book-banning

By Alex Morey January 15, 2019

Faculty at Franciscan University of Steubenville shouldn’t count on academic freedom — even though the school explicitly promises it.

That’s the troubling takeaway from recent events at the Catholic college in Ohio, where the university’s president announced last week that he would revise the school’s policy on academic freedom to allow book-banning.

The announcement that the updated policy would ban the “use of scandalous materials” comes in the wake of intense backlash against the school for defending a professor who assigned Emmanuel Carrère’s “The Kingdom” to an upper-level English class. Professor Stephen Lewis’ choice to assign the book, which describes The Virgin Mary in sexually explicit terms, was picked up by Catholic news outlet Church Militant, which condemned the material as “pornographic” and “blasphemous.”

https://www.thefire.org/words-but-not-deeds-religious-university-breaks-promise-on-academic-freedom-to-demote-professor-endorse-book-banning/