![]() Alison Downie, an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, who earlier this year became a target of right-wing media and other attacks when a student publicly accused her of unfairly disciplining him for expressing his opinions (" How a Student Got Kicked Out of Class - and Became a Conservative Hero," May 31). Sightings invited Dr. Religion Professors Become Flashpoint in Campus Culture WarsĮditor's Note: Last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the story of Dr. Gushee tells her story and the story of the current climate. ![]() In this essay David Gushee, currently President of the American Academy of Religion tells the story of a professor who got caught up in the culture wars, brought on by a conservative student who took his beef to the alt-right media, causing her great mental and emotional harm. Anyway, it appears that the culture wars are making the educational experience increasingly fraught with danger. I did have my share of students who didn't like my theology or my teaching style, but this was before the advent of social media. After all, I had a PhD from an evangelical institution. I was on the left end, but I didn't think I was that far left. “Instead of being the purveyor of your ideology, you can be an educator.Having been asked to resign from my one and only full-time teaching position, due to the fact that I was perceived to be too liberal for the institution. “When you see that kind of misuse of intellectual power, you want to be the person that comes back and does it responsibly and with morals,” said Ingle. Ingle told Fox he plans on becoming a professor one day, one who does not abuse his “intellectual power.” Ingle will not be able to graduate in May if the board sides with Downie. I brought up the fact that biologists don’t agree that there’s more than two genders and I said the wage gap she’s referring to – 77 cents on the dollar – that even The New York Times debunked that.”Īn AIB hearing over the matter was held on Friday the ruling is expected for March 19. ![]() “My professor pretty much just tried to shut me up because she was just letting women speak. “You can’t say that anecdotal evidence is fact,” Ingle objected. ![]() ![]() The IUP student claims Downie has exhibited “overall abuse” in the classroom, “indoctrinating” students and refusing to hear, let alone teach, dissenting views. She booted Ingle from her class for his WrongThink and “referred him to the public university’s Academic Integrity Board (AIB),” reports Fox. This did not sit well with the feminist professor. When no women spoke up, Ingle says he challenged the notion that there are more than two genders and explained that even The New York Times has debunked the myth stating the “gender wage gap” is caused by sexism. The TED Talk speaker was a transgender ex-pastor named Paula Stone Williams who discussed “the ‘reality’ of ‘mansplaining,’ ‘sexism from men,’ and ‘male privilege.'”ĭownie first asked only the women in the class to share their thoughts on the subject matter. Lake Ingle, a religious studies major at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, was kicked out of Professor Alison Downie’s Christianity class on February 28 for telling her that “biologists don’t agree that there’s more than two genders” and that the supposedly sexism-caused 23-cent “gender wage gap” is a myth.Īccording to a report from Fox News, Ingle was “silenced and punished” by Professor Downie after the senior pushed back on arguments made in a 15-min TED Talk she showed to the class. In the current year, it’s apparently permissible to ban a student from a class on Christianity for expressing inconvenient truths to a feminist professor. ![]()
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