{"id":156,"date":"2006-04-12T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/?p=156"},"modified":"2006-04-12T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T22:34:00","slug":"former-unlv-philosophy-prof-denied-tenure-for-being-too-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/former-unlv-philosophy-prof-denied-tenure-for-being-too-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UNLV Philosophy Prof. Denied Tenure for Being Too Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned that Dr. Francis Beckwith, one of my favorite philosophy professors here at UNLV when I was an undergraduate and an affable and prolific scholar, has been denied tenure at Baylor University. From the published accounts so far, it looks like Beckwith&#8217;s open support of a pro-life, pro-intelligent design position is what did him in, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">despite<\/span> the fact that he has a stellar publication and teaching record. The tenure committee was apparently stacked against him by some influential Baylor professors and alumni who were hostile to Beckwith&#8217;s views. In my opinion, this is a serious error on Baylor&#8217;s part and, as might be expected, is drawing considerable negative press (see, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/articles\/11731\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/?p=215\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9583\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbcbaptistpress.org\/bpnews.asp?ID=22949\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/Articles\/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21923\">here<\/a>). The case is currently under appeal. Hopefully, Baylor will reverse the judgment and give Beckwith the tenure he cleary deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned that Dr. Francis Beckwith, one of my favorite philosophy professors here at UNLV when I was an undergraduate and an affable and prolific scholar, has been denied tenure at Baylor University. From the published accounts so far, it looks like Beckwith&#8217;s open support of a pro-life, pro-intelligent design position is what did\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/former-unlv-philosophy-prof-denied-tenure-for-being-too-conservative\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}