RIP Les Paul. Thank you for your audio inventions, and your music genius.

A few at universities where I can't work because I'm the wrong religion.

Really? Ones that are über-religious and wouldn't hire you? Or just you wouldn't feel comfy? I'm just curious.

Really? Ones that are über-religious and wouldn't hire you? Or just you wouldn't feel comfy? I'm just curious.

Baylor posted a bunch of job openings. Faculty there have to agree to uphold the Christian mission of the college, and they ask job applicants their religion and how involved they are in their church and take that into consideration when making hiring decisions.

Faculty there have to agree to uphold the Christian mission of the college, and they ask job applicants their religion and how involved they are in their church and take that into consideration when making hiring decisions.

Really? How interesting. I wonder how out-there you can be in naming which "church" you're involved in, and how much they take that into consideration. I mean, if there's one person who has better academic creds, but is a Presbyterian, vs. another person who has slightly lesser creds, but is a ...something they like better? I mean...??? Are Catholics on the "straight to hell" express, there?

• SO* not something I get. I mean, yeah, technically I went to a Catholic college, but (a) it was Jesuits, and (b) they do still have some crazy funky rules, but technically their hiring policy involves nondiscrimination not only in religion but even in sexual orientation!

They're Baptist. Part of their mission statement is

Baylor encourages all of its students to cultivate their capacity to think critically, to assess information from a Christian perspective, to arrive at informed and reasoned conclusions, and to become lifelong learners.

I don't think I could teach students to "assess information from a Christian perspective."

Their non-discrimination policy states about twenty times that, as a religious institution, they are exempt from the non-discrimination rules covering religion.

"Baylor hires only Christians and Jews.... the school gives hiring preference to Baptists first, followed by other Protestant evangelicals, then other Protestants, other Christians, and lastly Jews.": [link]

Baylor recruitment policy: [link]

Oh, and their policy on sexual misconduct forbids

sexual abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault, incest, adultery, fornication and homosexual acts.

Still, they allow men and women on the same side of the street. Stinkin' libruls.

Oh wow. Interesting how they rank people! Thanks amych. I'm so intrigued. I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, I guess--as a private Baptist place, if that's their thing, that's their thing (...I think if you want someone to teach math, limiting them by religion may not get you the best math teacher, but...up to you when you choose to do that and go there, etc).

(I did see that they don't allow alcohol at any university function on or off campus, and you're not supposed to put your affiliation, as a professor, to any "partisan" stuff you write, but somehow I"m guessing that rule is bent more for one side than the other. I'm just guessing.)

There are some schools that require faculty to sign a Statement of Christian Faith.