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.

I did see that they don't allow alcohol at any university function on or off campus

At Tulane, the rule was no alcohol at university functions to which undergrads were invited. So at the undergrad math seminars, there would be a reception afterwards with soda and cookies, but for the grad seminars (which I went to a bunch of my junior and senior years, even though I technically was not invited) the reception was wine and cheese. That rule went into place in the middle of my freshman year, and the French department, which always had wine after their seminars, was just furious.

Stinkin' libruls.

My father, who used to eat only iceberg lettuce in his salads, has started eating arugula whenever my mom buys it, to show his solidarity with the arugula-eating elitist liberals.

Oh my god. They're a major health care institution in that region, which just squicks me out so much worse.

Our head of IT, E, who is super smart, funny, politically astute and whom I adore, was (not)married to one of my colleagues for seven or eight years. Not married because they're both men of course. (They since divorced, which is the term R used when he told me what was going on.)

I was look at E's bio for something where we needed to identify everyone's degrees and he went to...Bob Jones University.

It's been like two years since this happened and I still haven't wrapped my mind around that one.