User:Academicfreedom

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First of all, Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, FL should be called Liberty University Junior and mysteriously has a deceptive name similar to Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL.

The Pharmacy school was formerly controlled and manipulated by a husband and wife team who subscribed--along with most administrators--to a fundamentalist view of Protestant Christianity and the majority of the "influencers" of the school belong to a mega church called Christ Fellowship. When the Dean stepped down, his position was open and his wife had a faculty meeting where she told the faculty that the Holy Spirit told her to be the Dean. When the majority of the faculty opposed her appointment by the Provost, the Provost met with the faculty ... he stated, "I haven't prepared anything so I am going to just be led by the Spirit. You guys are a mess ...." Here was the breakdown. Provost with an EdD who came from Pat Robertson's school. Faculty= Ph.D.s, M.D.s and PharmDs from across the nation.

The faculty was and still are, forced by school policy to integrate faith into their lectures. They are also supposed to be "examples" by the fundies definition of being good. A faculty member who reported an administrator for harassment was suddenly walked off campus one day by security and her office was emptied ... I mean emptied in boxes the very next day!!!! Another professor kept teaching students about human evolution and was moved from a corner executive office to an adjunct office the size of a broom closet. He posted posters of human migration out of Africa along with his publications. His position was "dissolved" by the Provost right after a visit by the financiers of the pharmacy school.

If you have a hard time explaining the genetics of a virgin giving birth to a son who has a Y chromosome this isn't your place.

If you don't like the administration downloading your facebook photos and snooping on you ... not your place.

If you feel it is against the law to single out women who became pregnant out of wedlock ... not your place. And this was reported to the Department of Education due to a pharmacy student who was singled out for "getting pregnant out of wedlock."

If you believe in academic freedom ... LOL.

If you understand that graduate education is more than board score performance and memorization ... not your place.

The rest is history and would make a hilarious book!!!

