Dem Dry Bones: Can Academic Freedom Live Again at My Religious University?

By Dr. Gregory Schulz

Gregory Schulz

An abbreviated version was published

May 16th on The Federalist. —ed.

Dem Dry Bones: Can Academic Freedom Live Again at My Religious University?

Today’s academic landscape is littered with the dry bones of academic freedom – desiccated and disjointed bones. This is true of the landscape at my own religious university, Concordia University Wisconsin (CUW), from which I have been suspended and put under threat of termination for publishing an academic essay. My essay brings to light the adulterous affair with Woke / Social Justice / Marxist ideology on the part of the Interim Administration (Admin), the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents (BoR), and various professors and staff at my Lutheran Christian university, most notably in the publicly posted desires of the BoR’s search for a new university president who “believes in and is committed to inclusion and equity” as well as “diversity in all its myriad forms.” In other words, for a president who supports or is willi…