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Stephanie Wiechmann
Julie Moore has been the director of Taylor University's Writing Center and an associate professor of English since 2017. But her contract is not being renewed for next year. Moore says she's been using texts from multicultural authors in her college composition course, asking students to read and write about them. In telling her story to a religious scholar, Moore said that in line with the school's multicultural philosophy statement.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
I'd avoid political discussions about policy debate, allowing students to choose such topics for the research page papers later if they were interested in doing so.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Moore says she received a positive contract review in 2021, and by Taylor's procedures, her contract wouldn't be reviewed again for seven years. But in January and February of this year, Moore says a new university provost called her composition class a sociology of race class and said her contract wasn't being renewed. She publicized details of those discussions this week.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Taylor President Michael Lindsay and Provost Jewerl Maxwell previously served in leadership roles at Gordon College in Massachusetts, also a private Christian school. While there, Lindsay, as college president, navigated a five year legal battle with a former professor who said she was denied a promotion for publicly supporting LGBT students and colleagues. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case on whether the professor was considered a minister, which would apply different employment rules.

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Gordon College settled with that professor. Taylor has confirmed that Moore's annual contract is not being renewed, and says its policy is not to comment on the specifics of personnel matters. In Muncie. Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.