Yesterday we commented on Timothy Larson’s Inside Higher Ed article on how he, as a chair of search committees, answers the questions of rejected job candidates at Wheaton College. It was a helpful and informative article.
This morning at Cliopatria, Ralph Luker links to Larson’s article and reminds of us another reason why Wheaton might say “no” to job candidates.
Timothy Larsen, “Why We Said No,” IHE, 16 February, explains why you were not hired despite your superlative qualifications. Larsen is a historian who holds an endowed chair in biblical and theological studies at evangelical Wheaton College. He makes no reference to the statement of belief to which faculty members must adhere nor to the experience of his former colleague, Joshua Hochschild, who was fired five years ago for converting to Roman Catholicism. Wheaton’s clearly within its legal rights, Tim, but that could have something to do with “why we said no.”
I am not sure what Luker’s agenda is behind his post, or why he has decided to pick on Wheaton, but he makes a fair point.
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