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I couldn\u2019t help but reflect on Brigham Young University as I read it.<\/p>\n
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I think that we fall somewhere between the two \u201cideal types\u201d sketched by Professor Helfand. \u00a0We don\u2019t require faculty to sign on to a creed or a statement of faith, although all candidates chosen for prospective hiring are interviewed by a General Authority before the University is permitted to hire them. \u00a0We do hire non-Mormons; during the entirety of my years teaching at BYU, I\u2019ve always worked with at least a few non-LDS colleagues. \u00a0On the other hand, I\u2019m not sure that we\u2019re particularly eager to increase religious diversity among our faculty. \u00a0We\u2019re simply willing to do it, up to a point, and happy to include such colleagues and their perspectives, so long as they\u2019re not opposed to the University\u2019s mission, in campus life. \u00a0They serve in important administrative roles, offer prayers in department and other University meetings, deliver campus-wide forum and devotional addresses, receive University awards, hold endowed chairs, and so forth.<\/p>\n
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BYU isn\u2019t spectacularly diverse in terms of religious viewpoints among faculty and students. \u00a0But I would argue that, in itself, it represents a contribution to the diversity of higher education in America. \u00a0As do such schools as Yeshiva University, Baylor University, and the University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n
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